<div class="gmail_quote"><div>stathis wrote: <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I can't quite grasp this: wouldn't a Jew who believed that Mormon<br>
proxy baptism actually *does* something thereby be a believer in the<br>
Mormon faith? Or are they just worried that it's secular insult?</blockquote><div><br><br>The latter is the case but I do see your point about the former (and so do many other people!). The Roman Catholics are another group which is bothered by the Mormon practice of vicarious baptism for the dead. And their leadership has asked their members to withhold genealogical records and vital statistics from Mormon family history researchers. <br>
<br>John<br><br> </div></div><br>