This Should be wrong..................

Question

I am a girl who was born and raised in the LDS church or Mormon as others might call it. I am 19yrs old and for a Little over a year now I have been inactive for many reasons. The family I grew up in wasn't what you would consider a typical LDS family. My mom is a LDS convert and my dad is not a member. Also my mother is the only member in her family and there are none in my fathers. My siblings are currently active members although they are much younger than I. My parents separated a while ago and my mom moved us to Utah (we are from California) My dad still lives there. She is just recently getting remarried in the temple and I just recently told her that I am making the decision to get my name taken off there records, which is kind of like excommunicating your self from the church since I don't want anything to do with the religion. She is very upset about it and then told me that she would just make it so that when i passed away they could re baptize me so she wouldn't worry about it. which is a process they do called " baptism for the dead" Im so upset by that cause i dont want to be a member now and I dont want to be one when im dead, I think thats wrong that they even do such a thing, how could you take someone who has there own belifs and when they die change them. Thats so selfish of the church. I knew a family who baptize a lady who was a devoed Cathloic woman into a mormon as soon as she died. I know your dead and it shouldnt matter but i almost feel a person has certian rights even when there dead and if they die a certain religoin that they should just respect that. I mean you dont see people taking organs from a dead body if there not an organ donor, just cause there dead dosent mean you can. There are so many things that go on that are just wrong. I wanted to get an opinion on what you might think of this and also if you have any reason why you might not be a member or why you might have left the church.

*** Please I dont wanna hear why you are a member of the church or some testimony,I personally dont care I was rasied a member and went threw 4 years of seminary I know about the church. I even dedicated the Temple in Newport Beach when it opened. I sat inside while it was being dedicated to be exact so I know that point of veiw and i dont care to hear about it............

Answer 1

You cant be baptize after death and be saved. Once your dead your dead, yet your spirit is much alive.

And as it is appointed unto man once to die once, but after this the judgement.  Hebrews 9:27

I dont want your soul to be lost so please stay in contact with me if you need to. No one deserves or should go to h**l. Im not a mormon. I am Apostolic and have seen God work wonders. Leaving a church is a big mistake because without God we are nothing.

Answer 2

It's a very long question you post.

But these are the traditions and rituals men and women worship, and it gets people into such useless problems! It's totally without worth and completely useless.

So yes, it is wrong to be useless.

It's all very stupid. I would just ignore it because it is all man-made rituals and traditions and therefore baloney.

Answer 3

I believe you should do exactly what you want to do with this situation.  I was a member of a church at one time where the pastor loved to preach about "if anyone leaves this church he/she is of Satan".  I told him that his words were his condemnation and that I was leaving because of Him and his false teaching.  I left.

Answer 4

You could apply to colleges in California and go live with your dad.  Tell him this religion stuff is driving you up the wall, and you really would like a chance to get away from it.  

You will most likely outlive your mother, so don't pay her any mind in regards to post-mortem baptism.  I agree with you that it's wrong to perform it, but some people only have respect for their own belief system and not anyone else's - that's too bad for them.  

Answer 5

Geez, some people never give up, do they?

Of course she's wrong to do this.

But, considering that it's likely that you'll live another 60-90 years and (I assume) that you aren't going to tell the church when you die, I doubt if they'll ever be able to put it into practice.

So I wouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about it.