Posted on 12/12/2007 6:04:34 AM PST by libstripper
“Okay, folks, let me be blunt. Because Mr. Huckabee is using things such as this to get votes and it is not reflecting very well on his character.”
but it’s ok for Mitt to pass himself off as a mainstream christian in order to get votes?
I’m not even going to respond to that.
because you can’t.
While Mormonism does believe kooky things not in that “authoritative encyclopedia of Mormonism,” Huck is stupid to ask a question like that.
He really is lacking in brain cells and would get killed in the general election...
And this proves that the LDS are not Christians in the traditional sense which is all evangelicals have been saying! And yet Mormons have taken offense and have tried to confuse the issue and deceive non-mormons into believing the Mormon Christ and the Traditional Christ are one and the same. Thank you for proving my point! Romney should have done this.
As to being 'properly taught' that's a matter of opinion. I myself don't believe those who follow an affirmed false prophet are necessarily being properly taught. If the prophecies were false so is the teaching.
Well, this belief is in the Mormon documents....they just hide it from current beliefs.
Still, Huck was very stupid asking that question.
I’m pretty sure none of us Christians want this kind of guy as a president. He ought to just stay a preacher and be satisfied. The minute he started making the comment of Jesus and Satan as brothers within the Mormon religion...I could hear them Baptist wheels grinding away....and I’m not going to have some preacher getting my vote. I would sooner vote for Al Gore, than put a Baptist minister into office....who acts the position for four years.
What we are probably dealing with is a continual rain of them from outer space as well as ongoing production in the world ocean itself ~ not an initial, one time fits all, Creation ~ rather an ongoing sort of thing that continued on into the Second Week.
Conservativegramma at #231 already beat me to the punch. As did Texas Songwriter at #183. You really didn't go back and read that one, did you? I'm trying to be nice here, but I'm beginning to realize that you don't know your own Mormon Church doctrines. Your own leaders state that it is another Jesus, not the traditional one of the Bible. You know, the one who was born of physical love making between the God of the earth (Elohim) and Mary. The son of one of the many Gods. The one who worked out his own salvation while on earth, the one who is your brother because just like him you too can be justified and be elevated to God status. The one who's brother is Satan (yeah Huckabee had it right)....I could go on, but I think my head is going to explode. Do you really not know the difference? Wow, what flavor is the Koolaid.
Straw man. If LDS can be insulted by their own beliefs, doesn't that say something about the beliefs to begin with?
If you want to go around & label a good chunk of the Evangelicals as "religious bigots," & yet you don't think you're not insulting folks...
The question is who exactly gets to decide who is Christian? Do I get to call you a cultic Non-Christian or just you? Is it really helpful to do that? I don’t do that to my neighbors or my friends however differently we believe. Do I believe I have a correct interpretation of scripture? You bet! Do you? Of course...so what....
They are really two different issues, but the LDS in SLC do, in fact, recognize success in ways not exactly common in most churches these days ~ rather more like Catholicism in France in the 15th Century.
Then, someone like Ted Kennedy would have had a chance at being appointed Cardinal. Today he must suffice with the status of almost-lapsed Catholic.
The point being, although some things the Mormons do seem unusual, those actions used to be common elsewhere.
LadyNavyVet has been a class-act poster on this thread and has NEVER called anyone a bigot.
Come on over to the Dark Side ~ we have more fun you know.
“solely to gain converts.”
Or, in Mitt’s case - solely to gain votes.
Hey, I’m watching the GOP debate right now and all I am seeming to hear is Mr. Romney saying, “I want converts, I want converts.”
Still waiting to see which of the Mormons here are “too bigoted” to vote for a Scientologist (assuming he was a conservative).
If you are consistent with your rhetoric, you would.
But I think most would not vote for someone they consider to be a cult member.
Thoughts?
I don’t like the tone of Huckabee’s campaign. We ought to be debating policies, both foreign and domestic: economics, taxation, nat’l security, energy, etc., not dogmas of the various churches.
I am a rather traditional Catholic, and it offends me to hear any candidate question another candidate’s religious dogmas. The only thing that is important to me in a candidate is whether he/she is a decent human being, a patriotic American, a conservative, a good role model, etc. I think Mitt Romney fits all of those criteria, although he may be less conservative that some other candidates.
Personally I have not decided yet which candidate I prefer. I did have Huckabee listed as a possibility, but now I am ruling him out. Since he’s into mouthing off about dogmas, it’s just a matter of time when he will go off on Catholics too.
So, he has made my choice a narrower one. I like Hunter, Thompson, Romney, Guiliani, McCain in that order. But, I don’t think Hunter has a ghost of a chance, unfortunately.
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