kaylali

Nobody REQUIRES you to do geneology work if you are mormon. how funny! however it is encouraged, and how interesting to learn about your history and where your family comes from and such, what a neat thing regaurdless of whether you are mormon or not. Doing our heirs temple work is more of an honor and a gift to that person, and doesnt change anything about who that person was while they were here on earth. That person still has the free agency to accept or deny the gospel in heaven. The mormon church doesnt force you to do anything. quote=Lap_dancer;459549]I can't speak for a Mormon person not being one. I can tell you the foundation for their church is not what I would call my cup of tea. I know the person they believe to be a prophet was Joseph Smith and he was the foundation for the religion. He was something like 14 years old at the time. He "found" gold tablets in the woods. I can't get mad at people who believe in a religion. I can get upset at someone for altering historical documents to suit their need. I do know the Mormons have a HUGE archive of geneology and they require when you convert that you begin your family geneology at some point. Documenting history is wonderful but I wonder WHO is allowing someone to alter their heir's religion???? Just because THEY change it doesn't make it so.

This just seems so sad that you sat through an entire tv episode and only walked away from it with the weird things about the mormon beliefs. You have to remember that this tv episode was depicted from a man who is not even mormon, and many of his interveiws were done with x mormons, so of course they arnt going to be all happy and positive. One thing about the mormon church is that it is not a church of conveinence, it does not change all the rules just to make people happy, however people have their free agency to choose to obey or not obey. nobody is forcing anyone to do anything. This church and its beleifs are so great even though all of its members may not be.