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Originally posted by sugar and spice
MysticCat -- I understand that. However, from a historical context, the part that was upsetting was that they were forced to deny their religion and practice another. That's not going on here -- no one is being forced to deny their religion. Even after the baptism, Jews are still Jews until they choose to be Mormons. No one is forcing them to make that choice. The baptism does not affect their faith at all.
I think this is largely an issue of semantics -- what the word "baptism" means to different people. It's a different thing in the Mormon religion than it is in many other divisions of Christianity, and to treat it like it's the same is what's causing the problem here. If proxy baptism was referred to by another word than "baptism," I doubt people would even blink twice at the act.
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It's you that wouldn't blink twice.
Others would and have.
Given that so much thought goes into the after-life, the body, funerals for Jews, a history of attempts by other religions to interfere, etc. it's understood that we care and given how quite a few other non-Jews sympathize, it seems they understand as well.
But OK we got the fact that you, who aren't Jewish, don't care.
-Rudey