More than just a little creepy

Although this is obviously a lot better than other traditional forms of religious disputes...like, oh, murder, it's both disrespectful and creepy -- not bigamy between an old man and a 13-year old girl creepy -- but rather "hey I'll look in my hat and see the Angel Maroni telling me I'm the awesomest kind of New-fangled White Native American" creepy -- well, maybe creepier than that.

Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice...

Baptism by proxy allows faithful Mormons to have their ancestors baptized into the 178-year-old church, which they believe reunites families in the afterlife.

Using genealogy records, the church also baptizes people who have died from all over the world and from different religions. Mormons stand in as proxies for the person being baptized and immerse themselves in a baptismal pool.

Hey, they're dead, they won't mind if they posthumously have the religion they were killed for holding as fucked-up, no biggie. Trivializing genocide, no problem -- just make a clerical alteration and voila, makes it all worth getting gassed, shot or garroted en masse, lucky Jews.

I'm not religious, but still something about this really pissed me off the more I started writing about this.