Understanding The LDS faith could reduce the criticism

The criticism is not about faith, rather it about the critics trying to interfere in a particular religion.

Please, let us be reasonable, and let’s see how someone’s name may appear for baptism under the conditions accused by the critics.

First, the LDS church does not pick who will be baptized or who will not be. So stating that someone was baptized again by the LDS church is showing the lack of understanding that such critics have of the LDS Church. Yes, even most members do not know how to avoid duplicating work. They just have no idea that the work is being duplicated.

Also, if a person has a deceased relative for whom he or she wants to do vicarious work, that person is not going to see if the critics approve.

Again, baptism duplicity has occurred even when names are not in the critics watch list. There is a lot of work in clearing-up the mess too. So insinuating that the LDS Church is being less than honest, is a calculated insult. The church constantly advises people to recheck names and sources, to avoid duplicating work.

However, the people practicing their faith and trying to help deceased relatives are normally not professional genealogists. Thus they are not always able to clear every obstacle to see if someone’s vicarious work has already been done.

Names and places appear in history where the researcher sometimes may thing of being in one area, but actually being in another. Many people appear with the same names, and from areas with the geographic similarities. Also, a deceased person may have different relatives independently trying to do the same work for their ancestors. In most instances they don’t know each other. Thus, they end-up duplicating work. That is precisely the reason that the LDS church has spent lots of money trying to help people in avoiding duplications.

As far as mentioning that the vicarious work was done in a Temple in the Dominican Republic is insinuating that the church is trying to hide and continue to do something contrary to what they say. Well, the reality of such work is that in many cases, the people who submit their relatives’ names are unable to do such work, or they just submit their relatives’ names expecting volunteers to finish such work. That is why a name may appear in areas that may not be near their relatives, or not near where the name was submitted.

But, the bottom line is: Spirits are free to choose. There in no one there forcing spirits to accept or reject vicarious work. The issue appears to be that those who are anti-religion or anti-LDS, are trying to restrict the practice religious freedom.

Actually, if critics are so concerned about spirits or about dead people, could it be that such critics actually know that spirits do live waiting for the resurrection? It appears so. Otherwise the critics would let each person practice their religion as they choose. It is the critics who are trying to dictate what a dead person/spirit can or cannot have.

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Reference to:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/mormons-posthumous-baptism-anne-frank_n_1292102.html

Mormon Baptism Targets Anne Frank – Again

IRAN Saying - Israel's Collapse

Reference to: The Washington Post

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MY TAKE

Anxiety

Does that means, Iran is eager to be attacked by Israel. Iran has repeatedly stated that Israel must be wiped-out. Iran’s comments sound like Saddam Hussein’s “The mother of all battles” which translated to the mother of all defeats. Iran sounds like it is trying to finish what Hitler started; the problem is that: This time the Jews have teeth.

Granted, the selected people of God, according to the bible, are going with the same tendencies that they had before Nebuchadnezzar destroy Jerusalem. So the Ayatollah thinks that he can play god. But, even Nebuchadnezzar did have consideration for the Jews.

If the Ayatollah and the Mullahs think that they have the authority to kill and eradicate the people whom so many tried to wipe off the earth before, than they need to read the bible again. They do read the bible. Times have changed, and the bible does give an account of what will happen.

Despite Israel’s mundaneness there is much more freedom in Israel that the Iranians or the Persians ever had. Freedom is what the Ayatollahs fear--people being able to think for themselves, therefore being able to choose. Choice is what makes us human beings.

ROMNEY Forcing Higher Retirement Age?

My TAKE

Mitt Romney has a lot of courage, but is it honesty? The government instituted Social Security not as a handout, but as garnished money from US workers. As it is, some organizations that were able to have private retirement, have done better than the government forced retirement. It shows that the government is a poor manager of its citizen’s money.

Now, comes Romney and wants to force a change on the contract for the worse. Romney’s enforcement will affect those who worked all their lives in the hope of being able to eat when they can’t find a job because of age. Romney now wants those people to suffer even more—that is breach of contract.

Many poor people have had layoffs as part of their lives, especially after shutdowns—some of us count up to 5 direct shutdowns. Those of us who have had to choose between being cold and putting food on the table, are the folks who will be forced to pay for Mr. Millionaire Romney’s election promises. Unless, he plans not following through with it.

Romney already forced the poor people in Massachusetts to choose between paying for forced health-care, or buying food for the table. Now, he wants to make the entire US population suffer even more; by increments, the sneaky way.

We normally can’t find people over 60 working in Mr. Millionaire Romney’s stores. Which means that Romney’s stores—SAPLES, don’t hire the people whom Mr. Romney wants to forbid in getting what the government had promised—retirement at 65.

Romney has not suggested cutting government salaries or adjusting it to national average. In some cases government employees are paid more than in the private sector. How about an across-the-board cut? It is taxpayers’ money, Mr. Romney.

Please Mr. Romney, try to see what it is like to be poor. Go to an unemployment line and borrow a man’s resume from anyone over 50, and use it yourself under the other guy’s conditions. Then, you can see what you are trying to do, to those who worked all their lives at a disadvantage. Perhaps, then, you can understand what it is to be poor, and then being robbed by the government too, as you are proposing.
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In Reference to:
DAVID ESPO, AP article at --

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jTUl0cCza-peaS7XCIPp0tujb6Tw?docId=1ed5b0fd1c014eab9f9cf916bcc10cbb