re who s next mormons and jews in article viking ponderous cc iastate edu viking iastate edu dan sorenson writes in mcclaryc snpq kb netcom com mcclary netcom com michael mcclary writes lds and rlds philosophy is that all other religions have strayed from the true church as set down by jesus but that god will judge each on his own merits in addition the rlds also contend and the lds may as well that ignorance of the true way tm is an excuse you can only be condemned if you had been tought the way and rejected it in short lds and rlds suffer everybody from lutherans to buddhists secure in the knowledge that though they are wrong they will not be penalized for ignorance i believe that this is not quite correct my understanding is that lds is engaged on a project to convert the souls of deceased persons of other religions in order to spare them from damnation and gain them entrance into heaven to this end the church has compiled extensive genaeological records so that they will know the names of people to convert a long article in the new yorker a few years ago described the lds research methods in some detail for example some researchers pay visits to local native storytellers to learn the names of people long dead this sounds like just the sort of lie that would be made up about any unusual religion but the new yorker story convinced me that there is some truth to it the new yorker used to do extensive fact checking and the story was quite detailed ari
