Reason #49: The Proxy Baptisms of Jews

  An ethnic group which has done public battle with the LDS Church is Judaism. According to Richard and Joan Ostling, in the mid-1990s about 380,000 deceased Jews had proxy baptisms performed in their names in various LDS temples. They included many Jews who died in Nazi concentration camps including Anne Frank; Sigmund Freud, David Ben-Gurion and Ba”‘al Shem Tov, the founder of the Hasidic Jewish movement. Adding insult to injury, zealous Mormons also stood in proxy for Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, believing they effected their baptisms and sealings to one another as husband and wife for eternity.   If the prospect of meeting Hitler as a god in eternity rankles the sensitivities of most non-Mormons, imagine the impact of such an idea on a Jew....