I’m pretty sure Mormons do this for everybody.
NO they don't.
The article even points out how Mormonism's dead-dunking of Jewish holocaust victims gave them a repeated drubbing both in the news media at-large as well as among holocaust victims' families and the Jewish community at-large.
Mormon leaders agreed to stop doing that.
Now here's the BILLION-$ question NOBODY -- and I mean NOBODY -- has been asking:
IF...
...baptizing dead people is indeed "salvific" for their souls -- as poster Macquire said in post #17: ("Those who practice this rite view baptism as an indispensable requirement to enter the Kingdom of God...")...
...and SINCE...
...the Mormon church is now steadfastly refusing to baptize Jewish holocaust victims [+ there may be a reluctance to dead-dunk Jewish deceased people in general]...
...THEN...
...please tell us...
...what's the difference between the Mormon policy that kept blacks out of their priesthood in 1978...
...and the Mormon policy that keeps Jews (at least some Jews) out of their temple baptism pools (by proxy)???
Aren't both examples of utter Mormon racism?
If Mormon baptism for the dead was in any way, shape or form efficacious for the benefactors, shouldn't that trump Mormon PRism????
Bottom-line: When Mormon PRism -- in all practicality -- winds up trumping Mormon theology...
...When you know that Mormon leaders can toss its theology -- and the literal supposed "salvation" of so many -- right out the window...
...So much for that theology being of ANY value whatsoever!!!
(It's either that or the Mormon gods openly discriminate vs. Jews...just like they discriminate vs. never-married Mormon people and won't allow them to live with Heavenly Father forever, either!)
That's the PR and the practice; as much as possible.
But - and here is the kicker - you have to have a NAME to speak in the Temple®.
There are BILLIONS of humans who have passed thru this world; leaving NO record of their existance.
Ask a MORMON how THIS little problem will be resolved...
I’m pretty sure Mormons do this for everybody.
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They do. Popes, Hitler, Jesus Christ, Elvis.
Wow! That’s a relief. I guess they’ll be coming after your ancestors and mine some time soon.