Posted on 01/08/2008 4:09:13 PM PST by tantiboh
Mitt Romney is facing an unexpected challenge in Iowa from rival Mike Huckabee, who has enjoyed a groundswell of support from religious voters, particularly evangelical Christians wary of the clean-cut former Massachusetts governor because of his Mormon religion.
The common worry among evangelicals is that if Romney were to capture the White House, his presidency would give legitimacy to a religion they believe is a cult. Since the LDS church places heavy emphasis on proselytizing -- there are 53,000 LDS missionaries worldwide -- many mainstream Christians are afraid that Mormon recruiting efforts would increase and that LDS membership rolls would swell.
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THE ONLY PROBLEM with those fears is that they don't add up. Evangelicals may be surprised to learn that the growth of church membership in Massachusetts slowed substantially during Romney's tenure as governor. In fact, one could make the absurdly simplistic argument that Romney was bad for Mormonism.
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ONE WAY TO GAUGE what might happen under a President Romney would be to look at what happened during the period of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Held in Salt Lake City, they were dubbed the "Mormon Olympics."
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Despite all the increased attention, worldwide the Church grew only slightly, and in fact in the year leading up to the games the total number of congregations fell. Overall, from 2000 to 2004, there was a 10.9 percent increase in memberships and a 3.6 percent increase in congregations.
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The LDS church is likely to continue its current modest-but-impressive growth whether or not Romney wins the White House. Perhaps the only real worry for evangelicals is that, if elected, the former Massachusetts governor will demonstrate to Americans that Mormons don't have horns.
Carrie Sheffield, a member of the LDS Church, is a writer living in Washington, D.C.
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It's just too bad your Founder and early leaders didn't "follow the Scriptures" when that POLYGAMY thing came along.
I'll take your word for it..PLEASE don't prove it ;)
No where was anyone of today being 'held accountable' for the past.
They ARE, however, being 'held accountable' for continuing to remain in an organization thats own history and writings condemn them.
No 'speculation' about it.
Your Founder and past leaders have.
You 'believe' thin air.
Like Cuba has said to Tom,
There is NO command from GOD to be found in your Scriptures for polygamy.
This is wrong.
You CANNOT show in Scripture where GOD 'commanded' Abram to take a wife other than Sarai.
Define FULLY.
Your past leaders laid it out in the
OFFICIAL DECLARATION—1.
Just wait...
SOMETHING that gets posted factually about your Beloved Organization will toss him(?) into that category.
I think the title should remain. These Mormon stalkers have been around for years on the FR's religious threads bashing any individual who would care to listen. They're just visiting over here in the "news" sections since a Mormon is running for president. They believe its their ministry.
Dang you to HECK!!
Can't you tell by now that FACTS to us are like Sunlight to Dracula??
QUIT IT!!!
--MormonDude(WHY are the ANTI's ALWAYS trying to upset us good, family loving, Conservative {the Hope for America}, mostly REPUBLICAN, LDS Organization® members?)
You're in for a big disappointment. Check Elsie's message history. I'm afraid its spilled over for many years already.
Circular Logic 101?
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Galatians 1:7-10
7. Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 8. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. 2 Corinthians 11:14-15
14. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.
If one believes the Bible is correct, then, by that Standard, Mormonism fails the test.
If, however, you are convinced that the Bible is either in error, been corrupted or mis-interpreted, then you are free to believe whatever you wish.
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Translated: "What everyone fails to see is that evidence is free for you and me to be what it will be when we shape it to fit what we want to see."
Circular Logic 101.
I found this on another site ...
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When you boil it down to essential meaning, the writings of leading Mormon apologists are the equivalent.
Here’s my impression:
If you have a problem with the shizzle dizzel of the bifurcated science proving the authenticity of the Book of Mormon and the validity of the testimonies of the Witnesses, you have to assume the glickenshock of the spazzofraz.
What everyone fails to see is that evidence is free for you and me to be what it will be when we shape it to fit what we want to see.
In conclusion, the tortured minds of the anti-Mormon fragmeisters of bizumdooferhausen have proven the penetrational plumfuzz of a groidian baffleputz, which clearly indicates that my position is at least as valid as those of my detractors who are decombobbulated under a regime of deleterious cognitive factors.
The anti-Mormons would have you think otherwise, but as usual they are dead wrong as proven by multiple analyses of the grablockean blitten techniques of regressional devices of constructive gestalt and stuff.
I have footnotes and original documentation to support every one of the above claims. But this is not the place.
Romney is the last option left. The rest can go to hell...
Standing up on the national stage next to a short, fat old hag, the last thing the Republicans need is a weak, frail old man.
Romney is a vibrant, healthy man and like it or not, in our image driven society, it is solely that image that will elect him.
Now tell me how Biblical is it for a phony like McCain or Huckabee to cozy up to a pagan empire like China and to sell the birthright of our children to a bunch of invaders that are filling our prisons for drug smuggling, rape and gang warfare in the streets???
#1196.
Great minds think alike. LOL
How Biblical is it for a phony like McCain, Julie-Annie or Huckabee who cozy up to a pagan empire like China and to sell the birthright of our children to a bunch of invaders that are filling our prisons for drug smuggling, rape and gang warfare in the streets???
Yup - that's almost it!
We are CHRISTIANS first, and Conservative AMERICANS second.
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