God, when you're a member of their church, they want a picture of you for their records...now when you're dead, they want pictures of you too!
They can have fun finding my carcass. I will not only be cremated, but part of me will go into Lake Michigan, and the rest of me will be dumped off the coast of my native Maine.
Safely far away from the Morridor, basking in the element ruled by Satan.
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I don't have a problem with what they are doing, although I prefer FindAGrave.com . It's preserving pictures of headstones that will eventually be unreadable.
Yes, I understand their motives (keeping Mormon youth busy, which I don't agree with), but that doesn't change the end result, which is preservation.
Just like a broken clock is right twice a day, even a Cult does an occasional good thing, even if it is for ulterior motives. People put up gravestones for a reason, they want to remember their relatives. If you don't want someone photographing yours, and preserving it, then make sure that one isn't put up for you by your relatives.
Billions of Graves is used by anyone doing genealogy (although FindAGrave has many more records), of which there are more non-Mormon genealogists than there are Mormon ones, so this isn't just a Mormon thing.
Preserving headstones that will be unreadable is one thing. But I wonder if the church is gathering names for dead-dunking in all those temples they've built? Gotta keep the worker bees busy and paying tithes.
Talked to my brother recently. We are both in our 50s and want to be cremated.
Smartphone cemetery activity is for the youth. They also get baptized for the dead and enjoy funeral potatoes. Maybe they should call their religion Morbidism.
I'm the recipient of photos of graves of family that I did not know were part of my history. (And no, they were not Mormons nor did Mormons take the photos.)
This is a long, long tradition for families in many countries. Also there was a tradition of taking photos of the deceased either in the coffin, or dressed up with other family members.
I'm fine with taking photos of grave markers, etc.
This has nothing to do with anyone's religion.
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greengooblygook Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It has become a church class activity for the > youth now. Sounds like a creepy date idea too
Yes. But that is only a small % of people who do that kind of work in the Genealogy Field which is huge. I don't care who does it, it needs to be done. That's my point and my view.
No. I'm sorry. Weird. "Let's send teenagers out to take grave pictures!" Not historical, not crumbling. All of them! A BILLION graves. It's all busy work to get information so these same teens can do more busy work getting dead-dunked for the people under the sod (most of whom have already "had their work done."). FamilySearch.dot.org is a cover for this "activity". I'm not so weirded out that they do the BFD, because it makes no difference to the dead, but because it's a cult activity!
I'll bet they get kicked out of more than one cemetery...
I wouldn't be surprised if they get kicked out of cemeteries since this is different than putting flags on military graves to remember what those people did to really serve the country. For Mormons, everything is about religion, as it provides busy work to keep people from thinking for themselves because free thought is dangerous and leads to apostacy.