Another baptism-by-proxy question

[Susan_Mary]

Hi, I’m new here.

I did a search on this site and google to see if my question had been answered before and I couldn’t find it, so I’ll ask it now.

I was in a discussion with a Mormon about baptism-for-the-dead. Our conversation eventually turned to Jews and Catholics requesting Mormons not perform this rite on our dead. My Mormon friend was insistent that their baptism-by-proxy be done on everyone but avoided answering this question:

Do Mormon perform baptism-of-the-dead on Muslims? If not, why not?

 

[bpbasilphx]

Since their baptisms for the living are totally uneffacacious and void, why should their baptisms for the dead work any better?

If it makes them feel better to “baptise me for the dead”, go ahead. It won’t accomplish one thing spiritually.

 

[Susan_Mary]

Since their baptisms for the living are totally uneffacacious and void, why should their baptisms for the dead work any better?

If it makes them feel better to “baptise me for the dead”, go ahead. It won’t accomplish one thing spiritually.

There are three reasons, I know of, why this should be important to Catholics.

1. Re: Vatican Warning of Mormon ‘Baptism of the Dead’, Father James Massa, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, said “…we have to make very clear to them their practice of so-called rebaptism is unacceptable from the standpoint of Catholic truth.” catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=27825&wf=rsscol
2. Re: *The Issue of The Mormon Baptisms of Jewish Holocaust Victims - Mormons Hijack Dead or Alive Jewish Souls *jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/ldsagree.html “…their baptismal records place before the public a revisionist view that these deceased Jews were Mormons, a position they would have rejected in life.”
3. From the Simon Wiesenthal Centre - tinyurl.com/4xx96m “Simon Wiesenthal was one of the great Jews in the post-Holocaust period. He proudly lived as a Jew, died as a Jew, demanded justice for the millions of the victims of the Holocaust, and, at his request was buried in the State of Israel. It is sacrilegious for the Mormon faith to desecrate his memory by suggesting that Jews on their own are not worthy enough to receive G-ds’ eternal blessing, “added Rabbi Hier.

(Emphasis mine, I think Catholics should reason the same thing)

Both Catholic and Jews have asked Mormons to discontinue the practice. I wondered if Muslims’ had also dealt with Mormon posthumous baptism.

 

[Susan_Mary]

I didn’t know about the Irish problem, how very distressing for them.

In all my research, I’ve yet to find anything where Mormons baptize-by-proxy the dead of Muslims. Is it because Muslims don’t mind, which I highly doubt, or because of the reputation of radical Islam?

If it’s the later, perhaps the work the Mormon ‘prophets’ claimed to be vital isn’t quite so vital after all.