Reason #146: It’s silly, but they baptized Jesus in proxy
The LDS church must be embarrassed by the fact that people keep submitting names for proxy baptisms. Helen Radkey, that burr under the Mormon saddle, has documented that recently someone was baptized in proxy for Jesus Christ. And someone else for Mary Magdalene. And then they were married for time and all eternity. Read the documentation here. For more information, see The Mormon Mirage 3rd Edition: A Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today(Zondervan, 2009). Also available as an audiobook and as an expanded-text E-book for Nook, Kindle and other reading...
Reason #120: Rest in Peace, Oral Roberts? Maybe not…
A researcher has uncovered the LDS proxy baptism and other proxy records of televangelist Oral Roberts. Old news, you might say. Mormons “dead dunk” famous deceased people all the time. The problem? Oral Roberts passed away this week, December 15, 2009. He was baptized by proxy and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints May 19-20, 2009, received his temple endowments on August 29, 2009, and was sealed to his (earthly) parents on October 13, 2009; all in the Mesa, Arizona LDS Temple, according to this researcher’s web site. The problem? A church which insists on only its own ordinances for salvation AND which depends on direct revelation from God, should not have these kinds of problems…… For more...
Reason #113: More Proxy Baptism and Marriage Shenanigans in LDS Temples
The Catholic Church’s most recently-canonized saint , Father Damian, who was famous for his work among the lepers of Hawaii, just got married. That’s a surprise to all who knew him in life as celibate, but according to researcher Helen Radkey, LDS proxies not only performed a baptism after his death so that he can be considered a Mormon; but also performed a wedding ceremony in his behalf so that he can be married in eternity. “It’s blatantly wrong to seal a person who took a vow of celibacy as a Catholic priest and is so revered in his Catholic religion,” said Radkey, a former Catholic. “It’s insulting to perform such an action posthumously. It’s very disrespectful.” For more information, see The Mormon...
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....
