Posted on 07/24/2009 2:32:51 PM PDT by ComeUpHigher
Mormons: The Most Conservative Religious Group In America
That's according to a new report from Pew, released today and based on data from the group's 2007 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey.
More Mormons (60 percent) identify themselves as conservatives than any other religious group; they also lead every other group in GOP party identification (at 65 percent)--much higher than the general population in both categories
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.theatlantic.com ...
Then just what did Joseph Smith learn that was untrue about PRESBYTERIANism?
And the LURKERS are observing that you have NO idea what JS learned...
I guess most of them...
i missed th epart where Catholics and Baptists try to align themselves with mormonism - yet there are plenty here where mormons try to align themselves with mainstream Christians, while at the same time considering themselves the "One true faith" and the others heretical. Additionally, I dont see mormons accepting the creeds
Catholics and Baptists both try to align themselves with “Christianity”, just like Mormons do. Mormons don’t try to “align” themselves with the Catholic faith, since (as you note) they don’t support those other faiths.
The Catholic faith also, at some level, believes all other Christian faiths are heretical. And at the basest definition of “heretical”, most faiths to some degree or another find other faiths somewhat heretical — or certainly misguided, while they believe themselves to be the “true faith”.
But stepping beyond the religious discussion, this thread was about whether people who express a particular faith also adhered to commonly accepted conservative principles.
If you go through this thread and replace “Mormon” with “Catholic”, you will see that some posts argue that people of a certain faith simply can’t adhere to conservative political principles because of their faith. My point about swapping names was to get people thinking about how Mormons would feel reading about how they couldn’t be conservatives, or should quit the party, or weren’t welcomed.
Most people don’t notice attacks on others. So in general, a good way to figure out whether people are using bigoted attacks are to swap whatever religion, or sex, or heritage, is being referenced with your OWN religion/sex/heritage, and then ask yourself if you would consider what you are reading an attack on you with those changes.
If so, and if the references to religion/sex/heritage are not germaine to the discussion, then you are reading a bigoted attack.
oh so much nonsense in here - lets start
Both Catholics and Baptists hold an Apostolic lineage - traceable through history, to what are now, contemporary Christian churches.
Mormonism does not follow the same apostolic path - considering itself a restored church with the appearance of J Smith -
...and while Mormons dont align themselves with the Catholic faith, you ignored my subtlety that they do try and align themselves with contemporary Christians, contrasting of course with the fact that none align themselves with the heretical practices and doctrine of mormonism
Your "insert name here game and see if it smells the same" game is merely Scriptural relativism.
Mormonism is clearly heretical, worthy of correction
We aren’t discussing religion here, we are discussing politics. If you really don’t get that, you are part of the problem, and part of the reason conservatives can’t elect conservatives, because we are too busy throwing people out of the conservative movement because we disagree with their religion, or gender, or something else about them that has nothing to do with their political beliefs.
Your position is fortunately a minority position, for it is one which would relegate conservatives to minority status. Conservcatives cannot win a majority of the vote if it restricts itself to the minority of people who happen to practice the proper form of the proper religion.
Given a choice, I’d rather vote for a Christian, and further for one which has the appropriate beliefs regarding baptism, communion, and the reformation. But that hasn’t stopped me from voting for Catholics or even Methodists, or even for people who hadn’t had much time for religion at all, when the alternative was a person who, even if they had the correct religious beliefs, were wrong on the issues that matter in the political realm.
sorry I wasn’t there for this...I am currently in Iraq on active duty I love a good ole bash but prefer it one on one....you will never see that here on FR more like ants vs scorpion. anyway, I have been able to check in now that I’m not on so may patrols so keep me posted. thanks
Before there was a Romney you have had a problem with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!
My mentor has always been Cleon Skousen and this is his Legacy http://www.nccs.net/ just like Glenn Beck but you seem to ignore him!
I guess converts don’t count!
How disappointing and sad every opportunity you take swipes at the LDS!
As far as Harry Reid even Jesus has his Judas
Huh?
Mormons: The Most Conservative Religious Group In America
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ROFLMBO
Scrappleface, right ????
Catholics and Baptists both try to align themselves with “Christianity”, just like Mormons do.
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Ah, no...
Catholics and Baptists ARE Christians...
Mormons are...well... mormons...
We aren’t discussing religion here, we are discussing politics.
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Ah, no...
The intention was religion...
a member of the title religious sect posted this..
Good for them. And if their religion contributes to their being this conservative, more power to their religion.
Mormons: The Most Conservative Religious Group In AmericaIt is a discussion of a survey of the POLITICAL viewpoint of people professing different religious faiths, a survey which found that people professing the Mormon faith were the "most conservative".That's according to a new report from Pew, released today and based on data from the group's 2007 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey.
More Mormons (60 percent) identify themselves as conservatives than any other religious group; they also lead every other group in GOP party identification (at 65 percent)--much higher than the general population in both categories
In the thread, some posters suggested that we should reject the support of people of religions we don't agree with.
The discussion was about whether we should accept or reject political support (votes) from people of faiths other than our own.
It was NOT a discussion of whether a particular faith was correct or not, although some people tried to make it about the beliefs of the faith, rather than whether we should accept political support from people of other faiths.
There was no intent to argue that the religions was correct simply because it had a larger percentage of conservatives within the faith than others.
It was posted, I presume, with the intent of getting people of other faiths to stop attacking conservatives of the Mormon faith on a political forum, driving these conservatives away and making it harder to elect conservatives.
Now, personally I understand having a discussion of whether people from certian religious groups should be supported if they are running for office. I would be very hard-pressed to vote for a conservative who was a scientologist for example, although I won't normally withhold my vote simply because the person isn't christian. I've voted for a mormon, a jew, and supported a muslim before; and I regularly vote for Catholics.
But it surprises me how many conservatives don't even want to accept the SUPPORT of people of other faiths, and think the conservative movement would be better off if we only had good Christians in our movement. Which is a great concept for a church, but in my opinion a lousy way to build a political movement.
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