I attend a fairly large church with a relatively well known pastor. It's funny; just this past Sunday, he delivered a sermon that chastised evangelicals for accepting Mormonism as a legitimate Christian faith.
I don't know that it was a "verbal assault," as the author puts it, but I just am not sure his statement is totally true.
Hewitt is hardly believable anymore due to his shameless shilling for Romney. That being said he is correct on this one.
“When Mike Huckabee asked a New York Times’ reporter, “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers,” he crossed a line he cannot uncross.”
If only Romney would respond with: “No. Hillary is Jesus’ SISTER.”
Obvious? What's obvious here other than once again the slimes deplore Christians? Come one Hugh...you are playing straight into the hands of the biggest right wing haters on earth. Christianophobia is not a view that I want would want pander to. They would love nothing more than to split Mormons against Protestants. Get a grip.
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Exactly. True colors shown, enough said for me (added to his illegal-embracing treachery).
What does Mitt Romney believe as a faithful Mormon?
http://bible-truth.org/Mitt%20Romney%20Mormon.html
1 And I, the Lord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That Satan, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the beginning, and he came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it; wherefore give me thine honor.
2 But, behold, my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning, said unto me—Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever.
3 Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be cast down;
4 And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice.
Spencer W. Kimball, Conference Report, April 1964, Pg.95:
"There is another power in this world forceful and vicious. In the wilderness of Judaea, on the temple's pinnacles and on the high mountain, a momentous contest took place between two brothers, Jehovah and Lucifer, sons of Elohim."
As a Mitt Romney supporter, even I sometimes want to tell Hugh to shut up already. :-)
But this is what they believe. So why not voice that?
I used to like Hewitt. Now he’s a caricature of a Romney cheerleader.
He’s embarrassing in his hatred for Huckabee.
FWIW, I’m inclined to vote for Romney. I won’t vote for Huckabee. But we can do without the nastiness against Huckabee.
How come the Media never accuses Hillary of a low blow?
Good article.
It might be useful to review how we got here. This fall Romney was touring the south saying “Vote for Me! I’m a Christian too!”, stupidly, or at least ill advisedly thinking that that would make the people there like him better. The people down there saw it as a challenge. No, you’re not a Christian and here’s why.
This was followed by moaning and hand wringing about anti-Mormon bigotry and a race by the PC-e-or than thou crowd to be the first to brag that a person’s religion means nothing to me. Which is nonsense that people tell pollsters but forget once they’re in the privacy of the voting booth.
As usual the main victim is the language. The word Christian has now become fuzzy and over broad. We will now have to use the modifier Trinitarian when precision is needed to represent what 99.99% of Christians believe.
The irony is Huckabee is displaying the same Clintonian characteristics he claims he can defeat, because of his experience with Clintonian politics.
Thats ridiculous, and wrong on two counts.
First, the Clintonites left Arkansas - the talented ones at any rate - in 1992. He never ‘ran against the Clinton machine’.
Second, Bill Clinton was much better at the ‘smear that doesn’t sound like a smear’.
Huckabee, from Hope Ark. as is Clinton, leaves a lot to be desired. He’s quick with the one liners. If Rip Van Winlkle woke up during the middle of Huck’s term as governor, he’d swear Huck was a RAT; high taxes, benefits for illegals, parole and pardons for lifers, soft on terrorists, soft on Cuba and on and on.
What’s the problem? Romney and Huckabee supporters just need to coalesce around the real conservative in the campaign - Fred Dalton Thompson. Dump the RINOs and go for the real deal, y’all.
C'mon Hugh, I love ya man, but you are wrong on this. I'll vote for Romney if he is the nominee, and I will root for him to be ready for a street fight with the democrat party over his religion. But if he can't take it in the primary, he'll buckle under the first punch of the general campaign.
One, he has shown the prejudice that some have against religious freedom, especially, among the evangelicals.
Two, he has shown by this position that he is unfit to lead a nation of many religions. If he doesn't understand religious freedom, how can he understand America?
Now, I don't know a whole lot about the LDS, I don't know a lot about the Moonies either, but the country has a protection to worship as you believe as long as you are not harming others.
Huck has stepped across the 'Crusades" line, and it will bury him. It was his Howard Dean moment, and nothing he says or does will help him out of the hole he has dug for himself.
The question now is this. Do the evangelicals want to be associated with this type of prejudice?
Hugh, I seldom defend Huckabee, but shutup already.
That most certainly WAS a ‘low blow’! I would have expected any democrat to stoop to that level—NOT a Republican. Even if a democrat had made that comment—it would have still been a ‘low blow’—and would have been seen that way by most voters.