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87+ People Mormons Have Baptized by Proxy

Perhaps the most controversial practice of Mormonism is baptism by proxy, in which dead souls are baptized. Live Mormons stand in for the dead during the dunking ceremony. In this way, a person who didn't accept the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints while he or she was alive has a chance to do it in the hereafter. According to the Deseret News—a daily newspaper owned by the Mormon Church—literally “millions” of dead people have been baptized by proxy.

At the end of 2002, the Mormon Church promised to stop baptizing dead Jews. They had promised the same thing several years earlier, but the practice was found to be continuing, so they promised again.

1. Abigail Adams

2. Menachem Begin

3. David Ben-Gurion

4. Napoleon Bonaparte

5. Eva Braun

6. James Buchanan

7. Buddha

8. Christopher Columbus

9. Albert Einstein

10. Dwight Eisenhower

11. St. Francis of Assisi

12. Anne Frank

15. Frederick the Great

14. Sigmund Freud

15. George Gordon, Lord Byron

16. Patrick Henry

17. Adolph Hitler

18. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

19. Joan of Arc

20. Ghengis Khan

21. Abraham Lincoln

22. Golda Meir

23. Paul Revere

24. William Shakespeare

25. Josef Stalin

26. Leo Tolstoy

27. Martin van Buren

28. Daniel Webster

29. William Wordsworth

30-86. all signers of the Declaration of Independence

87+.  numerous Jews who died in the Holocaust (figures cited range from 20,000 to 380,000)