Joseph Smith's Translation Of Genesis 1:1 [Source: Jews for Judaism]

I was delighted to find from your source that mormons do not consider Jewish people suitable candidates for conversion.

Then, why have they baptized millions of holocaust victims into the mormon church. Do you find that delightful also?

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http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/ldsagree.html

The wrongful baptism of Jewish dead, which disparages the memory of a deceased person is a brazen act which will obscure the historical record for future generations. It has been bitterly opposed by many Jews for a number of years. Others say they will never stop being Jews, simply because there is a paper saying they had been baptized, that the act of posthumous baptism is unimportant and should be ignored. We think this to be a narrow, parochial, and shallow view. We will continue opposing this wrongful act which assimilates our dead to the point where it will not be possible to know who was Jewish in their lifetimes.

A protest drive initiated by Jewish genealogists escalated it to a nationally publicized issue that was followed by public outcry. American Jewish leaders considered it an insult and a major setback for interfaith relations. They initiated discussions with the Mormon Church that culminated in a voluntary 1995 agreement by the Church to remove the inappropriate names. Activists continue to monitor Mormon baptismal lists, seeking removal of inappropriate entries.

Has the church done anything to uphold its decade-old agreement with the Jewish community? The bad news is that the Mormons did (and still do) hijack Jewish genocide victims and other Jewish dead. Moreover, when a Jew is baptized, the door is open for all of his deceased ancestors to be baptized as well. Regrettably, their baptismal records place before the public a revisionist view that these deceased Jews were Mormons, a position they would have rejected in life.

A commentator on this topic said that anti-Semites who desecrate Jewish cemeteries want to destroy even the memory of Jews by breaking their tombstones and other symbols whereby we honor and remember them. He concluded that baptism of the Jewish dead is just a more sophisticated form of breaking tombstones.

A blogger wrote: "I don't buy the argument that it's done for selfless reasons. It's not selflessness, it's arrogance. And especially in light of the Mormon Church's agreement in 1995 to stop baptizing Holocaust victims, it's even more reprehensible for them to continue the practice. If a church can't be trusted to keep its word in a matter such as this, then where is its moral standing?"

We want to say this to all well-meaning Christians: We don't want to be saved, redeemed, forgiven, reincarnated, resurrected, or enraptured. We just want to be left alone. After 2000 years -- is it so much to ask?

In 1995 the LDS Church and representatives of the Jewish community signed the agreement described at the beginning of this article. Jews have objected to the continuing Mormon practice of wrongful baptismof the Jewish dead, especially in the case of Holocaust victims, claiming that the practice mirrored the forced baptism of Jews in the middle ages.

Dennis Prager not one of my rabbis.... he’s not yet a religious (observant) Jew but he has some great commentary on philosophy and politics. For instance, he stresses liberty above equality as a theme. (that would be, equality of outcome, not equality under the law.)

But he clearly wants a religionist to come out acting more positively. In one fine analogy, he asks if one were walking in an alley and heard a group of men walking behind him, would he be less concerned for his safety if he knew the men just came from a Bible class...

Sorry, lots of build up for a question (skipping the curiosity of why he’s not one of your heroes.) Double apologies if you’ve explained it elsewhere— why not vote against Obama (ie for the polytheistic Romney?) He clearly wants you to be free(er) to practice your religion than Obama wants. He is decent (as many Mormans are ... like my roommate at the Academy) and will preserve the country just a wee bit longer to finally FINALLY field a rock-ribbed conservative 4 or 8 years later. The president isn’t the Bishop in Chief.

What do you feel is the heart of the argument AGAINST Anybody But Obama?

Thanks.

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