Elie Wiesel escaped the concentration camps of Nazi Germany and then wrote a bestselling, critically acclaimed book describing his harrowing experiences (Night). So you might think he knows something about God and suffering. For this reason I paid close attention when Wiesel turned to address the problem of suffering in his 1995 book All Rivers Run to […]
Elie Wiesel
From Mormon proxy baptism to alien spaceship impact coverage … and beyond!
Sadly, nobody chose to engage with my Pascalian defense of the Mormon practice of baptizing for the dead. I’ll return to that point at the end of this article. However, let me begin by giving you another illustration. Mormon proxy baptism and alien spaceship impact coverage Imagine that when you buy house insurance the insurance […]
What’s wrong with Mormons performing proxy Jewish baptisms? How about nothing.
For some time now a controversy has been brewing over Mormons engaging in proxy baptisms of Jews who died in the holocaust. (The theological belief behind the practice is that when Mormons are baptized in the temple in the name of deceased non-Mormons they make it possible for those people to find salvation in the […]
