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Alexander The Great, Nancy Spungen, and Lee Harvey Oswald?

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:55 am
by Davros
Apparently, what those three have in common is a posthumous conversion to Mormonism.

http://famousdeadmormons.com/index.php

Apparently, George Carlin and Bettie Page did too.
I just find this very,very strange.

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:11 am
by Bigshankhank
Alex converted to religion that wouldn't exist until how many hundreds of years after his death?
By comparison it makes it make sense about Carlin, though.

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:27 am
by Sisyphus
They are also three people that have never been in my kitchen.

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:38 am
by Beemer Dan
This is one of the things that really grinds my gears about religion. It's one thing to make up a bunch of stories in an attempt to create metaphors to better understand the human condition and attempt to create harmony in society with common goals and interests. In many ways that is what makes fiction, and science fiction in particular so compelling and provocative. It's an entirely different thing to actually take these made up bits of fiction and accept them as literal truth, and then use them to coerce and condemn others via some absurd and illogical game. Shit like this makes me want to move to Denmark. :x

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:13 pm
by Beemer Dan
Sisyphus wrote:They are also three people that have never been in my kitchen.
You should invite Dozer over and ask him to bring the good stuff. You'll have Alexander the Great cooking you up waffles in no time!

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:17 pm
by Sisyphus
^ I did enough of that in the late 80's-early 90's. More than enough, probably :mrgreen:

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:12 pm
by rolly
It is strange. I can sort of see claiming admirable people to make make your brand look good, but Nancy? Who's making this list anyway?

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 4:32 pm
by Davros
rolly wrote:It is strange. I can sort of see claiming admirable people to make make your brand look good, but Nancy? Who's making this list anyway?
There are quite a few strippers on it as well

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 4:54 pm
by DerGolgo
So is Joe Stalin.
I also read a while back that Adolf Hitler get's to go to Mormon Heaven, also.

Religion is dumb, but this is powerful stupid.
As to what they did to Mr. Sagan, that's just insulting the dead.

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 5:00 pm
by calamari kid
Beemer Dan wrote:... Shit like this makes me want to move to Denmark. :x
No good, they're already there. http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/5 ... nmark.html

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 5:26 pm
by Sisyphus
Every little tiny dot of an island across the South Pacific has fallen before their trickery. And they're all a-tithing away, too. Fucking disgusting, what it is.
As if the Christian missionaries didn't do enough damage.

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:12 pm
by Ames
A friend of mine recently explained this practice to me. Mormons are heavily into genealogy for a reason; they look up their family history and baptize the dead who weren't Mormons so that they can have as much of their family as possible in the afterlife. Perhaps these individuals were related to someone who was doing their lineage.

That being said, I still think religion is fucking stupid.

Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:36 am
by Sisyphus
I wonder if Jeffrey Dahmer or JW Gacey made the list!

Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:22 pm
by Zer0
Shit piss fuck suck that motherfucking Carlin cocksucker is in any Mormon heaven.

Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:28 pm
by Zer0
calamari kid wrote:
Beemer Dan wrote:... Shit like this makes me want to move to Denmark. :x
No good, they're already there. http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/5 ... nmark.html
I re,member when I was a little kid visiting my Grandparents in Germany and getting a Mormon knock on their door, and this was no big city, a little burg in the Bavarian Alps. They're everywhere.

Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:16 pm
by Davros
Sisyphus wrote:I wonder if Jeffrey Dahmer or JW Gacey made the list!
http://famousdeadmormons.com/index.php?id=25

Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:13 pm
by motorpsycho67
Ames wrote: religion is fucking stupid.

^

Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:06 pm
by xtian
Zer0 wrote:
calamari kid wrote:
Beemer Dan wrote:... Shit like this makes me want to move to Denmark. :x
No good, they're already there. http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/5 ... nmark.html
I re,member when I was a little kid visiting my Grandparents in Germany and getting a Mormon knock on their door, and this was no big city, a little burg in the Bavarian Alps. They're everywhere.
I had two very pink juicy young pretty double braids wearing smiling girls ringing on my door yesterday. Turned out they just wanted to invite me on a lecture on how jesus will stop us destroying the universe. very disappointing.