Mormon Temple in Dominican Republic Fuels Controversy by Posthumously Baptizing Holocaust Victim Anne Frank, Says Ex-Church Member
Anne Frank — the most famous of all Holocaust victims — has been posthumously baptized at a Mormon temple, fueling the growing controversy over the bizarre practice. The rite was conducted Saturday in a Mormon temple in the Dominican Republic, according to Helen Radkey, an excommunicated church member turned whistleblower.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints practices proxy Baptism — converting Jews, Christians and Muslims to the faith years after they died by ritually dunking a stand-in for the deceased.
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What a bloody cheek these Mormons (Morons?) have The girl was born and lived as a Jew, of which she was very proud. The very idea of "baptising her by proxy is as bad as rape of identity theft!! Who the hell do they think they are ? And do they really think they can force Almighty God's hand in changing a person, who is already with her Maker, into a MORMON??? You'd have to be as thick as two planks to even contemplate that, let alone believe that. No one comes to God by force, not by the Nazis , not by the Mormons
Terrible!
I am more upset about this proxy "baptism" by the Morons
Reason is that my grandfather was baptised the same way. In life he was not a believer, he was not a Christian . His sister pulled this stunt! When I told my sons about this they asked me: Was he dug up?
Proxy Baptism? Not over my dead body!!!!
Just to set the record straight--Mr Baxter has made an entirely erroneous statement. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints practices proxy baptism, BUT it does not allow proxy Baptism for Jews or Muslims. It is possible that an excommunicated member such as Helen Radkey (who has no access to this database, so she cannot have the most correct information) might have registered for the database under false pretenses and deceived the system to accept such a baptism--but it is not policy and those who do so are denied further access to the system and perhaps, in the future, will be excommunicated like Ms Radkey.
Can just any relative do proxy baptism?
I found that a distant relative had done so for my dead father while my mother,his widow & executrix as next of kin, was still alive. As staunch Catholics, there is no way we would have consented to this practice.
One baptism is enough.
I wrote about my grandfather , that he was baptised by proxy, because of a request by his sister.
I NEVER was a LDS member!!!!
If you believe in Jesus Christ and the Holy Bible, you should have no problem with baptism for the dead. If you read the King James Bible, it says to do this.
No Biblical nor any other early church writings even hint that Christians baptized by proxy for dead people. Members of the Mandaean religion did baptize for the dead. (Mandaeans believed John the Baptist was from God, but that Jesus was a false prophet.) The only mention of baptism for the dead in the King James or any other Bible is in 1 Corinthians 15:29, where Paul is in the MIDDLE of an argument against those who did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. It is critical that in the rest of the passage, Paul uses the pronouns I and We, indicating Christian practices and beliefs. Only in verse 29 does Paul use "they," saying that even non-Christians (they) believe in the resurrection of the dead, so why can't you? Do not take one Bible verse - out of context - and build a religion around it!
Although the physical proxy is undertaken here on earth, every soul still has the right to choose whether they will accept or reject this selfless act of service for them. For this is the Lord God's GIFT to all of us, his children, the right to choose for ourselves. What if the dead have a desire to be baptized? The proxy work only gives them FREEDOM TO CHOOSE something they can't do for themselves! It's a wonderful work to do for your deceased loved ones and family! (Just ask them!)
Re Skidoo... if the 'departed in their whole life did not want be baptised as mormons,I'm sure they will not after death either. Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, including those that the mormons make when they take it upon themselves to decide what's good for people they have never met.. Best thing for the mormons and us to get on our knees and ask forgiveness for thinking we run the world, to the point of deciding which religion a person is going to be in the next world. Just remember after death, if we go 'up' the labels will fall off, if we go 'down' the labels will burn off, so don't bother hanging labels on people
I do not understand all this righteous indignation. Retrospective baptism is a tenet of the Mormon Church. If other Churches (or Religions)do not accept this belief, what difference can this practice possibly make either to them or their dead relatives? The latter are safe, far beyond our trivial concerns and petty prejudices.