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Mormons perform baptisms on Holocaust victims
AP ^ | December 21, 2017 | Brady McCombs

Posted on 12/21/2017 9:13:49 AM PST by C19fan

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This was a big issue awhile ago. The LDS promised to put a stop to it.
1 posted on 12/21/2017 9:13:49 AM PST by C19fan
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Baptism of the dead is NOT a practice sanctioned by the Bible.


2 posted on 12/21/2017 9:16:48 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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So is that so heaven will be filled with Mormons? I don’t get it.


3 posted on 12/21/2017 9:17:27 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkey)
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Stupid practice, it just ticks people off.


4 posted on 12/21/2017 9:17:39 AM PST by LouieFisk
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Big batch of stories like this in 2012. Religious cultists lie. Hardly news.


5 posted on 12/21/2017 9:18:00 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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If it has no true effect, it’s harmless.


6 posted on 12/21/2017 9:18:04 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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“So is that so heaven will be filled with Mormons? I don’t get it.”
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Really bumps up the yearly “converts” count, though.


7 posted on 12/21/2017 9:19:14 AM PST by LouieFisk
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If it has no true effect, it’s harmless.
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As I sez, it does ticks people off - that’s an effect.


8 posted on 12/21/2017 9:20:25 AM PST by LouieFisk
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This is just weird.


9 posted on 12/21/2017 9:25:48 AM PST by rdl6989
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“Baptism of the dead is NOT a practice sanctioned by the Bible.”

does this fit:

1 Corinthians, Chapt 15: Verse 29—

“Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?”


10 posted on 12/21/2017 9:27:55 AM PST by IWONDR
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Daring to speak for all my murdered Jewish ancestors:

Good luck... with All That...


11 posted on 12/21/2017 9:27:56 AM PST by Yaelle
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Meaningless mumbo-jumbo to me, but I don’t care and accept it in the spirit meant.


12 posted on 12/21/2017 9:28:41 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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and I don’t believe they are really baptizing the dead. That would involve digging them up. So this is baptism by proxy. Which is essentially someone getting baptized themselves and imagining they are a proxy.


13 posted on 12/21/2017 9:29:46 AM PST by lerker
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Mormons are posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims as well as grandparents of public figures like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg, despite church rules intended to restrict the ceremonies to a member's ancestors [...]

Well, I have no doubt that some Mormons are bonafide descendents of Holocaust victims, so what's the problem?

Likewise: Some Mormons are likely descended from ancestors they have in common with Trump, Spielberg, etc.

This is nothing new.

Regards,

14 posted on 12/21/2017 9:29:50 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Goddess Worshippers who believe that the great “I AM” has a mom and a dad and grand parents and great grand parents.....


15 posted on 12/21/2017 9:31:56 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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word games.....still NOT biblical.


16 posted on 12/21/2017 9:38:04 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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my point is they aren’t even doing what they imagine/say they are doing


17 posted on 12/21/2017 9:44:41 AM PST by lerker
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I have known and been friends with a lot of Mormons over the year. They are mostly good people. I wonder how many of them realize some of the weird practices going due to orders from headquarters in SLC.


18 posted on 12/21/2017 9:45:32 AM PST by 43north (Drive the scenic route and take the dog (no pit bulls please).)
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This practice is widely known and derided enough to have a nickname: “dead dunking.” My paternal seventh great grandfather has been dead dunked multiple times judging by erroneous records in the LDS database, they have hime all over the place, even in NC in 1660 (he wasn’t, he was barely off the boat in St. Mary’s City, MD). I know why, a branch of the family converted and went west prior to the Civil War. He was a devout man, professed himself pardoned for his sins and forgiven by the Lord in his last will and testament. Sort of insulting actually. I can see why Holocaust victims are upset, it implies that they were deficient and hell-bound without Mormon intervention, as if Mormons are some bastion of sinlessness.


19 posted on 12/21/2017 9:51:06 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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I am sure that G-d is very angry about their attempt to force their religion on the dead, who cannot resist. Fortunately, they are working with empty shells, while the actual soul has gone on to its reward. So, they are merely necrophiliacs. Really really sick people.


20 posted on 12/21/2017 9:55:25 AM PST by EinNYC
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