Baptism

Having a Mormon run for President seems to bring out the strangeness is all of us.  Well, make that having a non-WASP run for President.  Here is Eugene Volokh talking about Mormon “posthumous baptisms”, with focus on the issue of posthumous baptisms by Mormons of Jews, whether Holocaust victims or otherwise.

Either the Mormons are right about their theology, or they’re wrong.  If they’re right, then the posthumous baptism will do good.  If they’re wrong (and, being not a Mormon, I by definition think they are wrong, or else I’d be a Mormon), then the baptism will have no effect whatsoever:  It is just some people going through some ineffectual — by hypothesis — rituals in their own temple, and I don’t see what it should be to me that those rituals use the names of (say) my late relatives, however much I love those relatives.

And let Stephen Colbert try to change as many dead Mormons as he wants into Jews.  That said, The Instapundit, law professor Glenn Reynolds, thinks Mr Colbert would never do a comedy sketch like that regarding Muslims.  At the link he explains why.

Regards  —  Cliff