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Originally Posted by ErikJohnson
If you'd like to know, I became a Christian in 2005 and requested my name be "removed from the records" shortly thereafter (although it took ~ 9 months and repeated calls to Salt Lake City to get the LDS Church to acknowledge it).
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Why does anyone bother getting their names removed from any records of any church? When my wife and I joined up, I didn't remove my name from any church I have been a member of in the past. Heck, I have been a member of several different churches and never removed my name. I just stopped going or moved out of the area. My wife didn't remove her name from the register of the Catholic Church. All of her government records has her religion listed as Catholic but there is no need to run down and change a single thing.
So why do antis who leave the church have to run down and remove their names from the church? Do they get special brownie points? Or is it because of the church's practice of performing the ordinances after death of all members who didn't perform them while they were still alive?
If it's the last reason, then it's further testimony that the church is true. When my oldest son was born in Thailand, he was born in 4 months after 9/11 in a hospital that was written up in international newspapers because many children born there were named some form of Osama Bin Laden. I was warned that you had to watch your child after he was born because the Muslim nurses would secretly offer up your child to Allah with a special blessing. (Cue the picture of a headscarfed nurse holding your baby in the air while shouting prayers in Arabic) I could only laugh. Even if the nurse did, there is only one Living God so those prayers wouldn't be effective.
The same holds true for those who aren't members of the church. If you don't believe the church is true, then how can any of the ordinances be true and effective?