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Holocaust survivors halt talks with LDS
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It's about time they actually live up to their word and respect others beliefs.
I'm LDS, and would be touched if a Jew, Catholic, Muslim, etc...would devote any resources to my salvation, whether or not I believed it would help.
I thought LDS authorities had promised this practice was to be halted?!!!
For the life of me, I cannot see the problem
Why wouldn't younger Jewish generations know whose ancestors were in the Holocaust? Please explain yourself.
If you're listed in any of the Salt Lake area phone books, you're already an Abominator. Congratulations!
Utah county is next, then we'll be moving North to Davis and Cache counties. I hope you newly baptized Abominators don't mind. After all, we baptized you out of love.
Kind of like today's neoconservative movement.
On the other hand, if people have a choice whether to accept or reject a baptism performed on their behalf in the afterlife, or if the descendants of the dead person believe the whole thing is meaningless and pointless, I really don't understand why it should be a problem.
The Church doesn't identify Holocaust victims whose names are submitted for temple work. If a descendant of a victim joins the Church and wants to submit their name for temple work, should we really expect the Church to refuse to do it?
Respect them and leave them alone! You can't change their religion after they are gone! Ambulance chasers, good grief!
Since none of it is valid. I don't care.
Please just admit there has been a faux pas somewhere along the line, where some of the over-zealous and faithful family historians have entered more Jewish names since the agreement. Have the names taken off and know that when the Millenium occurs all will be taken care of then.
Let's show respect for the Jewish point of view in spite of their anger. That is what the Gospel of Jesus Christ is: loving unconditionally. :)
If you believe, as I do, that these ordinances are essential for all God's children, then you also recognize the beauty of His plan to assure that those who lived and died on the earth when they were not available now have the opportunity to accept the ordinances (or not) done on their behalf in modern-day temples. It is a massive task, however, when you consider the hundreds of millions who've lived on the earth and the relatively small number doing the work. Managing the resulting database has been an ongoing challenge for the church. Preventing submissions of a particular group such as this is one difficulty. The most frustrating to me, however, is the inability to prevent the work being done multiple times for the same individual�that is time and effort better spent on those whose ordinance work remains undone.
Eventually the issues will be resolved�patience!
It appears no one has proprietary responsibilities to the souls of anyone, except what we believe to be a valid practice: Baptism of the Dead.
This practice affects in no way the decisions made here and in the afterlife by any individual these rites involve. If it is valid, then all win. If it is not valid, then there is no harm.
A bit possessive here, it seems.
How do you know they wouldn't want this done for them?
If the LDS church is right, they can reject this if they are wrong, it still won't have any effect.
If the LDS church is right and some of them want this work done, who elected or appointed you to deny them this?
Why I ask who?
Or, if we've changed our mind, then we should say that. I think we have a right to baptize anybody who has died. It's a name, that's it. The public record of my name can be uttered by anyone.
No Soup for us, I guess.
Chris D.
Might I suggest if you don't want to do something, then you should make that decision for yourself, and stop trying to impose your will on others.
Genealogy/temple "paper"work is actually digital today. How hard would it be to have an automatic pre-screen that would kick out suspect names for closer inspection? Part of "Temple Ready," maybe?
A holocaust name may actually belong to someone else and shouldn't be automatically dumped. Just ask the Jim Smith Society!
Also, it's OK by LDS rules to submit holocaust names, if those names actually represent a direct ancestor. Actual descendants of holocaust victims shouldn't be denied the right to honor their direct ancestors.
One final thought: the practice of periodically removing Hitler, Stalin, holocaust victims, and suchlike from the IGI doesn't have any real effect according to LDS theology. AFAIK there's no way to actually "un-baptize" a dead person. Proxy excommunication, maybe?
Whew are there not more serious problems to worry about?
In the past, persons had submitted the names of Holocaust victims or Jews they were not related to for baptismal work. By previous agreement, the Church removed these names from the records.
However, there are members of the Church who are related to these persons and they re-submit the names as part of their genealology. The Jewish group in the article wants this practice to stop as well.
In effect, they wish to prevent these people from practicing their religion.
If not, how can anyone speak for them?
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