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-Follow,

one at a time please. i am not really interested in writing a book.


anyway, as for the baptism for the dead stuff. its not really that weird. Mormons, like many Christians, believe you have to be baptized to go to heaven (or the higher orders of heaven for the case of mormons). however, many people die without even having the opportunity to be baptized. the solution is that these people are baptized, by proxy, and they then have the ability to accept or reject the baptism in the afterlife.

its really no more unusual than having a proxy take on the sins of the world so that they may go to heaven. of course, to a hardcore atheist who was never a theist, all Christian dogma looks pretty strange.


also, Joseph smith was a prophet and no he will not be sitting in judgment, though he will probably be aware/present of whatever happens as will everyone else in heaven. at least it is my understanding that everything "written in the book of life" will be made public. which was always disconcerting to me personally, i really value my privacy.