Question for Mormons: Explain your practice of 'sealing' the departed?

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Johnny Lingo…Man, that brings back memories… I do have a question that I’ve been kicking around: Is the magisterium much different from the CES? I kinda see similarities
 
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Not Johnny Lingo!!!
Steph:)
 
batman1973 said:
Johnny Lingo…Man, that brings back memories… I do have a question that I’ve been kicking around: Is the magisterium much different from the CES? I kinda see similarities
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The CES must be the 70 old guys who claim they’re living gods in Utah. Am I right?
 
Another former Mormon here…

Lived in the heart of Mormondom (Provo) for over a decade too.
 
HonoraDominum said:
Me too.

And a lot of us have been Mormons, and not just “I converted for a year and then came back to the Catholic church” ex-Mos, but TBM, multi-generational, Seminary-attending, CTR ring-wearing, mission-serving, Endowment-receiving, scripture chase-winning, Young Women’s Medallion-earning, funeral potatoes-baking, Saturday’s Warrior-performing, “Book of Mormon between you”-dancing, “Johnny Lingo”-watching Mormons. Most of us are simply defending this board from the lies spread by those deceived by the wickedness and snares of the devil with very “Spay-shul” Utah brethren accents. We know how fast a person can fall for the lies, and we refuse to sit here and let them be smeared without vigorously defending the truth which we have found.

Also? All the Ten Cow Women in the house say HEEEY! :whackadoo:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wquQc8cXQ...Sl4bvraWwI/s400/A-scene-from-Johnny-Lingo.jpg
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Oyyyy…All the reminders made me shiver…

I dont regret my years as a Mormon though. No ill-will either.

It’s just that Mormonism, at it’s very core and foundational doctrines, are in profound and grave error…

No reason to stay when you realize that… 🙂
 
TexanKnight said:
Yes…Johnny Lingo…

and how about I’ll Build You a Rainbow
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D’oh! Don’t know that one. I remember “My Turn On Earth” though. That play alone makes me terrified for a Mitt Romney presidency.
 
HonoraDominum said:
Me too.

And a lot of us have been Mormons, and not just “I converted for a year and then came back to the Catholic church” ex-Mos, but TBM, multi-generational, Seminary-attending, CTR ring-wearing, mission-serving, Endowment-receiving, scripture chase-winning, Young Women’s Medallion-earning, funeral potatoes-baking, Saturday’s Warrior-performing, “Book of Mormon between you”-dancing, “Johnny Lingo”-watching Mormons. Most of us are simply defending this board from the lies spread by those deceived by the wickedness and snares of the devil with very “Spay-shul” Utah brethren accents. We know how fast a person can fall for the lies, and we refuse to sit here and let them be smeared without vigorously defending the truth which we have found.

Also? All the Ten Cow Women in the house say HEEEY! :whackadoo:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wquQc8cXQ...Sl4bvraWwI/s400/A-scene-from-Johnny-Lingo.jpg
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Have you posted your conversion story somewhere here? I would love to read it.
 
Marie5890 said:
Another former Mormon here…

Lived in the heart of Mormondom (Provo) for over a decade too.
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I’ve already asked HonoraDominum and now I ask you. Have you posted your story here or any where?

I would love to read it.

I have gone to the ex-Mormons sites and so many have become agnostic or atheist. How did you become Catholic?
 
StephenKent said:
I have noticed on these boards that it is about 98% Roman Catholics speaking to 98% Roman Catholics. Although the topics are directed at asking a question about the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, if anyone who is a Latter-day Saint answers a question, the response is personal attack and vituperation.

The statistics about the town Tremelo actually work against the poster. Even if the town had only 1,000 inhabitants, that is much more than sufficient for two or three or fourt families with the same surname to have a child named Joseph. Take the little hamlet of Tasso in the community of Lumarzo in the province of Genova in Liguria region of Italy. In 1840, the population was approximately 400 people. Yet between 1820 and 1850, thre were nineteen marriages of men with the Ferrera surname. Eight children named Giuseppe (Joseph) were born to those families. Four of them were grouped in the period from 1827 to 1831. Someone researching in American records could easily have an ancestor named Giuseppe Ferrera who is said in the 1860 census to be age 29, in the 1870 census to be age 42, in the 1880 census to be age 50 and in the 1900 census to be age 62 (this happens). And his 1902 obituary could say he was at the time of death age 62. None of the births occurs in 1830. No American record names his parents. An inexperienced researcher might just pick one of the four and be done with the research. Joseph is a very, very common name. Multiply that small population to make it a town of 13,000 and you can see what the difficulty is with your statistical analysis.

But beyond that. There indeed are people who have submitted names inappropriately and did so on purpose. I once saw in the database the name “Mickey Mouse.” I reported it and it was deleted. Non-Mormons have in the past had the ability to enter the database and submit names. Some Latter-day Saints have violated the Church’s expressly and repeatedly stated conditions that names be well researched and that extractions of names (such as extractions of names of Holocaust victims) not be submitted.

When you’re talking about millions upon millions of names, there obviously are going to be hundreds and even thousands of violations, giving posters near endless opportunity to complain. And you’re right about Ancestry.com (which is probably contributed to by Latter-day Saints to the tune of perhaps 2% of what it has in its databases, if that): lots of people invent names. A popular one, just like “Mrs. De Veuster,” is to take a man at the end of someone’s research line (let’s call him “John Doe”) and conclude that, obviously, he had a wife (else, there would have been no child), name her “Mrs. Doe.” That’s done a lot in genealogical “research.” That works its way into some of the “research” done by some Latter-day Saints.

What I see going on in these threads is (1) post a topic about something to do with the Latter-day Saints; (2) condemn the practice or doctrine; and (3) if someone who is Latter-day Saint posts anything in response to the question, bash the poster, too.
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I’m sorry, but I don’t think I’ve noticed where anyone has “bashed” the poster.

I also haven’t seen any “personal attacks”.

Perhaps I have overlooked them, could you please link to them?

Remember, telling the truth, and pointing out error is not “bashing”. It is merely telling the truth, or pointing out the error.

The whole “I’m being persecuted” card has been played way to many times here at CAF to be taken seriously.

I’m just sayin…🤷
 
I’ll Build You a Rainbow was a filmstrip about a mother who dies
 
This sealing thread has been pretty colorful…

What I need clarifiied…how did the Mormons get sacramental records anyway? Who allowed this? The Catholic pastor???
 
tundramom said:
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Not Johnny Lingo!!!
Steph:)
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I remember, when I first watched Johnny Lingo back in 1979, that it was a sweet story but rather concescending toward Pacific islanders; sort of like the movies white people made about black people in the 1950s.

Now that I am married to a Pacific islander, it seems even more silly.

I also saw two productions of “Saturday’s Warrior”. Pure schmaltz.
 
LOL! Wow. This is hilarious. I’m another who used to be a handcart-pullin’, Johnny Lingo-watching, sacrament-takin’, tithe-payin’, temple-attendin’, seminary graduatin’, mission-a-goin’ Mormon of multi-generational pioneer and polygamous ancestry (the latter on my dad’s mom’s side). Johnny Lingo, My Turn on Earth, Saturday’s Warrior. I know all of them. I have the song My Turn on Earth running through my head right now and it won’t leave! Dang you to heck, Lex de Azevedo! :mad: How many of you former Mormons remember the BYU made for tv movie called “The Sacrifice” about the dad who lets his boy get run over by a train filled with people rather than derail the train to save his boy? They showed that to us in seminary and sunday school to help us understand the meaning of the Atonement and how Heavenly Father must have felt. Pure manipulative, emotional drivel and analogically wrong on so many levels. I got to watch quite a few of those manipulative films in school and seminary. That’s right, in school, too. I first saw Johnny Lingo in sixth grade in the school library. Plymouth Elementary, on the corner of 53rd South and Canal Road in Taylorsville. This is really bringing back Mormon memories. Did any of you participate in stake road shows??? Is that even done anymore?
 
NewSeeker said:
How many of you former Mormons remember the BYU made for tv movie called “The Sacrifice” about the dad who lets his boy get run over by a train filled with people rather than derail the train to save his boy? They showed that to us in seminary and sunday school to help us understand the meaning of the Atonement and how Heavenly Father must have felt. Pure manipulative, emotional drivel and analogically wrong on so many levels. I got to watch quite a few of those manipulative films in school and seminary.
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:eek: I grew up mostly Nazarene rather than Mormon, but I had to study that story in school (no movie to go with it, thank God.) It is so very wrong. Atonement is a fruitless divine accident caused by ignorance and carelessness on the job? I’ve heard other bad analogies, but that’s one of the worst.
(sorry, off topic. I’ll leave you alone now.)
 
Has Mormon Cultist even bothered to answer the OP? Which was his quote to begin with?
 
KathleenGee said:
This sealing thread has been pretty colorful…

What I need clarifiied…how did the Mormons get sacramental records anyway? Who allowed this? The Catholic pastor???
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Im not positive but I do believe there was a time when, with not knowing the WHY Mormons were asking to see the records, many pastors let them.

Not positive though.

Also, it is fair to point out that many individual Mormons do have ancestors who were Catholic, or Anglican, Lutheran, etc etc, also do their own personal research into their families (I took a course at BYU in how to do research).
 
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