Romney's family baptized his atheist father-in-law as Mormon -- 14 months after the man's death

[lafemmefatalle]

I like 90% of what you to, TYT... but this one, while true, was over the top insensitive. I think you could have simply pointed out the facts without ad hominem attacks.

(I'm a former mormon who participated in "Baptisms for the dead". I know whereof I speak. I no longer agree or believe, but I respect my family members who do)

[macgeek2004]

@lafemmefatalle No offense, but am I supposed to "respect" the beliefs of those who believe in nonsensical horseshit, such as Young Earth Creationism OR MAGIC UNDERWEAR, that is patently AND *DEMONSTRABLY* false AND RETARDED/RACIST/IGNORANT????

No, fuck that shit. You may have the right to believe what you want to believe, but you also have the right to keep such beliefs private...OR public, and if you make it public, then I also have the right to respond by making fun of you for it!AND I WILL!

[macgeek2004]

Hey now! Let's not forget the time the Mormon Church had acquired records of the Nazi Final Solution and were baptizing all the millions of Holocaust victims from Judaism into Mormonism! lol, yet another one of "Mormon's Greatest Hits"! ;~D lol

[MrBoggles]

your right. There is no faith or belief involved in atheisim.

Religious ideas are purely emotion acting without the benefit of intellect.

And it's sad that people like that are out there.

[baldurus1]

WTF is a devout Atheist???

How in hell can you be a devout Atheist?

Atheism isn't a religion, it's not a belief.

[deepashtray]

I wonder if it involved a postmortem circumcision?

[dangerouslytalented]

They think they can get away with baptising dead atheists? WE CAN DEBAPTISE THEM. Starting with Romney's dad and going all the way to JOSEPH FREAKING SMITH.

[yoltmb]

Abuse of a corpse is a crime in most states.

[DAVETtheathiesT]

More christian idiocy...

[migasfiesta]

hahaha actually I am mormom, and yes the church baptize dead people. it is much simple than you may think, it is not any crazy ritualor anything but I understand your criticism if you are not part of it. do you know what's might make it even crazier I am black hahaha

[chiefdancingostriche]

this is crazy. how crazy would it be if it wasn't true???

[iKaraamba]

@MartinTimothy1 COOL STORY BRO! The colonists could have all been hanged for their treason against great britain... But wait they weren't so... Woah this story is pointless just like yours!

[MartinTimothy1]

Brigham Young and the entire Mormon hierarchy would have been hanged in 1857, had the Mountain Meadows Massacre been prosecuted to its fullest potential!

One hundred and forty California bound Arkansas men and women, were slaughtered under a flag of truce, after Mormons decked out as Indians attacked their wagons

BY received livestock and property looted from the wagons, his adopted son Mormon Bishop John D Lee, was the single Mormon executed by firing squad in 1877, twenty yrs after the event

[flubno]

Did they dig him up ?

[fraughtonaround]

@flubno It's baptism by proxy.

[markustheantitheist]

@fraughtonaround Baptism by proxy? What the? Its interesting that you thought it was cool to type, "It's baptism by proxy." And not give any explanation as to what that is. Thats ok. I looked it up. From what I understand, baptism by proxy only aplies to deceased individuals who gave prior consent to receive baptism by proxy after death. I know he's dead and doesn't give a shit, but perhaps because he is dead this unconsensual baptism seems all the more pervasive and disgusting.

[Peezster]

@markustheantitheist

That's what most people say when they dont understand something,

[markustheantitheist]

@Peezster What don't I understand? Why the religious feel the need to shove their religion down other peoples throats? No, I do understand that. I'm saying its wrong and incredibly disrespectful to perform an unconsensual baptism on a devout atheist. If I have missunderstood what you meant, please clarify. I'd love to hear it.

[fraughtonaround]

@markustheantitheist Sorry, I seriously just thought definition of the word proxy was widely known. I didn't mean to offend anybody.

[markustheantitheist]

@fraughtonaround The word is understood. The phrase "baptism by proxy" is what needed an explanation.

[hotverde15]

@ambiorex actually, mocking religious beliefs would be acceptable in a healthy society. Religion poisons everything.

[acmilanboi]

Just when you thought the religious nuts couldn't get any nuttier.

[logicologist]

Actually not too surprising. Mormons "baptize" EVERYONE that has died. It is their thing... crazy, I know, & the entire reason for their temples. They call it baptisms for the dead. And actually no one has to be there. Most of the time no ones knows who the person was. In case you ever wondered "why mormons are so into genealogy"... walla! This is why. They believe the second coming will happen once everyone that has ever lived has finally been baptized! Very dumb and kooky!

[ambiorex]

but feel free to mock my grammar. ;)

[ambiorex]

bishop voodoo thing? crazy or not, mocking peoples religious beliefs are not cool.

[dhebert111]

I`m starting to think Cenk has something against Coco puffs.

[MTVVH1sucks]

this is crazy 

[LastBref]

Cenk, for fucks sake, STOP CALLING YOURSELF AN AGNOSTIC. You are an atheist. Own up to it, goddamnit.

[Terastas]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that Muslim tradition states that the soul (for lack of a better word) hibernates in the grave until it's time for everyone to go to Heaven, so baptizing the dead might be a serious problem for them.

Everyone else, however, should absolutely point and laugh at this just as Cenk did. "You want to baptize my corpse? Pfft! Sure, I'm not using it anymore." :p

[Alhazem1]

@Terastas Once you leave this world, your gone and no baptism nor conversion to anything is meaningful.

[the1tigglet]

religious people give me gas.

[nvieira100]

Oh I can see it now. Romney wants to be president to baptize all non-mormons in the states who've died and as they die. He will then proclaim the US a mormon nation, force everyone to wear voodoo underwear,to protect them from muslims. He will then proclaim the whitehouse as the Dome of DC where his profit, Numbnuts No Brains, first got his vision of an American Jesus. America is doomed.

[SirGomez81]

voodoo, lol

[elitemathlete]

Cant you atheists be happy for one's soul, just once!

sheesh.

[310Sole]

thumbnail for this vid is funny. the look on Cenk's face...

[aluisious]

Baptizing people doesn't do a damn thing while they're alive, either.

[wulfgarpl]

i hate when Cenk after agreeing with atheist immediately says he isn't atheist, he is agnostic. those are two different things. in principle most atheist are agnostics.

[penguinworm]

@wulfgarpl Yep. Atheists need to bring that up more often.

[Platypus2048]

@wulfgarpl He obviously doesn't know what atheist means, it's really annoying.

[eshnajizzle]

"You know how much it's going to do? Not a damn thing."

[TheRepublicOfUngeria]

I hope that Mormonism just happens to be right, because according to the Mormon mythos you get your own planet, because his bad-ass atheist father would probably utilize his planet's resources and open a wormhole to the other plains (apperantly there is a spiritual plain for "do gooders" and another for "naughties") and conquer all the Mormon planets and create an inter-dimensional atheist utopia, that would be fucking hilarious.

[jesushatesyoutoo]

@TheRepublicOfUngeria You don't get a planet unless you are in god standing with the LDS church. You also have to be a white, straight, male to be god of your planet. Mitt has already purchased a very nice planet and many celestial wives with all the money he has given the church. Those baptized after death just get a nice room with no extras.

[fraughtonaround]

@jesushatesyoutoo What are you talking about???? I'm mormon, that is not at all accurate.

[Christheatheist1]

@fraughtonaround -Bullshit! I found MY name in the rolls of those thieving fuckers and had to threaten to sue them to have it taken off. These dishonest pricks use names off headstones at the cemetery to build a voting block. They should be forbidden the vote because of this.

[SuperSpermbank]

**not

[SuperSpermbank]

14 months now 14 years get it right

[BarackMcBush]

@SuperSpermbank He was just as dead either way.

[majormana1]

sad thing given curent canidates obama is the best chocie and has already proved he dosent know what he's doing. The 2 semi decent republicans already got shot in away by own party the 2 that are left are scary im not obama fan but rather have him the romney or girinch as president

[ralyax]

Lol dont judge what you dont know!!!

[matthewtaylorbrown]

Baptism is worthless, baptism of the dead is divide by zero.

[FoxNewzLies]

 The Romulons.

[waswestkan]

Love it. In the event Romney gains the republican nomination, who will the bigots vote for? When the choice is black man or a Mormon. The only way Obama himself can comment on this baptism thing is if Romney, brings up the faith debate, and that isn't likely. However the religious right just may attack Obama from the faith angle,opening it up for the Mormon thing. Stupid & unproductive in the general sense of what is important but chances of it taking place is near %100.

[Stevie68000]

Jew & Coma :

Ex Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon has been coma since 2005.

Note : Still not dead

[Mokenofrs]

the title says years, it was months, someone should fix that error

[GabsBlabsTV]

Cenk, I'm going to baptize you the Holy King of the Flying Spaghetti Monster ... I don't care if you are alive. :)

[HDaviator]

@GabsBlabsTV

All hail the flying spaghetti monster! 

[woodwindvista]

Obama 2012

Glad to be atheist!

[circa81]

@woodwindvista

You know that Obama is a practicing christian, right?

[mrlurp]

Baptism for the dead isn't for the dead, it's so the guilty living can feel all magic inside for what they've done.

[dfg93353]

14 months NOT 14 years. Fix the description BRO!

[Hagar013]

Religion is so pathetic.

[seamoremonster]

Run something on Mitt Romney's involvement with Medicare fraud, Bain Capital and the Damon Corporation? This guy is so crooked he screws his shoes on.

[eBe4IXcept]

I want to see the video of His Holiness Mitt baptizing his dead father-in-law. Does he wear one of those long white hats when he does this stuff?

[AssRapingHorseCock]

This shows how much Mitt Romney will not respect someone else's beliefs AND death. Romney, you are a complete cunt.

[inademv]

@AssRapingHorseCock You know that the Mormon Church has been doing this for a good while now right? There was a BIG stink about it when they had gotten ahold of the lists of Jews killed in the Holocaust and were "baptizing" them in to the Mormon Church.

[AssRapingHorseCock]

@inademv Yes, I know the whole schtick with the Mormon church. It's just that Romney could potentially be the president. And I shudder to think of a president with such little respect for the beliefs and deaths of others... especially his wife's father for fuck sake. Not a president that anybody should want.

[CATSASS1117]

@AssRapingHorseCock Stop posting you worthless twat. Change your name as the rest of us treat your comments with distain. What I feel for you is contempt and distain.

[indignant99]

@CATSASS1117 I disdain your STUPIDITY and your SPELLING. Dumb-quat.

[inademv]

@AssRapingHorseCock The whole practice is pretty silly and personally I just don't care. The fact that he's a Mormon makes the chance he has of actually winning the Presidency almost non-existent because if Obama doesn't attack it, anti-Romney groups certainly will.

[AssRapingHorseCock]

@inademv It is pretty stupid. I just think it's important for us all to note how he's treating other beliefs and the dead. It can be pretty telling.

[fraughtonaround]

@AssRapingHorseCock FYI mormons don't believe the baptism has any effect unless they want it after they are dead.

[CATSASS1117]

@AssRapingHorseCock Just by your name you are a total shit-head. Who gives a shit what you think asshole.

[AssRapingHorseCock]

@CATSASS1117 Worst attempt at trolling I have seen in a while. Good job, champ.

[CATSASS1117]

@AssRapingHorseCock What are you a teenage punk? Grow up or I WILL troll you asswipe. Smarmy lil turd with the very clever name.

[indignant99]

@CATSASS1117 Cat's Ass is a pretty clever name, too.

[ravebritt]

nigger