The LDS church believes that you must be baptized to become a member. Baptism of the dead allows people who have died to have the opportunity to be baptized, since you can only be baptized when you have a mortal body, and dead people don't have that anymore.
Think of it as a guest list to get into a huge party at Stampede, if you are on the guest list you can get in if you show up. If you don't show up, who cares if your name was on the list?
I can see Holocaust survivors being upset though, since they don't believe in / fully understand the doctrine.
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Lastly, it really messes up the history books. It almost feels like a conquest of sorts.
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There is no actual change of religion. However, if this person is living in the afterlife somewhere and suddenly decides to join the LDS church, they can. At which point they would become Mormon...in the afterlife... which certainly would not affect any history books