Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00521)

If my memory serves me right, the group that contested this action by the
Mormons was a Holocaust Survivers group as the Mormons were using the
lists of holocaust victims and doing the vicarious baptisms in their
behalf. It was argued that since these 6 million died solely due to their
Jewishness, which they did not give up, hide or in any way compromise,
that to "baptize" them into any form of Christianity was a mockery of all
they endured. Understandable to say the least!

Larry 

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:18:40 -0500 Bart Lidofsky <bartl@sprynet.com>
writes:

One aspect of Judaism which is not understood by many who 
> belong to
> religions with central organizations is that there is no central
> organization of Judaism; at most, there are educational institutions
> that give out rabbinical degrees which have organizations, but, with 
> the
> exception of the Hassidic cults, only the rabbis need worry about 
> these.
> Any individual Jew can belong to any (and as many) congregation(s) 
> that
> he or she chooses, so long as they respect the members of those
> congregations (and, for the most part, even if they don't). 
> 
> In other words, there is no single Jew or even group of Jews 
> who can
> speak for all, or even most Jews (as has been pointed out here, 
> there
> are even groups of Jews who believe that Israel is an illegitimate
> state). 
> 
> Bart Lidofsky
> 
> 
> 
> 
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