Anne Frank Posthumously Baptized as a Mormon
Anne Frank, whose famous diary made her a symbol of the Jews killed in the Holocaust, has been posthumously baptized as a Mormon.
The Mormon church has a practice of baptizing dead people, but an agreement between the church and Jewish leaders banned the baptism of Jews, unless they were the direct ancestors of Mormons.
Reports say Mormon whistleblower and former church member Helen Radkey claimed Frank was baptized on Saturday at a Mormon temple in the Dominican Republic. Radkey got her information from a database that is only open to Mormons.
Radkey said Frank’s name has been submitted for baptism more than a dozen times over the years, but this is the first time her name has been on the list in more than a decade.
In a statement to The Huffington Post, church spokesman Michael Purdy said:
“The Church keeps its word and is absolutely firm in its commitment to not accept the names of Holocaust victims for proxy baptism.
"While no system is foolproof in preventing the handful of individuals who are determined to falsify submissions we are committed to taking action against individual abusers. It is distressing when an individual willfully violates the Church’s policy and something that should be understood to be an offering based on love and respect becomes a source of contention."
This latest embarrassment for the church comes a week after it was forced to issue an apology for posthumously baptizing the parents of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
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Lots of generalizations seem to be getting applied here as well a lot of advice on how religions, sects and cults are "expected" to act. I really have a lot less concern that a religion decides to invoke their blessing on the spirit of a dead person than I am that so many want to condemn and attack the living for exercising their own faith in a manner that harms no one. The First Amendment affirms that they have that right even if others are offended to hear it. Even the Catholics pray for the souls of all of the living and all the dead. Does how these people pray make them fair game?
Now as to Progressives who choose to regulate the lives and religions of others by the force of government or Muslims who tend to want to kill non-believers, maybe those folks behave in a way that merits condemnation.
Can you really expect rational and consistent thoughts and behaviors from a cult that believes in magic underwear?
The level of mental damage necessary to embrace baptism of the dead is beyond the comprehension of a normal sane human.
Mormons (Morons) are just mentally damaged individuals that should be kept away from normal people. Anybody that can believe the conman john smith line of crap is beyond help.
Those that can't or won't defend themselves can only be slaves.
I disagree. One of the reasons Jews say kaddish for a deceased parent is that it's one of the very few ways they can continue to accrue merit after death (by virtue of having produced a virtuous child), thereby easing their soul's purification in Gehenna (Purgatory) and speeding their preparation for heaven. So I don't see post-mortem baptism being all that far out, even though the concept is unique to their denomination.
In fact, I think it shows a more charitable and forgiving attitude than the traditional Christian position.
I don't know about charitable, it certainly is arrogant.
If freedom means anything, it is the liberty to tell others what they do not want to hear.
You have to take it in context. I'd certainly prefer to be baptized after death than for a religion that demand laws that lower me to dhimmi status in this life (or to be forced to choose between conversion and death) -- as one quarter of humans in this world advocate.
Correction, it's Com Man Joseph Smith. Other than that, it just that the brainwashing they undergo is so intense that very few can ever escape it. Even so, the missionaries are never permitted to go anywhere alone. Otherwise, they might "fall by the wayside".
The LDS never releases data on how many do anyway.
If freedom means anything, it is the liberty to tell others what they do not want to hear.
I hear its vogue now to flame Mormons? Can someone tell me where I can get juicy material to cut them down to size?
Just ask them where are those engraved plates that Joseph Smith "found" and spent ten years translating. If they existed. all they would have to do is release them for independent examination. If they proved to be what they claim, the Mormon religion would sweep all others from the world. I've asked that question may times of them and have never received a consistent or believable answers.
If freedom means anything, it is the liberty to tell others what they do not want to hear.
haha so much fun trolling