Mormons baptise parents of Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal

[omer]

The Mormon Church has apologised for posthumously baptising the parents of Nazi-hunter Simon WiesenthalJews Asher and Rosa Rapp Wiesenthal were baptised in proxy ceremonies in the US states of Arizona and Utah in January, records show

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[lux_roark]

I joined the Mormon church for 4 years. Never made it to the Temple, but I really never wanted to do baptisms for the dead anyway. My mom was a practicing Catholic, I don't think she would've wanted me to waste my time baptizing her into the LDS church.

[milleniumrex]

Does anyone here read "Red Lanterns", from DC Comics? They're a group of alien vigilantes powered by their rage, which is channeled through a ring that allows them to spit volcanic acid made out of pure hate.

That's pretty much what I'd be doing right now if I was in the DC Universe. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[tabaqui]

I really hate the public face the Mormon church puts out there. 'Oh, we're just like you, we're just good, church-goin' folk!!'

Such shite. Compounds in South America and baptizing the dead - so many little secrets and lies all overlaid with this bland, cream-cheese exterior. Makes me ill.

[mercat]

Wait, compounds in South America, what the hell?!

The most confusing part for me is the Book of Mormon... which I'm slowly learning about. I read about some FLDS stuff, but then I've heard all sorts of things like they believe Heaven is on another planet for men only and stuff like that, which I feel is probably oversimplified or misexplained to me and I just can't. I am currently penpal-ing with my friend who is on his Mission though, and we are educating eachother (he with atheism, me with Mormonism).

[tabaqui]

I've an LJ friend who is ex-Mormon and has written a lot about it - trying to publish, actually - and apparently when polygamy was outlawed in the US, a percentage of them moved to South America so they could continue living that way. Abuses of women and children were/are apparently pretty rampant down there.

They didn't even believe poc could get to 'heaven' until the late seventies, and actually, i kind of doubt they believe it now - they just changed their doctrine so as to appear more friendly to everyone.

[danger0usbeans]

When people talk about Mittens having family in Mexico, this is what they're talking about. His great-something grandparents moved to Mexico to keep practicing polygamy when it was outlawed in the US.

[gunmoll]

I hope I'm reading this wrong but,

She regularly checks the Church' s database, and also recently found the names of Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and several family members on the Mormon list.

um, excuse me. Elie is still alive and kicking so this isn't even posthumously. they're trying to change his documentation and ~save his soul~ while he's alive. this is so flat out wrong and disgusting, even before you go into WHAT HE LIVED THROUGH FOR HIS JEWISHNESS.

this legit terrifies me that my ancestors are one some fucking list like this. how do you even check for that?

[danger0usbeans]

He's going to be on Lawrence O'Donnell tonight to talk about this. I can't wait.

[gunmoll]

ty for letting me know! I just set my DVR for it.

[johnjie]

This is so disgusting and disrespectful to these people's memories that I am gobsmacked. If they died as one faith, you fucking leave them as that faith, to do otherwise is almost a violation of their right to religious freedom.

Just...the fuck?