Posted on 12/12/2007 6:04:34 AM PST by libstripper
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"
The article, to be published in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, says Huckabee asked the question after saying he believes Mormonism is a religion but doesn't know much about it. His rival Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, is a member of the Mormon church, which is known officially as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The authoritative Encyclopedia of Mormonism, published in 1992, does not refer to Jesus and Satan as brothers. It speaks of Jesus as the son of God and of Satan as a fallen angel, which is a Biblical account.
A spokeswoman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Huckabee's question is usually raised by those who wish to smear the Mormon faith rather than clarify doctrine.
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For a fleeting moment, I almost liked Hukabee. After this idiocy, there’s no way I’ll vote for him. If he gets the nomination, I’ll not vote. Period.
Huckabee needs to decide whether he wants to be a preacher or a President.
There’s another thread on this. What Huck said seems to be true according to the Mormon website
Huckabee is not my kind of Christian...
This kind of my religion vs your religion stuff will kill both candidates. I’m pretty sure most voters don’t want to hear that.
I would think a minister would be a little more knowledgeable about other religions - guess he missed the course on Comparative Religions.
I’m that way about most of the Republican hopefuls. The more I hear about him, the better and better Duncan Hunter is sounding. I just worry we’re going to get to the election with a Democrat on one side and a Democrat with an (R) by their name on the other.
Amazing.
IF TRUE, Huckabee is resorting to the worst kind of prejudice, and is doing so either out of extreme ignorance or extreme evil. I don’t know which case is worse, but it would vehemently disqualify him for ANY elected office at ANY level. A dogcatcher shouldn’t be so stupid.
Supernaturalist food fight ping.
Oh dear. That's the way Muslims talk when you ask them about the Koran's instructions to kill infidels. Why doesn't she answer the question?
Maybe this is a blessing, and maybe, just maybe we will be done with this fraud....
Agreed. From a theological viewpoint, I have some problems with Mormonism, but I don't have any problems with the way Romney seems to have lived his life. In the presidency, a devout Mormon is far more acceptable than a devout liberal.
IMO conservatives and Repubicans need to split from the Values Voters and Social Conservatives.
I’m not in the smearing business so I’ll ignore this.
The pre-Christmas window of smear opportunities is running out for those who feel threatened by Huckabee’s rise.
But this story seems to show that the NYT wants to get people angry at each other with this Mormon vs. Evangelical incitement.
I yawn and walk away.....
Where is that from?
Do you have a link to the other thread?
Glenn Beck is talking about this right now, or rather, he’s talking around it - assailing Huckabee for what he said but not answering the question. The closest he’s come is saying something sarcastic about Stu and Hitler being Christian brothers, followed by “didn’t God create all?” Implying that God created the evil and the good, implying that Jesus is a created being.
That said, I think Huckabee is an idiot for doing this.
Observe the attempt to divert the attention of the ignorant from the fact that the entirity of the Catholic church (Eastern and Western branches, the Coptics, etc.) ALSO don't view any Mormon group as being a Christian denomination.
Turns out only a few Christian groups of any kind have a different position regarding Mormon beliefs.
And that's spin on my own part because I failed to qualify my own statement by noting that almost all Christian groups, of whatever stripe, have held at one time or the other that the others weren't really Christian!
The Treaty of Westphalia (signed to bring an end to the period of violence we call the Thirty Years War) obligated everyone to forget about what the other guys were doing at church ~ and get on with civilization.
The Mormons and the Orthodox, however, didn't sign that Treaty (the first didn't exist and the latter didn't get asked), so I suppose they have no signed obligation to keep their mouths shut on the issue.
Regardless of what this Mormon spokesperson says, Mormons DO believe that Jesus and the Devil are brothers.
Would a Mormon care to deny this?
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