When Steve Greenberg is not invidiously (and without support) lambasting limited government advocates and conservative elements in general, he presumes upon himself to lampoon an established religious community for performing bizarre rituals of enhanced safeguard for the journey of one prominent Jew into the Afterlife.
Granted, I find the practice of posthumous baptism both novel and unseemly, but ultimately uncompelling. Who really cares about these arcane practices among the adherents of a minority faith? More like a glowing celebration of life which many communities practice following the death of a loved, a post-mortem baptism is a mere formality which we can glibly ignore. Daniel Pearl was a journalist who did his job, reporting on unseemly elements in this world. The fetish-memorializing which has exploded around him from both Jewish and Gentile interest groups does more to mar the memory of this man than a simple ceremony somewhere in the mountain states.
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