LDS Inc in hot water over Holocaust necro-dunking again!

[_Sethbag]

The parents are dead. Nothing could possibly be done at this point which victimizes them.

I disagree. It "victimizes" their memory, and is particularly disrespectful where the ancestors in question were exterminated for their religion. If I felt the memory of my ancestors (which is really the only thing left of the ancestors) was being disrespected, I would be very pissed. Where a group like this objects, the Church ought to have the sense to stop it, and then have faith that the work will be completed during the Millennium.

Wow. The LDS church can just grab power over people by doing this? This guy is a Jew. The LDS church is nothing to him. It's just one more Jesus cult out of the thousands that exist in the world. Why in the world should he even pay attention to the Mormons? What he's doing is giving the Mormons power over him and his parents memory that they (the Mormons) didn't earn, and don't deserve.

I don't see how a bunch of Jews remembering their ancestors who were killed by the Nazis have to even spend one microsecond considering what the Mormons did. It is not a given at all that the memories of these deceased Jews are in any way besmirched by what the Mormons did, except inasmuch as certain Jews today go out of their way to point it out to others, thus bringing it to their attention.

I mean seriously, did the LDS church take out a billboard on Times Square announcing when this guy's parents were necrodunked? He had to go research it himself before he discovered this fact. If, in his mind, the memory of his parents is besmirched, he can blame himself to an extent, because if he hadn't gone out of his way to research this, he would never even have known it! And none of his Jewish friends or relatives would have either.

[_Sethbag]

This isn't to say that the church ought not to try to be sensitive to the feelings of others about this kind of thing. Sure they should.

But whether they choose to be sensitive about this, or be jerks about it, the people getting all upset about it are in fact ceding some power over their lives and thoughts to the Mormons. This could all be resolved, on the part of these Jews, by simply ignoring the Mormons altogether, and not granting them one nanosecond of their time.

[_Danna]

I think it is offensive. We have had a few cases over here where fraudsters have taken the name and details of a dead baby to gain an 'identity' for nefarious purposes. When the parents of the baby concerned find this out, they are almost always emotionally hurt by the affair.

And I have always thought the 'out' that temple work would only be done for descendents and relatives of Mormons was nonsense - since Mormons believe their blood will be replaced with Jewish blood and that they are then 'related' to all Jews.

[_Droopy]

I think that the Jewish guy is being irrational about this. He doesn't believe in Mormonism, and the Mormon worldview, and so he must therefor believe that what the Mormons are accomplishing by necro-dunking his parents is exactly nothing.

If the Mormon Church is true, then he should be happy his parents were necrodunked into it, and if the Mormon Church is not true, then what Mormons do in his parents' names behind their closed door of their secret temples is just so much nonsense, and certainly doesn't affect his dead parents in the least.

Who cares? Its another black eye for LDS Inc in the view of the public. Gotta love that!

The point he is making, at least the one I see, is that the Nazi's victimized them first, then the Mormons victimized them again, all in the name of making money off the unwitting sheep who are told they must do temple work for the dead! What an easy list of obviously non Mormon names --the holocaust victim list.

You're in the real world, please comport yourself accordingly.