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To: Iron Munro
I’m just saying I’m not comfortable using religion as a wedge issue. The country went through this back in 1960 over a Catholic running for office. And what if/when a Jew decides to run?

I thought I could hold my nose and vote for Romney if he got the nomination, but in hindsight I can't. I'd vote for a Jew or a Catholic in a heartbeat compared to supporting a Mormon. You might as well ask me to vote for a Muslim or Scientologist. This campaign by the Mormons to put ads out trying to downplay certain aspects and that they are normal is just making things all that much worse for Romney IMO.

I don't think it's a problem though - Romney is having a hard time breaking out of what appears to be a cap on his support.
242 posted on 10/10/2011 10:58:29 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: af_vet_rr; Iron Munro
I’m just saying I’m not comfortable using religion as a wedge issue. The country went through this back in 1960 over a Catholic running for office. [Iron Munro, post 240]

I thought I could hold my nose and vote for Romney if he got the nomination, but in hindsight I can't. I'd vote for a Jew or a Catholic in a heartbeat compared to supporting a Mormon. You might as well ask me to vote for a Muslim or Scientologist. This campaign by the Mormons to put ads out trying to downplay certain aspects and that they are normal is just making things all that much worse for Romney IMO. [af_vet_rr]

Bingo.

Are you trying to say, Iron Munro, that voting for say, a Scientologist is the same as considering a RC POTUS candidate?

Does this mean that voters are not to consider the other-worldly worldviews of a Scientologist POTUS? If a Scientologist runs for POTUS, supposed Thetans, the Planet Venus, and L. Ron Hubbard are all off-limits for discussion and weighing of that candidate?...just 'cause JFK was Roman Catholic?

Really?

See Similarities between Mormonism and Scientology

I mean, L. Ron Hubbard could have easily substituted Mormonism's Kolob for Venus in his religion.

Oh, and if you want to know what a "Thetan" is, here:

According to Scientology, when a person dies — or, in Scientology terms, when a thetan abandons its physical body — they go to a "landing station" on the planet Venus, where the thetan is re-implanted and told lies about its past life and its next life. The Venusians take the thetan, "capsule" it, and send it back to Earth to be dumped into the ocean off the coast of California. Source: Thetan (Wikipedia)

Seems to me that, per the Mormon myth narrative, when when an earthling is becoming "encapsuled" they leave from a "launching station" on the planet Kolob, where the Mormon spirit is implanted inside a human body, and once born with a Mormon family, the Mormon is told lies about its past life and its next life. The Mormon gods take the Mormon, "capsule" it in that body, and send it to Earth to be dumped at age 8 into the Mormon baptismal founts off of many international coasts.

259 posted on 10/11/2011 3:35:35 AM PDT by Colofornian (Anyone who can be duped by Joseph Smith can be duped by anyone.)
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