It’s rare that you see a Mormon come out and say this so directly. Typically they will go on about how wonderful it is, beautiful and edifying, it’s about linking families together.“DCP” wrote: Sanctuaries such as the still relatively new Rome Italy Temple exist in order to ensure that the scenario envisioned by Dante in his “Inferno,” wherein good and even great people are barred from heaven by the mere fact that they (inescapably) lacked Christian baptism, does not in fact occur.
Here Dan puts it in black and white. The line between eternal damnation and salvation is a bunch of children dunking themselves in a 10 million dollar bathtub. Repeating names of people who may or may not have ever existed.
There is a completely arbitrary rule that must be satisfied by this Mormon baptism ritual. Keep in mind that there are endless ways you could imagine this “problem” being solved differently. Baptism in the afterlife, for example. Or God sending someone down to save everyone with a perfect vicarious sacrifice. How about the words “I baptize you in the name of Jesus Christ for everyone who is dead, amen.”
It’s just silly. So, so incredibly silly.
