This thread now belongs over in the Religion forum.
Let’s get back to politics please.
We will soon be debating how many angels fit on the head of a pin.
There is a very good reason why the Founders did not allow a religious test for holding national office.
This thread is an excellent example of their wisdom.
Before good friendships get torn asunder and even more accusations of lying, deceit,overall stupidity and lack of principle start flying all over the place, please refrain from personal attacks and get back to the political issues at hand.
The enemy is Obama, not our fellow Freepers.
It’s a well known fact that Romney lies like a rug. Trying to find out why. Was he taught to lie by the LDS when he was young? Does he in turn teach others to lie? Evading the truth is the same as lying.
The founding fathers never said anything about limiting people talking about religion and politics together.
That is your creation.
The "test" applies only to the govt...and candidates...doesn't "touch" voters...who can consider moral or immoral character issues and worldviews which are rooted in faith issues.
True.
Yet Romney has solidly been an "enemy" of the pre-born.
(That can't be swept under the rug)
And Romney is a Mormon-confessed "rival" of THE God -- claiming to be a "god in embryo."
People who abhor idolatry don't go 'round providing platforms for idolaters and providing them with ways to be elevated as idolaters.
Your notion of "religion" is seemingly quite compartmentalized. Yet if God judges cultures, He doesn't only "judge" the religious but the entire cultural apparatus. Yes, the apostle Peter prophesied that "judgment begins with the household of God"...but be sure...it won't end there.
The Founders did not want a religious test to be about a run for office, not once did they ever say an individual could not use a religious test.
No; he's not.
Satan is the ENEMY and the abundance of SIN in AMERICA is proof of it.
BOTH O and R are mere tools in the hand of our GOD.
(If not YOUR 'god', then the Creator of the Universe then)