 According to LDS Church general authority Monte J. Brough, "Mormons who baptized 380,000 Holocaust victims posthumously were motivated by love and compassion and did not understand their gesture might offend Jews ... they did not realize that what they intended as a 'Christian act of service' was 'misguided and insensitive'".Mormons believe that when the dead are baptized through proxy, they have the option of accepting or rejecting the ordinance.Since its origins in the 19th century, Mormonism has been compared to Islam, often by detractors of one religion or the other.