Slog - Comments on Today in Mormon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon Pleasant Grove City*, in Utah, is going to court because a crazy-ass religion wants to put up a tribute to their religion in a P.G.City park. Could the crazy-ass religion be Mormonism? Why, no: it's the Summum faith: In 2003, the president of the Summum church wrote to the mayor here with a proposal: the church wanted to erect a monument inscribed with the Seven Aphorisms in the city park, “similar in size and nature” to the one devoted to the Ten Commandments. Summums believe Moses delivered the Seven Aphorisms around the same time he came out with the Ten... Copyright 2008 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:00:00 -0800 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:44:14 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by flamingbanjo As long as they agree to erect a monument to the core principles of the Jedi Faith, I'm cool with it.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202211 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202211 Religion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:04:21 -0800 Comment by Jonathan Golob The posthumous baptizing of Holocaust victims really irritates me. It just feels like a willful distortion of history, declaring people who were killed for being Jewish Mormon in a database of record.

The only retaliation I can figure out is posthumously baptizing Mormons as adherents of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

]]> Jonathan Golob http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202237 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202237 Religion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:15:51 -0800 Comment by rococo I would object to publicly displaying any monument that abuses the semicolon that badly - do we want our children growing up thinking it's okay to just throw punctuation around at random?

]]> rococo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202248 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202248 Religion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:22:29 -0800 Comment by Lucky @3 - I know! What if my kid sees two semicolons holding hands or kissing in the park. I'll have to explain *punctuation* to him!

]]> Lucky http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202254 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202254 Religion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:24:54 -0800 Comment by Original Monique I had to participate in 1 baptism for the dead when I was growing up. It was creepy and I hated it.

They baptize everyone, not just holocaust survivors. The people I was "baptizing" were from the 1700's i think. They were probably Catholic or something. Can you imagine if their actually *was* an afterlife, and some Catholic dude is chilling and then POOF the motherfucker gets sent to hell cause some 12 year old mormon "baptized" him. HAHAHA

Ok fuck, in that senario at least it's funny

]]> Original Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202268 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202268 Religion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:31:55 -0800 Comment by Vince A statue of Zeus would satisfy me.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202270 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202270 Religion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:32:22 -0800 Comment by Original Monique I had to participate in 1 baptism for the dead when I was growing up. It was creepy and I hated it.

They baptize everyone, not just holocaust survivors. The people I was "baptizing" were from the 1700's i think. They were probably Catholic or something. Can you imagine if their actually *was* an afterlife, and some Catholic dude is chilling and then POOF the motherfucker gets sent to hell cause some 12 year old mormon "baptized" him. HAHAHA

Ok fuck, in that senario at least it's funny

]]> Original Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202271 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202271 Religion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:32:26 -0800 Comment by Balt-O-Matt I knew next to nothing about the Mormons until I recently watched that South Park episode about Mormonism. Holy smokes; that's one crazy religion. For reals.

]]> Balt-O-Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202275 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202275 Religion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:35:29 -0800 Comment by paulette But wait, so String Theory really is just another religion. Crap. Now I can't be an atheist?

]]> paulette http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202289 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202289 Religion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:42:49 -0800 Comment by Vince Wait. A hot, sexy Zeus. Nude. Throwing a bolt of lightening. Sexy lightening. Hmmmm. I need to get laid.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202358 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202358 Religion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:17:22 -0800 Comment by E @2 - The Mormons are also accused in the NYT article of baptizing deceased Catholics. Probably any other people whose names appear on some birth records somewhere are at some point vulnerable to this posthumous 'conversion' to the Mormon faith. Is this the underlying reason for the Mormons' obsession with preserving genealogical records?

]]> E http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202386 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202386 Religion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:34:17 -0800 Comment by Joseph Peila hey, so we all are trying to run a campaign against mormons I hear. How bout jamming there "chat line"

I found on of all places Huffpost.com

http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/ask-a-question/chat-live

also, you can call them too.. oh fun!
1-888-537-6600

]]> Joseph Peila http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202402 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202402 Religion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:46:01 -0800 Comment by Miles Those Summum aphorism sound pretty right on to me, except maybe the last one, depending how you interpret it.

]]> Miles http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202458 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202458 Religion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:25:24 -0800 Comment by Greg I like the idea of posthumously baptizing Mormons as gay.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202475 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/today_in_mormon#c1202475 Religion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:44:14 -0800