Smile on a dog
The Catholics have joined the Jews in the uproar over the Mormon practice of baptizing non-Mormon folks post mortem. Worse, a tedious letter writing exchange has been playing out in the Tribune.
Once again, from the top: If y'all truly think the LDS version of afterlife is baloney, then who cares what they chant in their temples? It's just another superstition, like stepping on crack will break your mother's back. (It doesn't work. I tried it — a lot.)
No matter what the LDS do with their genealogical files, your ancestors will go on their merry way in Purgatory, being reincarnated as bedbugs, watching over you as shrubs or whatever.
And, of course, if the Mormons are right...
And where's the push to get Sen. Ted Kennedy baptized by proxy — stat?
Once again, from the top: If y'all truly think the LDS version of afterlife is baloney, then who cares what they chant in their temples? It's just another superstition, like stepping on crack will break your mother's back. (It doesn't work. I tried it — a lot.)
No matter what the LDS do with their genealogical files, your ancestors will go on their merry way in Purgatory, being reincarnated as bedbugs, watching over you as shrubs or whatever.
And, of course, if the Mormons are right...
And where's the push to get Sen. Ted Kennedy baptized by proxy — stat?
6 Comments:
I'm a fairly literate 60 year old woman. I collect strange phrases and have lived in many places. I don't understand "smile on a dog" I'm interested only because I plan to add it to my collection.
Glen, you hit the nail right on the head (another strange phrase?). I couldn't agree with you more. If you don't believe in it, what does it matter?
It is a lyric from a song.
It goes something like "Religion is the smile on a dog". It means that just because you want something to happen doesn't mean that it will. The dog reference comes from the idea that dogs smile. Many dogs can pull back their lips to look as if they are smiling but they really aren't.
lone rider
Thanks, I missed that lyric.
Well some folks believe that it has real negative consequences and isn't just "superstition." Some folks, as well, wish to preserve the heritage of their people unbesmirched by revisionists. Some people want victims of death camps to be remembered as Jews and not as converts to some whacked-out 19th-century Satanic cult.
My dog smiles when she's happy and especially when you ask her to smile. Big, toothy smile, and she knows exactly what she's doing, or at least that it pleases her pets who give her food and treats. So maybe baptisms and marriages by proxy are a divine requirement for the living believers, while the dead can either ignore it, or smile.
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