Since I'm on the topic of absurd beliefs another one would have to be baptism for the dead. The LDS church believes that everyone needs to be baptized or they cannot "inherit the kingdom of god". Or in other words, get into heaven. This is a brilliant plan the church has, because where do you do these baptisms? In the temple of course. And how do to get the opportunity to go to the temple. With a temple recommend. And what do you have to do to get a temple recommend? Pay tithing of course. Everything is centered on the temple because you need to be a full tithe payer to go there (among other silly requirements). The main activity in these temples is, you guessed it. Baptisms for the dead. And once they are baptized then you have to do their endowments for them. For DEAD people. Come on, really? But I believed it for many years and I baptized lots of dead people and did endowments for many dead people. And yes I do realize how ridiculous that sounds. But it didn't think it was ridiculous when I was a member of the LDS church. I thought it was a perfectly normal thing to do.
Now don't go thinking "holy crap, you dug up dead people and took them to the temple!" No there were no graveyard raids sorry to tell you. We did the baptisms and endowments in proxy. In the temple we would get their names and do the ordinances for them.
That would be kinda cool though. Digging up corpses and baptizing them. The LDS church is a master of making the ridiculous sound perfectly normal but I don't think even they could pull that one off.
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