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Predatory proselytization
Mahatma Gandhi was posthumously baptized by proxy by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to a report in The Huffington Post.
Helen Radkey, a former Mormon who has until now has focused on researching incidents of proxy baptisms being proposed for or performed on dead Jews, discovered the Gandhi records on February 16 in a genealogical database restricted to Mormons. She was prompted to search for his name after seeing a statement by Rajan Zed of Nevada who expressed concern the practice might be performed in the name of many Hindus.
A screen shot of the database page sent to HuffPost by Radkey shows a proxy baptism for Gandhi was completed in a Salt LakeCity Temple on March27, 1996.
The church has explained that it conducts thepractice of proxy baptisms "because all who have lived on the earth havenot had the opportunity to be baptized by proper authority during life on earth.”
At this rate, they can convert all past Hindu saints into Mormons, by a trick of the hat!! Would it be Thiruvalluvar the next?
More details in Huffington Post
Mahatma Gandhi was posthumously baptized by proxy by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to a report in The Huffington Post.
Helen Radkey, a former Mormon who has until now has focused on researching incidents of proxy baptisms being proposed for or performed on dead Jews, discovered the Gandhi records on February 16 in a genealogical database restricted to Mormons. She was prompted to search for his name after seeing a statement by Rajan Zed of Nevada who expressed concern the practice might be performed in the name of many Hindus.
A screen shot of the database page sent to HuffPost by Radkey shows a proxy baptism for Gandhi was completed in a Salt LakeCity Temple on March27, 1996.
The church has explained that it conducts thepractice of proxy baptisms "because all who have lived on the earth havenot had the opportunity to be baptized by proper authority during life on earth.”
At this rate, they can convert all past Hindu saints into Mormons, by a trick of the hat!! Would it be Thiruvalluvar the next?
More details in Huffington Post
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