Religious silliness

Just about everyone knows who Anne Frank was, because of the post-war publication of her diary by the surviving members of her family.

Annelies Marie (Anne) Frank was born to a Jewish family on the 12^th of June 1929, in the German city of Frankfurt am Main. Her sister Margot was three years her senior and her parents were Otto and Edith. Due in large part to the harsh sanctions imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles after the capitulation of Germany that ended World War I, the German economy suffered in the 1920s. This indirectly led to the rise of the virulently anti-Semitic National German Socialist Workers Party (Nazi Party) led by Adolf Hitler. When Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 20, 1933, the Anne’s parents realised that it was time to flee. They moved to Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, in the second half of 1933. A little over six years later, Germany invaded the Netherlands. Anti-Jewish measures were almost immediately introduced. On July 5^th, 1942, Margot received an official summons to report to a work camp in Germany. The next day the Frank family went into hiding, with another family, in an empty space at the back of Otto’s company building. They spent two years in hiding, never going outside. They were betrayed by someone unknown and everyone in hiding was arrested on August 4^th, 1944. They eventually ended up in Auschwitz concentration camp a month later. Upon arrival, men and women were separated. This was the last time Otto ever saw his wife and daughters. Anne and Margot were transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany not long before Edith died in Auschwitz in January 6^th, 1945. Anne and Margot both contracted typhus and died within a day of each other in March 1945, only a few weeks before British army arrived. Anne was just 15 years old¹.

Anne Frank has become a symbol of the Holocaust and the millions who died in it, but to add a mind-blowingly bizarre twist to her story, she was allegedly baptised posthumously, in 2012, by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). According to whistle-blower Helen Radkey, a former member of the church, this ritual was conducted in a Mormon temple in the Dominican Republic. Believe it or not, this violates a 2010 pact that US Jewish leaders had to sign with the Mormon Church in an attempt to get them to stop. This is the first time in more than a decade that Frank’s name has been discovered in a database that can be used to submit a deceased person’s name to be considered for proxy baptism. Radkey has a screen shot of the database which has the word ‘completed’ against the categories ‘Baptism’ and ‘Confirmation’².

In addition to Anne Frank, Mormons have recently posthumously baptised at least 20 other Holocaust victims, as well as Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe and the Queen Mother, according to Radkey. In addition, the grandparents of public figures like Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg have also been baptised, as have ancestors of Carrie Fisher, Joe Biden and John McCain³.

This bizarre Mormon silliness is a symptom of the narcissistic behaviour of so many cults, who think theirs is the only true religion and that all others are lesser. And these people wonder why religion is in decline.

Sources

1. https://www.biography.com/activist/anne-frank
2. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mormons-posthumous-baptism-anne-frank_n_1292102
3. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/21/mormons-holocaust-victims-baptism-lds-church