Holocaust survivors to Mormons: Stop baptisms of dead Jews »

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Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.

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    Spadecaller1 year, 3 months ago

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    Posthumous baptisms are shameful, they distort history, disrespect the victims of the holocaust, and the honor of their surviving relatives.

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    Jayson1 year, 3 months ago

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    I have a friend who was a Mormon (she no longer is) and was baptized in the name of several dead people. It is a very strange practice. The Mormons have a right to practice whatever they want to, but if Jewish groups don't want them baptizing people in the name of Holocaust victims, the Mormon church ought to respect that. Especially since those people had nothing to do with the Mormon church.

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      Charlson1 year, 3 months ago

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      Do Mormons circumcise their boys like jews?

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      vor1 year, 3 months ago

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      Mormonism is simply invalid. Whatever Joseph Smith claimed appeared to him it was surely out of financial necessity. Truly one of the strangest "prophets" of the modern age. You have to suspend all knowledge of history and geography to even begin to think any of this nonsense is plausible. Not hard to believe this would draw adherents in the Burned Over District (of Upstate New York) but for people to still be following this drivel 200 years later is nothing less than sad. Let's take a front end loader to the backside of the Hill Cumorah. If there are not hundreds (of thousands) of skeletons underneath then no great battle took place there and the fraud is proven once and for all.

      Can something of good come from a fraud? That is the first question I ask of a Mormon.

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        tchef1 year, 3 months ago

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        As I understand baptism, you must be conscious and present for it to mean anything. It is a sign of your choice to practice that faith. You can't do it posthumously, it wouldn't mean anything.

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        sumptuousdigs1 year, 3 months ago

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        Joseph Smith!! I thought this article was some kind of joke or satire when I saw the heading. I'm sorry folks, but how can any of the parties be serious? Oy veh!

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          Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 3 months ago

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          Insanity pure and simple.

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          gamahuche1 year, 3 months ago

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          Simple solution:
          Trade baptism for circumcision!
          Choose a Mormon negotiator and a Jewish negotiator and lock them in a room for as long as it takes to argue it out - and in the meantime put all of these activities on hold.
          As long as it takes..
          When that's dealt with lets round up all the Mormons who haven't been castrated yet - I mean circumcised - and put them in a nice camp..
          Whatever..let them choose, but either way make sure its with a blunt knife.

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            doppich1 year, 3 months ago

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            It's when the religious nuts use government to inflict their odd beliefs and values on the rest of us that we should be concerned. Stupid but harmless practices such as this should be of no concern - even to other religious nuts.

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              Mutainia1 year, 3 months ago

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              Give me people ANY day who think being dunked in water will release some soul from hell than another group of people who think carving off a head will get them virgins in a slothful brothel in the sky.

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              wildman65571 year, 2 months ago

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              If the idiot Mormons what to baptize dead people, let them. What difference does it make? It is all meaningless anyway.

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              StevieGee1 year, 2 months ago

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              Mormons are baptizing dead Jews against their will and sending millions to California to promote prop 8. They need to get out of other peoples lives. I may just quit offering water to the elders when they come to my door.

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              tkyrchncs1 year, 2 months ago

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              Hysterical! Some people just have more time on their hands than they know what to do with. Let the Jews and Mormons negotiate it out if they wish, just KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF IT. I don't care if they feed me to the dogs when I'm dead. Why in the heck should I care if someone wants to baptize me?

              Do you know what else they do? Mormons recognize two forms of marriage, the regular 'til-death-do-us-part" kind, that is over when one party dies, and marriages sealed in the Temple, which are forever, even in heaven. And they SEAL THE MARRIAGES of their ancestors by proxy too. Bizarre. Imagine being a 16th century ancestor of one of these clowns, and you were married to some awful shrew for 20 yrs and delighted to be free of her when she died, and now, all of a sudden, dead 500 yrs, you're married to her FOREVER! It cracks me UP! ROFLMAO!

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                patnpatc-791 year, 2 months ago

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                Once I die, I have already met my God and could care less what happens after that.

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                  416Remington1 year, 2 months ago

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                  Being baptized posthumously is a lot better than the baptism the guy in the wheelchair got from the Achille Lauro terrorists. Just sayin'.

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