Ancestry.com can use your DNA to target ads

Re:Ancestry.com can use your DNA to target ads by xahrepap on Monday September 07, 2015 @10:20PM (#10183910)

You have to be a descendant of the deceased to submit their name to be done. Also, there's a lot of sensitivity toward religions who have general qualms about the practice (for example, it's against the rules to submit Jewish holocaust victims). Also, many religious leaders of other faiths have gone on record[1] saying how they're glad the Mormons have brought back the biblical practice of baptisms for the dead.

The practice isn't as cultist as some (gp) may want to imply without understanding what it implies and really means.

[1] https://youtu.be/4mMDYt0Twpo

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Re:Ancestry.com can use your DNA to target ads by hueving on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @02:43AM (#10184343)

>The practice isn't as cultist as some (gp) may want to imply without understanding what it implies and really means.

You are having some group of people you don't know say something about a dead relative followed by a ritual not based in any science to change which imaginary place they will be in.

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Re:Ancestry.com can use your DNA to target ads by _delirium on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @02:45AM (#10184348)

Well yes, but that's not really a criticism specific to Mormon rituals; it applies to most religious rituals.

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