How do Mormons and Jews see Each Other?

[The Sushi Bandit]

Since I am an athiest I have a just a small understanding on how they view each other's religion.
Please educate me!

[Richard D]

1. From as far apart as humanly and physically possible?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. With their eyes, but seriously.

Mormons keep geneological records of Jews for this reason. They take the liberty of converting Jews after their deaths to Mormonism and that way, everything is kept in order. So I have been told.

Jews on the other hand regard Mormons as just another group of gentiles, goyim, etc.

[rockymountaindem]

3. I, a Jew, feel positively toward them

In my experience growing up in a neighborhood that was largely evangelical Protestants or and Mormons, I would say that the Mormons were generally more respectful toward my beliefs. If you didn't want to talk about religion, they didn't make you, unlike certain evangelicals I knew who would simply bring it up all the time.

In the history of Utah there has been a Jewish governor (during the 20's) and a Jewish mayor of Salt Lake City before that.

[still_one]

4. Why just Mormons and Jews? What is your point? /nt

[KamaAina]

12. Is this about Glenn Beckkk (prominent Mormon) trying to turn Yom Kippur into an RW hatefest?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6600253&mesg_id=6600253

:wtf:

[SidneyCarton]

14. Beck is the eternal opportunist, he will doubtless also hijack

Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Halloween to back up his line of bull too. (We already know what the folks at Fox think about Christmas)

(Edited for spelling)

[The Sushi Bandit]

19. Yep!

[tishaLA]

5. Jews have had an animus toward Mormons because of posthumous baptisms

Mormons were baptizing Jews, including Jews who died in the Holocaust, posthumously and a lot of people thought it was rather unseemly behavior. LDS said the practice would stop, but somehow people found out it was continuing.

[Happyhippychick]

6. Proselytizing is absolutely forbidden in Judaism. This Jew has been very uncomfortable around

Mormons for that very reason. A polite "no thank you I'm Jewish" or "no thank you I'm not interested" does not ever seem to be respected. I usually have to say "no" about three or four times, sometimes in a huff, in order to get the proselytizing stop.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Mormons see Jews in the same light as every other religion.

[CanonRay]

8. On the sly

:evilgrin:

[Lifelong Protester]

9. My long gone aunt lived in Utah one year of her married life

(my uncle was in the military and stationed there) and she always referred to Utah as the place where "even a Jew could be a gentile"! I assume that means that Mormons see all others as gentiles?

And yes, I have heard that there is animosity caused by the posthumus baptisms of people of MANY faiths or none, as the case may be. I have also heard of living folks finding out they were listed on the Mormon roll as 'collateral relatives' and thus baptised. Any truth to that, I wonder?

[KharmaTrain]

10. Pre 1948 vs. 1948

In fairness the conflict between Jews and Moslems in Israel/Palestine began in the 30's. Prior to that Jews found better living conditions in Arab countries. The Koran recognizes Jews as being "chosen people" and allowed them to live and worship freely as opposed to what was happening in Europe. One of the Jewish "golden ages" was when the Moors or Moslems occupied Spain prior to 1492. Also prior to the establishment of the state of Israel there were large Jewish communities in virtually every Arabic country.

That all changed in 1948 as politics trumped in with the establishment of the State of Israel. Just as Palestinians were expelled from their homes, so were Jews throughout the Middle East. Those that remained faced greater and greater discrimination. Today the two religions view each other with distrust...which has been exploited by politicians on both sides for their own power.

[marybourg]

15. Mormons, not Muslims (or Moslems). Is it bi-focal time? nt

[still_one]

18. LOL. That is actually quite funny. Reminds me of Rossana Dana of SNL

Gilda Ratner, no offense

[RagAss]

11. With their eyes.

[SidneyCarton]

13. Mormons see Jews as distant Cousins.

It is our belief that in accepting Baptism one is becoming adopted into the Abrahamic Covenant.

[old mark]

16. My resident Jew - my wife - says she feels that the Mormon idea that

they are decended from a "lost tribe of Israel" is disgusting.
Read some of the basic premises of the LDS religion, make your own decision.

Personally, I find their practice of "converting" everyone's dead relatives to LDS via computers is one of the sickest things I have ever heard, even for "christianity".

mark

[burning rain]

17. Amusingly, since Mormons traditionally call non-Mormons "gentiles"....

they can term Jews that--a real switcheroo. Sort of like Amish referring to non-Amish as "the English": I bet Irish and French folks wouldn't be crazy about that!