The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Friday, July 8, 2011
Where do Vikings go when they die?
This short cartoon attempts to provide an explanation.
Some Mormons believe that by retroactively baptizing dead ancestors, they can afford those ancestors a place in the Mormon version of Heaven...*
Now, let's suppose that some of those ancestors are happily residing in Valhalla, when all of a sudden, they're transposed into the Mormon version of Heaven. Care to extrapolate how those Viking ancestors will react to the experience, and how "grateful" they'll be to their descendants?
I'm not sure that Mormon Heaven is going to be that much fun to live in...
*Yes, I know this is a gross simplification, but if you ask the average Mormon why they have such an interest in genealogy, that's what they'll tell you...
One man's heaven...
ReplyDeleteCute video!
I feel for him!
ReplyDeleteInteresting without sound. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting take ... that poor Klingon couldn't get into Stovalkor. Oops, wrong setting. :)
ReplyDeleteI can so identify with that character.
ReplyDeleteAlthough within a few years he'd have started tunneling.
Good one :-)
ReplyDeleteIt's okay. He ended up reincarnating. I think I've met him.
ReplyDeleteWait.
He ended up reincarnating a lot.
:)
Here's an amusing thought experiment:
ReplyDeleteSome Mormons believe that by retroactively baptizing dead ancestors, they can afford those ancestors a place in the Mormon version of Heaven...*
Now, let's suppose that some of those ancestors are happily residing in Valhalla, when all of a sudden, they're transposed into the Mormon version of Heaven. Care to extrapolate how those Viking ancestors will react to the experience, and how "grateful" they'll be to their descendants?
I'm not sure that Mormon Heaven is going to be that much fun to live in...
*Yes, I know this is a gross simplification, but if you ask the average Mormon why they have such an interest in genealogy, that's what they'll tell you...
Hey, you'd at least have all the Jello you could eat!
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