Posted on 04/22/2012 1:25:08 PM PDT by Colofornian
(CNN) Liberty University students and alumni are accusing the Christian school of violating its own teachings by asking Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a member of the Church of...Mormons, to deliver its 2012 commencement address.
By Friday morning, more than 700 comments had been posted on the school’s Facebook page about the Thursday announcement – a majority of them decidedly against the Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr.’s invitation, citing that the school had taught them Mormonism isn’t part of the Christian faith.
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They are absolutely right. Mormonism is no more Christian than is Islam. Both of them were flaky neo-pagan cults that referenced a few Biblical things (mostly OT, but some references to Jesus as a prophet) and then went off on their own...the planet Kolub, the founder looking through a crystal in his hat to find gold, the married god with his harem, male believers getting their own planets, the prophet getting child brides, killers getting 72 virgins, the black meteor in Mecca with its vagina-shaped silver hole...it’s a little hard to tell the difference.
The Catholic Church does not accept Mormon baptisms as legitimate, incidentally, because the Mormon intention is not to baptize a child into the life of the Trinity, but to claim the child for their cult. I think most orthodox Protestants don’t accept it either.
That’s not the same. This strain of Protestantism hated Catholics and was dominant in the South and made life ugly for Catholics hre, but at the same time, there was no doubt that there was such a thing as a Christian faith. While they hated Catholics (who were hated as much as blacks in the South, and were also attacked by the KKK), almost all of them realized that this was an inter-Christian dispute.
The problem with Mormonism is that it is NOT CHRISTIAN, and this school has no defense for permitting somebody like that to speak to them. Well, unless they present him as a non-Christian they feature, such as some Hindu who might be a good speaker...but they’re not doing that.
That school shouldn’t have a Mormon speaker, because Mormons are NOT Christians.
Glenn Beck spoke there, didn’t he?
Mormonism’s theology is not orthodox.
Obama’s black liberation theology is not orthodox.
If you want to vote for someone ELECTABLE, I am sorry, but it is going to have to be ONE of those two people (as it stands today—of course that could change).
So if you’re going to base your vote on theology, you’re not going to be able to vote for an orthodox Christian believer.
God bless these students and alumni.
At least Catholics are Christians. Did you know that? Mormons are not!
But they say they are, so they must be! /s
So let me understand this. Would the students object to Obama delivering the commencement address? If they would accept Obama but not Romney, just what would that mean?
“Would the students object to Obama delivering the commencement address? “
You’d have to ask the students that.
Haven’t they ever had a non-christian speak at the college before?
It sounds like you’re implying that Obama is “a Christian with an African name”, but I must be missing something.
For clearification: First, “Barack Hussein Obama” isn’t an African name. Second, he wrote in his own autobiography that “when an ill wind blows, I’ll stand with the Muslims”. Third, the “Christian” church he attended preached Black Liberation Theology — definitely not Christian.
Romney’s cult is just as bad.
You’d think that in America we could come up with one single solitary Christian to run for president. Couldn’t we find ONE???
Hope for the future.
Uh, you might want to rephrase that.
Uh, you might want to rephrase that.
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You are so right, Eric. Religion is Christianity’s worst enemy!
He is a LIAR on every major issue that is important to conservatives!
When I get tired of a certain subject on F.R., I just quit clicking on them myself.
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