Any Mormons Here?

I'm wondering if anyone can explain a little bit about this....

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Mormon officials say they're looking forward to meeting Sunday and Monday with Jewish leaders, but won't comment on accusations that proxy baptisms of Jews continue.
Jewish leaders say deceased Jews and Holocaust victims are still being baptized into the Mormon faith despite a 1995 agreement to halt unwanted proxy baptisms.
The Jewish leaders say they have records proving tens of thousands of Jews were posthumously baptized as Mormons over the past ten years and as recently as last month.
In proxy baptism, church members stand in for deceased non-Mormons -- a ritual the church teaches is required for the dead to reach heaven.
Genealogical researcher Helen Radkey says most Catholic popes have been proxy baptized, as have historical figures including Ghengis Khan, Joan of Arc, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Buddha.

 

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Who would care? I don't care if they baptize me after I'm dead.

 

I used to date a girl who was mormon. She rejected the whole multiple wives thing though

 

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I haven't read the Book of Mormon yet (it's on my shelf), but I have a hunch the doctrine of physical baptism being required for salvation is the key to that particular practice. How they justify intercession, though, is a mystery to me. :huh:

 

I could understand maybe doing it for your deceased relatives if you believe this, but what would the justification be for doing it for people you don't know, and more specifically some of the most evil people in the history of mankind?

Mormonism is one of the more bizarre Christain religions, I think. I had a good friend in high school that was a Mormon, and he and I would talk a lot about his beliefs. There are some very......interesting lets say, concepts in the Mormon beliefs.

 

I've said it before and I say again, the majority of Mormon women I've met have been perverted sex fiends.

 

I'm thinking compassion, basically. Taking Matthew 5 and putting it into practice.

Indeed.

From what I've learned so far, Mormonism at its most basic levels looks very much like run-of-the-mill everyday Protestantism (except for the whole temple thing). But the deeper into it you go, the farther it gets from Biblical doctrine. That's what makes it hard and dangerous. Some people who attend Mormon temples on a semi-regular basis might actually be Christians. Yet because of their association with the LDS, old school Protestants tend to rain judgment on them without bothering to ask the individual what he or she really believes.

 

I think the people of the Jewish faith take issue with the proxy baptisms because it's (in their view) disrespectful to their religion and practices.

It's a respect thing, I think. I could be wrong though....