Posted on 12/11/2007 4:12:59 PM PST by Tlaloc
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"
The article, to be published in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, says Huckabee asked the question after saying he believes Mormonism is a religion but doesn't know much about it. His rival Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, is a member of the Mormon church, which is known officially as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The authoritative Encyclopedia of Mormonism, published in 1992, does not refer to Jesus and Satan as brothers. It speaks of Jesus as the son of God and of Satan as a fallen angel, which is a Biblical account.
A spokeswoman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Huckabee's question is usually raised by those who wish to smear the Mormon faith rather than clarify doctrine.
"We believe, as other Christians believe and as Paul wrote, that God is the father of all," said the spokeswoman, Kim Farah. "That means that all beings were created by God and are his spirit children. Christ, on the other hand, was the only begotten in the flesh and we worship him as the son of God and the savior of mankind. Satan is the exact opposite of who Christ is and what he stands for."
Romney did not respond to a request for comment.
Earlier this month in Iowa, Huckabee wouldn't say whether he thought Mormonism — rival Romney's religion — was a cult.
"I'm just not going to go off into evaluating other people's doctrines and faiths. I think that is absolutely not a role for a president," the former Arkansas governor said.
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LOL
Keep it up boys and we can all bend over for Hillary or Obama.
Where does he get off asking something like that?! Yikes!
Let me restate it:
I can’t stand Mike Huckabee.
I have chastised several I’m-staying-home-if-they-nominate _________...so I won’t go so far as to say I’d vote for Hillary or stay home...but come on, we can do better than this dip sh*t.
:^)
He will talk himself out of the race. A lot of thinly-veneered anti-Mormon comments by this guy. This is the last thing the Party needs for its most loyal constituency (prob. 90 percent Republican).
Wow, Huckabee pretty much strikes me as someone that has no time for anyone that can’t be classified as an Evangelical Christian. I hesitate to use the word “bigot” because that gets thrown around a bit too loosely in this place, but damn.
This is actually a rather courageous move on the Huckster’s part. Anyone who doesn’t think so should go ahead and open a thread with the same line of questioning right here on FR and see how they’re treated by the Mitt followers.
This thread will definitely need some popcorn.
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Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
This guy is a frickin idiot, if people are drinking so much jesus-juice that they cant see him for what he is...we are all lost.
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Geez! This guy is really an obnoxious bigot.
The Huckster is a disaster waiting to happen, and the Rats are loving his rise in the polls: http://www.drudgereport.com/flashhu.htm
O.K. This is silly.
He asked a question. Its not like he said they believe it.
Is this fella off his rocker,,somebody put him back in his cage...
I believe that Huckabee and Satan are brothers. LOL!
Please disambiguate for me how Mormons are a race.
Satan to Jesus: “Don’t tase me, bro”
wow, I spent maybe ..... three minutes .... thinking Huckabee would be okay as president but that does it. He’s as nutty as Ron Paul.
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