On Posthumous Mormon Conversion

I should preface this by saying that the Mormon custom of posthumously baptizing various "heathen" types, like Jewish holocaust victims, is weird in the extreme and kind of sick. Moreover, it's patently offensive, in the strict sense; it sends a clear message of "y'all are inferior and need our help," and there's every reason to find that message kind of offensive. And the All Dead Mormons Are Now Gay thing is bloody brilliant; these sickos deserve every little bit of messing-with we can give them, both for the weird posthumous conversion thing and for their general homophobia.

But I personally, as a strong atheist, find that the whole thing is just not a big deal. The people in question are dead. It doesn't, and can't, matter to them, because they're dead! It's just a bunch of lunatics dancing around in funny patterns and chanting absurd phrases in dark rooms in Utah. It's a nothing. Absolutely nothing about the universe, or the well-being of the dead persons in question, changes because of these absurd/obscene little rituals. You can't posthumously convert someone to Mormonism, because religious adherence requires a living mind to do the adhering. The Mormon Church can write down Anne Frank's name in a list of Mormons somewhere, but so what? That doesn't actually matter one tiny little bit.

Like I said, that doesn't change the fact that they're what I can only justly refer to as sick fucks for doing this, or the fact that it is offensive and should be considered offensive. But aside from the offensiveness thing, this isn't some big terror they're inflicting upon the world. It's just their own little insanity in their own little world.