Anonymous A started this discussion 6 years ago#92,116
So, I don't know if the LDS church has an official opinion on alternate universes.
It turns out that if you feed some hopeful incel enough garbage about quantum probabilities in an infinite universe, then they are more than willing to accept the idea that somewhere, somewhen any world you can imagine has existed or will exist. Given that these people may have existed, then it can't hurt to do a proxy baptism (that's where Mormons stand in a pool in embarrassing clothing and chant the names of dead people) just in case, right? The sacred rite bestows divine saving grace upon someone who has died without a chance to know or accept Jesus Christ during their life. In some regard, the rite offers the person conducting it a chance to meet the named soul in the afterlife and pull them through to salvation by being the first the save them. (sort of, it's complicated)
It turns out it isn't hard to convince teenage boys to give a saving ordinance to imaginary people that they want to exist. You can try to convince them of this and, in the course of conversation, slowly nudge them around to the idea that maybe they might be the first person to think this. You can watch the light bulb go off in their heads and then watch them rush off to start planning to baptize Takagi, Kagamihara Nadeshiko, Shima Rin, or Aihara Yuzu in the hopes of meeting them later on.