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If Mitt Romney wants to be President should voters know Mitt Romney's philosophy about baptizing dead people?

Some of you have said we don't need to know Mitt Romney's personal views about his religion. But I think this is a fairly basic one. The Mormons actually perform rituals to baptize people who are dead. Does Mitt Romney think it is a sensible thing to do? If a baby is miscarried should the baby be baptized? If the baby is stillborn and hasn't got a name? What if the pregnancy terminates after a couple of weeks? Do the Mormons baptize embryos? If not then why not?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    If Mitt Romney wants to be President should voters know Mitt Romney's philosophy about baptizing dead people?

    ~~~ Anyone who believes all that happy crappy has no business playing with anything sharp, much less being in ANY position of power! (Think junior 'Bush'!)

    No one with the power of 'critical thought' ('good thing') (philosophy) would ever 'believe' such crappola!

    You have been warned!

    Besides, what with the name; Mitt?!? Whats that short for? That can't be it, can it? Mitt?! Really?

    Isn't that a baseball game item of leather in which balls are caught and grabbed?

    President? What have you been smoking?!?

  • j p
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    1 decade ago

    The Mormons have been preforming proxy baptisms (baptizing living people for and in behalf of dead people, we don't actually baptize the dead person) since the 1800's. Mitt Romney is also not the first Mormon presidential candidate to be taken seriously.

    We don't believe in the pedobaptism (baptism of children), baptisms only need to be preformed on people who are old enough to commit sins. Jesus himself wasn't baptized as a baby he wasn't baptized until he began his ministry at age 30. If a baby is miscarried/stillborn/aborted/died in the first year of life, it doesn't need to be baptized.

    Mitt Romney's religious stance on baptism doesn't have any more bearing than Kennedy's stance did. Yeah, Kennedy was the first Catholic president and it was a big deal because all the other presidents were protestant. Obama apparently changed his religion because his pastor wasn't a good person to be associated with politically. So acting like baptisms for the dead is problem for a president is showing as much ignorance as those who are still demanding to see the birth certificate of their muslim president half-way through his term.

  • 1 decade ago

    Mitt's religion has rituals they believe will help the souls of the dead.

    Obama throws tax dollars in the air & believes this will breath life back into the economy.

    Almost everyone has an 'odd' belief, the question is which affect your wallet.

  • 1 decade ago

    Baptizing a corpse? funny.

    Edit: on the subject of Obama, he's shown inconsistency in his religious affiliation. He can't play all three Monotheistic religions and expect to get away with apostasy without punishment.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Catholics believe that unbaptized, or unchristened, babies that die go into limbo. The Mormons just figured a workaround to avoid that.

    Why are people's answers about Obama?

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