Posted on 06/17/2007 9:57:45 PM PDT by Plutarch
“All your silly answers do not make you right.”
Great, don’t quote a silly answer or rebut it, just claim it silly. Do you think if I claimed you were a monkey from the moon that would make you one? Of course not.
“You still want to judge Romney Presidential qualifications based on his Mormon faith and that goes against everything this great nation was founded upon.”
I guess that’s why we’ve had so many atheist Presidents. Oh wait, I guess Americans DO judge based on faith. They just don’t judge the way you would dictate. I’ll buy you a Junior Citizens Voter Watchdog chair so you can sit in voting booths and judge each voter on whether they take religion into account.
“You can lie and spin all what you want but that is the simple fact about you.”
Humm, no quotes to back what you say up, just epithets and slander. Seems typical of your mental abilities - all hat no cattle.
On another thread I was responding to the following Wall Street Journal excerpt:
Mr. Romney notes the indisputable fact that most Americans are religious and goes on to say: "I think the American people want a person of faith to lead the country. I don't think Americans care what brand of faith someone has." That is not entirely true.
In response to WSJ, I wrote this: Oh. A scientologist in the Oval Office? (Oh who cares?) A wicca priestess? (Oh, as long as it's a person of faith.)
Ya know, somebody should tell the multiculturalists that the shamans of the east and west are "people of faith" but that any ole "religious brand" isn't interchangeable with any & all others. Witchcraft adherents are people of "faith" but the object of their faith does not correspond with say, the object of faith of many of the founders of this nation. Had our nation been founded by "people of faith" such as shamans & witches, our nation would be a totally different nation today.
In "It's a Wonderful Life," you remove the Bailey clan & you get Pottersville. In our country, were you to remove the Christians at the helm of its foundation, & you get a similar "Pottersville."
If there's one lesson the movie "The Wizard of Oz" taught viewers is that any ole faith won't cut it. "The great and 'all-powerful' Oz" was a mere man who dabbled in smoke & thunder & trinket & trophy-giving; he was a great deceiver who relied upon fear to manipulate the locals.
The only entities in that movie who had any real supernatural power (other than manipulating the masses) were the two witches, and we never really saw a full resume' of the supposed "good" witch to know enough about her other than she was pro-Dorothy.
It doesn't matter if faith is "sincere;" folks can be sincerely wrong when it comes to both the universals & defining (& knowing) the true Power of the Universe.
It's simple: Most of the founders of this country were truly Christians, not Mormons. You'll notice in the founding documents, they didn't cater to Native American religion & include Native American rituals from dozens of tribes (or even one tribe) or Native American prayers when they convened.
As far as the second half of this statement goes, the LDS publication, Ensign magazine, made a similar statement way back (about 30 yrs ago)--that the LDS worship a different god than Christendom. Why is then this construed by the Romney camp & others as an "attack upon religion?" The LDS church has already said something similar.
So the LDS church, Romney included, can label everyone else (all non-LDS) an apostate from the true faith & full of "abominable creeds" according to Mormon scripture (Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith - History, verse 19) & that's not "attacking" any one, but somebody can merely cite that even the LDS acknowledge they have a different God & that's "attacking?"
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