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(Gawker) Strange Mitt Romney converted his atheist father-in-law to Mormonism after his death. Take that, Atheists   (gawker.com) divider line 194
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2012-01-27 02:09:49 PM
This is how Mormons cook the books.
 
2012-01-27 02:12:30 PM
Well, his father-in-law didn't bother complaining. Probably because he'd already resigned himself as much as possible to the idiot his daughter married, so that nothing was going to surprise him at that point.
 
2012-01-27 02:14:14 PM
Mormons have been converting the dead to Mormonism for ages. They're not exactly picky, either. Wait till they get to heaven and see all those people drinking coffee.
 
2012-01-27 02:17:05 PM
That's okay, many Jews who died in the holocaust also happily converted to Mormonism.
 
2012-01-27 02:24:22 PM
Grave desecration by proxy.
 
2012-01-27 02:32:32 PM
True story - a friend was a Mormon Bishop, great guy. He told me about 'the book of the dead' and how Mormons salvage those stranded in the afterlife.

I told him, cool - then I can slack on this picking a god to go with thing and just wait for the Mormons to save me later.

He agreed this was a solid plan.

I can die in peace, thank you Book of Mormon!

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2012-01-27 02:35:00 PM
DarkJohnson: fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net

I'm reading that book right the hell now if it's gonna give me a 12' vertical.
 
2012-01-27 02:40:34 PM
kingoomieiii: DarkJohnson: fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net

I'm reading that book right the hell now if it's gonna give me a 12' vertical.


It won't; they actually dropped that guy from a building, he's about to crash.
 
2012-01-27 02:42:54 PM
You have to hand it to the Romneys, that's a pretty tough "get." I mean, the dude is dead and you STILL got him to agree to convert to Mormonism? I'm impressed, Mitt Romney. That's some seriously persuasive rhetoric you've got there.
 
2012-01-27 02:43:33 PM
That's really f'n creepy.
 
2012-01-27 02:45:14 PM
Mormons were also asked repeatedly not to do that by Holocaust memorial concerns, yet they kept it up.
 
2012-01-27 02:48:59 PM
Marcus Aurelius: Mormons have been converting the dead to Mormonism for ages. They're not exactly picky, either. Wait till they get to heaven and see all those people drinking coffee.

So instead of going door to door, do they go grave to grave?
 
2012-01-27 02:55:49 PM
The Onion is prophetic: kingoomieiii: DarkJohnson: fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net

I'm reading that book right the hell now if it's gonna give me a 12' vertical.

It won't; they actually dropped that guy from a building, he's about to crash.


What are they, scientologists?
 
2012-01-27 02:56:11 PM
So, all of those ballots from the deceased in SC -- Mormons?
 
2012-01-27 03:05:34 PM
Marcus Aurelius: Mormons have been converting the dead to Mormonism for ages. They're not exactly picky, either. Wait till they get to heaven and see all those people drinking coffee.

Book of Mormon II: We Should Be More Choosy.


/Even the property values near the Pearly Gates are plummeting.
//Yet another divine revelation.
 
2012-01-27 03:07:59 PM
Does this mean that when the zombie apocalypse arrives, most of them will be Mormons? I doubt Mormons are allowed to eat sweet, delicious BRAINS so that's actually a good thing. We'll just have a lot of hungry, frustrated zombies milling about trying to convert any non-Mormon zombies.
 
2012-01-27 03:08:05 PM
Just what is the conversion rate between an atheist and a mormon?
 
2012-01-27 03:15:25 PM
Osomatic: Marcus Aurelius: Mormons have been converting the dead to Mormonism for ages. They're not exactly picky, either. Wait till they get to heaven and see all those people drinking coffee.

So instead of going door to door, do they go grave to grave?


I know I'm replying to myself here but I'm pretty amused at the mental image of two young guys in white shirts and skinny black ties and badges that say "Elder Such-and-Such" walking through a graveyard, knocking on gravestones. "Great, another one pretending not to be home. I *know* he's in there."
 
2012-01-27 03:16:45 PM
Oh Yeah? Well I'm gonna convert his ass right back to atheism!!

Oh, wait...atheists aren't stupid cultists.

Never mind.
 
2012-01-27 03:21:40 PM
DarkJohnson: True story - a friend was a Mormon Bishop, great guy. He told me about 'the book of the dead' and how Mormons salvage those stranded in the afterlife.

I told him, cool - then I can slack on this picking a god to go with thing and just wait for the Mormons to save me later.

He agreed this was a solid plan.

I can die in peace, thank you Book of Mormon!

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I heartily endorse this plan. Back to the hookers and blow!
 
2012-01-27 03:32:09 PM
Does this mean I'm become a Mormon when I die?
 
2012-01-27 03:35:12 PM
WTF Indeed: Does this mean I'm become a Mormon when I die?

Do you know any Mormons? If so, yeah, they'll probably convert you.
 
2012-01-27 03:36:11 PM
WTF Indeed: Does this mean I'm become a Mormon when I die?

You accidentally a Morman.
 
2012-01-27 03:36:53 PM
The Onion is prophetic: WTF Indeed: Does this mean I'm become a Mormon when I die?

You accidentally a Morman.


Er, Mormon... you'd think that having been one for the first 18 years of my life, I would've remembered how to to spell it. >
 
2012-01-27 03:37:15 PM
Perhaps when I become a Mormon I'll learn proper grammar, spelling, and sentence structure.
 
2012-01-27 03:37:28 PM
A bunch of people should just keep coming up to Romney at events and tell him that they're going to have him baptized as different religions after he dies. See if he ends up blowing a gasket.
 
2012-01-27 03:38:17 PM
The Onion is prophetic: You accidentally a Morman.

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2012-01-27 03:45:06 PM
GAT_00: WTF Indeed: Does this mean I'm become a Mormon when I die?

Do you know any Mormons? If so, yeah, they'll probably convert you.


It's posthumous religion rape! Yay!

You know, I know it doesn't matter what they do, it's all hogwash. But you have to wonder what the Mormons are thinking. Like, do they think they're fooling God? "Oh sure, he never actually *said* he accepts the Book of Mormon, but after he died we're going to pretend that he did say that. We're pretty sure You'll go for it, Oh All-Knowing Lord."
 
2012-01-27 03:50:43 PM
cameroncrazy1984: A bunch of people should just keep coming up to Romney at events and tell him that they're going to have him baptized as different religions after he dies. See if he ends up blowing a gasket.

Nice idea, but it'll never work. Mitt knows his religion is the only one dumb enough to do this. And anyway even if there are other religions that do it, they're all false.
 
2012-01-27 03:57:02 PM
Yeah, let's put that guy in charge of the nukes.
 
2012-01-27 04:00:52 PM
Osomatic: You have to hand it to the Romneys, that's a pretty tough "get." I mean, the dude is dead and you STILL got him to agree to convert to Mormonism? I'm impressed, Mitt Romney. That's some seriously persuasive rhetoric you've got there.

What news room do you work in?
 
2012-01-27 04:05:26 PM
Osomatic: You know, I know it doesn't matter what they do, it's all hogwash. But you have to wonder what the Mormons are thinking. Like, do they think they're fooling God? "Oh sure, he never actually *said* he accepts the Book of Mormon, but after he died we're going to pretend that he did say that. We're pretty sure You'll go for it, Oh All-Knowing Lord."

Its their solution to one of the biggest problems with religion. "What happens to all of those people who never converted to religion X because it either didn't exist when they were alive or because they were never exposed to that particular religion."

If you're Christian, you just have to assume that God said "fark you" to a good chunk of the population simply because they didn't live near the Holy Land, or missionaries didn't get around to their part of the world for nearly 2,000 years.

The Mormon's have a much more elegant system. God realizes its not the dead's fault they were alive prior to the Book of Mormon, so it becomes the mission of modern day Mormon's to find all their relatives and save them.
 
2012-01-27 04:09:05 PM
Mormons are farking nuts.
 
2012-01-27 04:12:30 PM
 
2012-01-27 04:28:26 PM
Lionel Mandrake: Oh Yeah? Well I'm gonna convert his ass right back to atheism!!

Oh, wait...atheists aren't stupid cultists.

Never mind.


Well, being dead he no longer has the capacity for belief, therefore he cannot believe in God and is an atheist. Reasoned into atheism.
 
2012-01-27 04:33:44 PM
Wait, so Mitt Romney died? So we're dealing with some kind of zombie Romney now?

I'm scared :(
 
2012-01-27 04:33:54 PM
Jake Havechek: That's okay, many Jews who died in the holocaust also happily converted to Mormonism.

Also, Hilter. Link (new window)
 
2012-01-27 04:34:26 PM
If any Mormons would like to say some dumb words about me after I'm dead and pretend I've gotten a brain, Mormans, they're welcome to do so. Joke's on them
 
2012-01-27 04:34:26 PM
Is this the thread where we pretend Mormonism is more ridiculous than any other religion?
 
2012-01-27 04:35:08 PM
"But when Mitt began seeing Davies' daughter Ann, the Romney family launched a concerted effort to convert not only Ann but her entire family to Mormonism. And they were wildly successful: Within a year of meeting Ann, Mitt and his father had converted all three of Edward Davies' children."

Amazing what people can be motivated to do when they're marrying into a family with hundreds of millions of daughters. Glad to see Mittens married into a pack of whores.
 
2012-01-27 04:35:18 PM
CPennypacker: Is this the thread where we pretend Mormonism is more ridiculous than any other religion?

Be fair, other religions don't try to pad their score like this.
 
2012-01-27 04:35:20 PM
This has actually got me really creeped out, because my uncle, (my dad's brother) his wife and their kids, and their kids' spouses and children are all Mormons, and I don't know how to stress to them that if any of them do this to my parents when they die, I'm going to break my foot off in their asses. My parents are Catholic, and they take their faith seriously. While I don't agree with their religious views, I won't have my dad's brother and his farked up family taking something away from them that means as much to them as it does. Yes, they'll be dead so they won't know and/or care, but I'll know and I'll care.

Are there any lawyers here on Fark (no GEDs in Law, please) that can shed some light on this; can I sue these cockgobblers for emotional distress or something?
 
2012-01-27 04:35:30 PM
That happens to me and there's some hauntin'.
 
2012-01-27 04:35:41 PM
This shiat is farked up.

It's one thing to believe in your religion, it's another to force it on someone else even if they are dead. It's not right.
 
2012-01-27 04:36:41 PM
Thank You Black Jesus!: That happens to me and there's some hauntin'.

Meh, I'll just give them bad weather and maybe try for some earthquakes if they try to build a temple near where I end up.
 
2012-01-27 04:36:54 PM
Can't convert the living? Kill 'em off, then convert them when they're dead.
 
2012-01-27 04:37:27 PM
A Dark Evil Omen: CPennypacker: Is this the thread where we pretend Mormonism is more ridiculous than any other religion?

Be fair, other religions don't try to pad their score like this.


What does that score get them?
 
2012-01-27 04:37:31 PM
I heard that for his father-in-law's funeral, they just strapped the coffin to the roof of their station wagon and drove it right to the cemetery.
'm not sure what the liquid was running down the windows, but it grossed the kids out, and Mitt hosed the coffin and the car down at a car wash, on the way there.
 
2012-01-27 04:37:37 PM
Osomatic: You know, I know it doesn't matter what they do, it's all hogwash. But you have to wonder what the Mormons are thinking. Like, do they think they're fooling God? "Oh sure, he never actually *said* he accepts the Book of Mormon, but after he died we're going to pretend that he did say that. We're pretty sure You'll go for it, Oh All-Knowing Lord."

Yeah, how exactly does that work?
 
2012-01-27 04:37:48 PM
If you don't want to be posthumously converted, do something heinous so that they don't want you.
 
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