Those crazy Mormons

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

The article I read pointed out that the upset is that future historians will have lists of Mormons who were killed in the Holocaust. And since the Mormons have an obsession with genealogical databases, they really do have an influence over what future historians will know about our religious make-up.

That may be a valid issue (data integrity always is over the centuries) but per the article linked above anyway, that is explicitly not the issue here. They're upset about it happening even if that person does not end up in the International Genealogical Index (the database that lists all ordained -- personal or vicarious -- Mormons):

"Baptism of a Jewish Holocaust victim and then merely removing that name from the database is just not acceptable," said Michel...

But as JWBear says, I doubt that in a couple centuries anybody is going to think Adolf Hitler or George Washington or Albert Einstein were Mormons just because they show up in a database. In fact, I would guess that if anything it will eventually cast doubt on just how many Mormons there actually were.

Also, I'd point out my little thing in my humorous post about the dead person being immune to re-baptism is they so choose. It should be noted that the Mormons already believe that. They baptize the dead, and the dead, in the afterlife, have the ability to reject it. So spiritually it seems to me no harm, no foul, and isn't it fun watching people squabble over nonsense.

And yes, they do American Indians, if they can learn their names (that is why they do the genealogical research, they have to know the name) as well as any other person including you or me eventually.