Is there anything worse then being a victim of the holocaust of World War 2? Yeah you could be baptized into the Mormon church!

Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.

Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say they are making changes to their massive genealogical database that will make it more difficult for names of Holocaust victims to be entered for posthumous baptism by proxy, a rite that has been a common Mormon practice for more than a century.

But Ernest Michel, honorary chairman of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, said that is not enough. At a news conference in New York City on Monday, he said the church also must ''implement a mechanism to undo what you have done.''

''Baptism of a Jewish Holocaust victim and then merely removing that name from the database is just not acceptable,'' said Michel, whose parents died at Auschwitz. He spoke on the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against Jews.

''We ask you to respect us and our Judaism just as we respect your religion,'' Michel said in a statement released ahead of the news conference. ''We ask you to leave our six million Jews, all victims of the Holocaust, alone, they suffered enough.''

What arrogance! Now I understand that EVERY religious belief is positive that they are the only true religion. I get that. But this requires such an extreme sense of superiority that it is galling.

I always have to chuckle when I hear certain religious groups talking about "religious freedom" and how important it is to protect it. We all know that if THEIR religion was protected and it were only other beliefs that were being discriminated against that they would not say a word about it.

The facts are that religions exist side by side in a very fragile detente. Each of them are certain that the beliefs of the other faiths are patently ridiculous. But they are unwilling, or unable, to apply that same scrutiny to their own faith.

As somebody who does not have a dog in this fight, I look at all religious beliefs through the same critical lens. I don't usually judge any one religion to be any more, or less, bizarre then the next.

But having said that I have to admit that the Mormon's seem to lack the humility that is the hallmark of other belief systems which I believe make them more palatable to the general population. Essentially the Mormons need to get over themselves and admit that their religion may in fact be completely full of shit.

So Mormons leave the Jews alone, unless you want them digging up your dead family members and performing circumcisions on them. Hey, it would only be fair!