Posted on 05/31/2011 12:32:57 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Is Mitt Romney trying to woo the teenage girl vote ahead of next year's presidential election?
In a potentially campaign-changing development, the 2012 presidential hopeful admitted to NBC's Jamie Gangel that he happens to be a fan of the "Twilight" series. The revelation came up during a discussion of books the former Massachusetts governor has read, including George W. Bush's recent memoir. But that's not all, Romney added.
"I like silly stuff, too," Romney volunteered. "I like the 'Twilight' series. That was fun."
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What is wrong with this guy?
Are you kidding me?? You could pay me to watch or read that crap. What small amount of respect I ever had for him is now gone.
Mit the undead ... somehow demonic undertow seems appropriate for Mittens and momronism (momronism, sort of a play on L Ron Hubbard and Mormonism, but in reality it’s just a typo).
Mitt the undead ... somehow demonic undertow seems appropriate for Mittens and momronism (momronism, sort of a play on L Ron Hubbard and Mormonism, but in reality it’s just a typo).
The more I read of your posts the more it appears you have no idea what spiritual discernment is. Being a Christian is more than being a Sig Ep or a Delta Ki, though too many pew warmers cannot see that. Without spiritual discernment, you’re a victim not a conqueror, though victimhood is so well disguised in our modern age, as the road broadens and the wide gate looms ever nearer.
Well, you see, MHGinTN...here’s the bald-faced truth...I get my spiritual discernment from the Word...the I AM! Not a freaking book of fiction about vampires! Nor does my religious discernment require me to see an evil boogie bear under every bed with the dusty bunny monsters.
NOW YOU TELL ME, that you go to a vampire book of fiction looking for your religious dogma...well, that’s fine with me! I don’t. But that’s just me!
I read strictly for entertainment, or education or curiosity...unless I am experiencing my relationship with Him as he teaches me, which I do by sitting down with the Word, placing my hands on it in reverance and having my time of day in His spiritual presence which he created in me.
Well, this post seems to confirm, you lack not only spiritual discernment, but perhaps have no thought as to the eternal destiny of those who worship ‘familiar gods’. Sad really, that you would tell us you’re a Southern Baptist yet have so little love for the perishing souls that you want us to ignore the wiles of the evil one even as they prance openly before you!
Might have known you would get it before I drag along ... good work, Brother.
MHGinTN...as a Christian it is ONLY my duty to lay down an invitation to others to come share with me the fulfillment of my faith in His grace. Even God did not require us to live in relationship with Him. He gave us all free will because he chose not to have a bunch of forced zomies as His partners in His work. NOR, did he make other people’s choices my responsibility, because He did not give me dominion over them. Nor does He judge, as you do. Because if he sat in judgment over our actions there wouldn’t be a man jack one of us left on this good earth because we are to the one an imperfect being. Even you.
See, there is the heart of your problem: you conflate discernment with judging. And I dare say you’re too closed minded by now to learn the fundamental differences so that God’s Spirit can direct your paths. It is the son of the lost who jumps to the twisted perspective you just spittled forth. The Bible teaches Christians that they must have and use spiritual discernment. Judging is the thing Jesus is doing and will do and is not, I repeat NOT in my or your purview. But to discern the work of evil in our midst is essential to our not enabling it to thrive. And obvious, we are failing in that regard since so many are wooed into this demonic foolery, like the Mitt and his mittiacs doing Romney apologetics.
So, it is your RELIGIOUS DISCERNMENT that I am defending Mitt Romney? Are you not able to read? I stated in my original post that I am not a Mitt Romney fan. I just will not condemn him for reading a series of books that are nothing to DISCERNING religious people but sci-fi entertainment. I have plenty of things to engage my dislike of Mitt Romney’s governance.
The big news was he said he thought South Park was funny.
Very unlike a stereotype Mormon.
Saying he liked Twilight and Scotty McCreery looks a lot like a transparent bid for the youth vote.
I'd have to say the Twilight series is better and better for kids than Glee.
But only just barely.
Those books are aimed at CHILDREN, who in most cases lack the religious discernment you speak of, so it’s up to their parents to do the discerning for them.
Ephesians 5:11 says, “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
If we aren’t ever supposed to judge, I wonder what the Apostle Paul meant by that? And do you think Paul would consider the Twilight series to be “fruitful works?” Isn’t there a good chance he would say they are “unfruitful works of darkness?”
I have no idea if you are actually born again or not, but if you are a Southern Baptist, you have been taught to believe the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, authoritative Word of God. And your Bible is replete with commands to flee from darkness. Flee from wolves in sheep’s clothing. Flee from error. Paul says let those who teach “another gospel” be accursed ( meaning go to hell).
Based on your tone I suspect you are quite young. You exhibit the brash hubris of youth, not the winsome work of the Holy Spirit. MHGinTN has some wisdom. You would be wise to check your ego and pay attention with a loving spirit.
If you haven't recognized it yet, the Mormon candidates (there are now two rising before us, and both are slicker than owl poop) have a small army on the Internet working to squelch their rejection if based on their adherence to the Mormon religion, a Christianity lookalike but through spiritual discernment an obvious fraud.
Personally, I don't even care if you like Romney or Huntsman or vote for either ... I made that mistake in the primaries, believing Romney's lies about changing to pro-life, because my favorite (Hunter) was out by then and I didn't want McInsane to get the nomination because the media and leftists wanted that weak slug to run against their affirmative action candidate.
I take issue with your defending a media service to the fundamental evil that runs rife in our society. Because so few have spiritual discernemnt, the evil no lobger slinks about, it can display openly under the guise of 'just a harmless vampire theme'. Do you really think vampirism themes are harmless? Do you really want your kids exposed to such demonically inspired sludge? Do you really want to be so tolerant that you cannot choose whom you will serve because you don't want to be 'judgmental'?
And before you make the next level mistake, to equate opposition to these services to evil as crusading embarassingly, know this: God directs the men of the household to set the standards by which his family will live and thrive, and that man is commanded (it's not a suggestion, it is a command) to exercise discernment and be the ultimate servant of and to the household. On rare occasions that will result in standing with others openly against that which corrodes spirtual life. But in the vast majnority of cases, just working through the household influence is what we ought do daily. When you voice an opinion on an Internet site, you've stepped into the public forum.
I have a precious granddaughter, and if my son or daughter-in-law were allowing her to get into this 'Twilight' stuff I would speak to them in no uncertain terms about how it is antithetical to being led by God's Spirit in the walk of life. Tahnkfully, my son is blessed with excellent spiritual discernment, so there is no chance she will stray in that direction.
“My own pastor and I had a huge disagreement over Halloween and he tried to force us to change it to ‘the Harvest Festival’ and not let the kids dress up like casper the friendly ghost...”
This Southern Baptist agrees with your pastor.
Oh shut up! I am most likely older than you are, have been practicing religion longer, have a degree minor in religioius studies, and have more discernment obviously than you do.
These books are no more threatening to CHILDREN than Snow White, The Brothers Grim, Hansel and Gretel, Bambi, Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie, or the Woodland Frolics Series.
CHILDREN do NOT look to books of fiction for their religious beliefs. They go to CHURCH with their families!
Now if you were pointing children to ‘Debbie Does Dallas’, Safe Fisting Practices, or trying to lure them to be Bunnies at the Turner mansion, then yes, that is evil. I would agree with you. But these books were perfectly entertaining, and the sex part was preaching abstinence for pete’s sakes. There was no language, drugs or perversions in them. Get a grip on yourself!
Oh, sure. She just couldn't help herself, I'll bet.....
So, seems like the closed minded aren’t just found here in my corner, now are they?
“19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
If what you are reading doesn’t indicate where your heart is, what does?
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