Romney may take his church’s doctrine more seriously than Reid does.
I make it no secret that I disagree with the theology of LDS. It sounds very much like something you would get if you took a plain vanilla mainstream evangelical church then stuck some Asimov sci-fi fantasy in the middle of it and the church then without blinking embraced the whole as holy writ. That’s not all the oddness, but to me it’s the most striking.
Trouble is, the MSM seems to dislike all religion equally (except humanistic faiths which disdain the supernatural). Whether it’s a planet close to God, or Moses on a mountain cloaked in smoke, the answer the MSM has is always, always nyet.
I make it no secret that I disagree with the theology of LDS. It sounds very much like something you would get if you took a plain vanilla mainstream evangelical church then stuck some Asimov sci-fi fantasy in the middle of it and the church then without blinking embraced the whole as holy writ. That’s not all the oddness, but to me it’s the most striking.
Trouble is, the MSM seems to dislike all religion equally (except humanistic faiths which disdain the supernatural). Whether it’s a planet close to God, or Moses on a mountain cloaked in smoke, the answer the MSM has is always, always nyet.
How dare you denigrate a Grand Master of Science Fiction by implying that he could have written the phantasmagoric entrancements of Joseph Smith.
The LDS story begins with the claim that a Pre-Columbian American culture was actually the lost Tribe of Israel, visited by Jesus and given the Book of Mormon on Golden Tablets that remained buried for millennia in upper New York State, only to be found after an Archangel, never mentioned in the Bible, named Moroni appeared to Joseph Smith to reveal the hiding place.
It is a shame that the Golden Tablets were promptly lost only after Smith had enough time to memorize them and dictate the contents to his disciples. Luckily, his followers were able to make notarized statements that they had seen the tablets before they were lost again.
In actuality it is clear you should have attributed the sci-fi fantasy to L. Ron Hubbard.
That's one of the best descriptions of mormonism I've ever seen!
Joseph Smith set up a huge scam that is ongoing today.
I refuse to vote for a man (or woman) who has taken this oath in what to him is his sacred temple:
"You and each of you covenant and promise before God, angels, and these witnesses at this altar, that you do accept the Law of Consecration as contained in the Doctrine and Covenants, in that you do consecrate yourselves, your time, talents, and everything with which the Lord has blessed you, or with which he may bless you, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for the building up of the Kingdom of God on the earth and for the establishment of Zion."
Does anyone believe that Romney will consider the welfare of the country over that of his church? I don't. Trading the Obama theocracy for the mormon theocracy, (and don't think there won't be an attempt to establish just that) would be devastating.
Mormonism teaches that it is foreordained that during the millennium the "righteous" (read mormons) will rule.
"President John Taylor taught: “The Lord will be king over all the earth, and
all mankind literally under his sovereignty, and every nation under the heavens
will have to acknowledge his authority, and bow to his scepter. Those who serve
him in righteousness will have communications with God, and with Jesus; will
have the ministering of angels, and will know the past, the present, and the
future; and other people, who may not yield full obedience to his laws,
nor be fully instructed in his covenants, will, nevertheless, have to yield full
obedience to his government. For it will be the reign of God upon the earth, and
he will enforce his laws, and command that obedience from the nations of the
world which is legitimately his right” (Teachings of Presidents of the
Church: John Taylor [2001], 225).