Souls of dead Russians bought for posthumous batptism and conversion to Mormonism

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Mormons buy souls of dead Russians

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Who will buy?
Who would like to sample my supply?
Who's prepared to pay the price,
For a trip to paradise?
- Cole Porter

Money can't buy you love another song said but I guess it can buy you dead converts.

The Russian Orthodox Church has expressed its outrage at what it claims is a Mormon scheme to buy up the names of dead Russians in order to baptise 'dead souls' in their faith.

Nick Paton Walsh, The Guardian: Russians fume as Mormons 'buy souls'

Richard Evans Lee
November 23, 2003 • Permalink
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