Controversy Arises Over LDS Practice of Baptisms for the Dead

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[AnTiw1]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has apologized for "a serious breach of protocol" in which the parents of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal were posthumously baptized as Mormons.

[Trod Upon]

Mormons assuming other religions are false is no more arrogant than people of other religions assuming that Mormonism is false. People believe what they believe and act on it. I just can’t understand getting so worked up about the mumbo-jumbo of a religion you think is false. Why waste the mental energy? Nothing they are doing will have any effect other than further irritate people looking for something else to be pissed at them for. But, it’s a free country. I just think it’s all nonsense and I’d probably laugh if they tried to “baptise” my dead relatives. Let them waste their time and resources; the mortal remains of my ancestors certainly won’t give a damn.

[ansel12]

The con man Joe Smith jumping up and creating his fake little cult is arrogant.

The passive aggressive cult practice of investigating me and my family and trying to baptize us out of Christianity and into their satanic cult, is arrogant.

The Jews are right, and the Mormons agree with them, and claim that they will respect them, we Christians want that respect as well.

[AppyPappy]

Ummm....they are dead? So maybe it doesn’t matter.

[LadyDoc]

I remember the kerfuffle a couple years ago, so I find it strange that Romney is being asked to order this new bunch to stop. Romney doesn't speak for the LDS church, and is only a bishop, which is the equivalent as a local pastor in other churches. Finally, my point is that even in the early Christian church, good people worried about those who had died and didn't have a way to chose to follow Christ, and they started that custom of baptizing the dead: The apostles quickly stopped it, but it was done.

Every religion has a different idea of the afterlife, and an LDS sees it as enabling those who weren't given a chance of salvation as being given the choice in the afterlife. You don't think this is real, but THEY do, which is my point. They were trying to help them

As for the baptismal fount: That is a biblical design, and has a long history:1 King7 and is found in the design of baptismal fonts since medieval times link

[Gamecock]

I trace my family’s genealogy and commend the LDS for their tremendous efforts in this field.

However, I have NEVER been enamored with their “baptising” or “sealing” of people who were not of their faith ...

Why do you think they do genealogy? So they can baptize all the people they find. It's not to help amateur genealogists.

[COBOL2Java]

So long as you don't hurt another in process then believe away.. it's good for everyone, IMO.

So I guess, the surviving relatives should just shut up and take it?

[Faith-Hope]

“Amen. The thought of them even speaking my relatives names in their satanic ritual makes me ill.”

Try going to their site and find their genealogy site and enter your Grandmother or Grandfathers name and check to see if their names have been sealed. It made me sick when I looked. I would not put my Dad's name in afraid of what I would find. My Dad was a Christian, a Deacon, and a worker within the church. It just makes you feel sad that anyone has that right to do this to the dead.

[Revolting cat!]

For the right price they can go ahead and baptize all my ancestors going back to Adam.

[Balding_Eagle]

So I guess, the surviving relatives should just shut up and take it?

Of course not, if they want to, they should scream and shout their objections.

However, some here want to use the heavy hand of government to put a stop to this.

Me? I'd laugh to find out they'd 'baptisted' a family member. Especially my Dad, 'cuz he'd have a good laugh over it too if he were alive.

His salvation, and mine, is unaffected by the actions of a bunch of heathens.

[AnTiw1]

I’m an ex-mormon born into the cult, so they already have. I’ll take cash.

[I see my hands]

Lol @ making a statement in the form a question that starts with the word 'so.' It's very weak and a straw man type rhetorical device fondly embraced by lefties. I never talk with people who do that.

[COBOL2Java]

Lol @ making a statement in the form a question that starts with the word 'so.' It's very weak and a straw man type rhetorical device fondly embraced by lefties. I never talk with people who do that.

Spoken by some adolescently narcissistic poster who thinks by pretentiously framing his comments in a box they somehow become more relevant.

[1malumprohibitum]

Again, I think you and people agreeing with you are missing the point. No other religions are baptizing people of other religions against their wishes into their belief system. Mormons are the only one. This is arrogant and overreach and It is especially egregious in the case of the jews killed in the holocaust. It is obscenely offensive because being jewish, which they would not give up even to save their lives, is then symbolically taken away from them after their death. OF COURSE it has no effect, but it is a massively arrogant and insensitive F U to the Jews and to their family members.

[Burkean]

I don’t get it either. Why get all wee wee-d up about something one doesn’t believe in?

It reminds me of the stories about native tribes getting upset over having their photograph taken, and feeling like part of their soul was captured in the process.