Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.
Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say they are making changes to their massive genealogical database that will make it more difficult for names of Holocaust victims to be entered for posthumous baptism by proxy, a rite that has been a common Mormon practice for more than a century.
But Ernest Michel, honorary chairman of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, said that is not enough. At a news conference in New York City on Monday, he said the church also must "implement a mechanism to undo what you have done...We ask you to leave our six million Jews, all victims of the Holocaust, alone, they suffered enough."
What I do know is that the LDSers are obtaining valuable and critical genology records from places in Easter Europe from the past century and a half which otherwise wouldn't be available.
As I don't believe in Christian theology, I wonder if it would make a difference what wand the Mormons are waving? If a human can be a god, why can't a dead soul become Mormon? I don't believe in the first part nor the second.
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