“Bred to suffer in cuteness” is the best phrase ever.
Anne Frank, a Mormon
The writer also wonders about the Mormon practice of amassing archives of the dead and “praying them in” as a way to “retrospectively ‘baptize’ everybody as a convert.”
Hitchens noted that they “got hold of a list of those put to death by the Nazis’ Final Solution” and “began making these massacred Jews into honorary LDS members as well.” ….
The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank.
It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.
Mormons desisted in 1995 after Michel, as the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported, “discovered that his own mother, father, grandmother and best childhood friend, all from Mannheim, Germany, had been posthumously baptized.”
Michel told the news agency that “I was hurt that my parents, who were killed as Jews in Auschwitz, were being listed as members of the Mormon faith.”
Richard Bushman, a Mormon who is a professor emeritus of history at Columbia University, said that after “the Jewish dust-up,” Mormons “backed away” from “going to extravagant lengths to collect the names of every last person who ever lived and baptize them — even George Washington.”
Zomg: transition from “hell no” to “hello.” @2:15. Super politely.
Hello. Nice to meetchu.
Que tu viennes du ciel ou de l’enfer, qu’importe, Ô Beauté!
“Whether you come from heaven or hell, wha does it matter, O beauty.”
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Charles Baudelaire
upper trestles (by Sarah Lee)
(Source: kari-shma)
Sarah Palin on her daughter Bristol’s engagement to Levi
“Bristol at 19 is now a young adult. We obviously want what’s best for our children. Bristol believes in redemption and forgiveness to a degree most of us struggle to put in practice in our daily lives.”
Rahm “Israel” Emmanuel and Barack “hussein” Obama
During an interview Wednesday, when confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that “some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion.”
(taken and submitted by thearcticmonkeyphotography).
