What is more irrational: Adhering to a set of moral principles and encouraging others to do the same, however mistaken some may believe those principles to be, or devoting hours upon hours on the computer tearing down the beliefs of others based on beliefs that themselves may be in error?
I’m not running for President. I get to spend irrational amounts of time on the internet pointing others in a direction that I came to understand in my teens.
Let me put it this way. I was born into a family very much like Romney. The only difference is, I found out the Joseph Smith was a fraud when I was about 12 years old. It took me years to extricate myself from my familial pressures to pretend a “faith” in something I knew to be a lie, but I did it. I still have moral principals. In fact it is my moral principals that drive me. Do you know that about 1/2 of the approximate 5,000,000 LDS members who live in the United States don’t believe the claims of Joseph Smith and in fact have left the Church. That leaves approximately 3,000,000 people in America that share his same irrational belief...whether or not that makes them “moral” is still a matter of debate. That is just 1% of the population. Many of the rest of us think he is deluded.
It took a great deal of personal fortitude for me to leave behind Mormonism. I basically had to leave everything I loved about my cultural heritage behind. BUT I did it. Can Romney not see that the claims of Mormonism are based upon a fraud? 99% of America can see it. Will they vote for a man who can’t?
Karl Marx was born in the same year as Joseph Smith. Followers of Karl Marx can be “moral” people. They too can be very successful in their financial life, and married to one spouse. Would you vote for that person?