02-15-2012, 10:07 AM
Grace62 wrote:
"(Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center) called the actions "unacceptable," saying that people who lost everyone and everything and were murdered for being Jewish during the Holocaust should not have their souls hijacked by another religion."
I just don't get this. I don't believe that baptism does anything except get you wet. If the Rabbi claims that these souls have been "hijacked by another religion" it seems to me that he is saying that the Mormon afterlife is an alternate, yet valid option to the one the Jews believe in.
A more appropriate response would be to say that this is disrespectful to the families of the deceased, and they (the LDS church) should apologize, but it's not going to have any effect at all on the soul of the deceased.