It's just disrespectful towards the memory of the dead. If this individual was really a loved one, don't you think he/she probably already heard everything the baptizer's had to say about their religion? And they had already turned aside "salvation"? That's their choice. It's certainly a HELL of a lot more condescending. "Well they told me they didn't want to be part of my religion their whole life, but now that they're dead and can't stop me, I can do what I think is best for them. Because I'm definitely right." Wow. way to be presumptuous.

There are many definitions of love...but this degree of disrespectful is always unacceptable in my book.


And, from a religious aspect, I find this practice of posthumously baptizing someone who refused a religion to be spiritual rape. That'd even apply to converting someone in one form of Christianity to another. If you make a Catholic into a Baptist after they die, it's still just...it's wrong to defy someone's spiritual decisions in such a manner. Period and end. That's my take on the matter.