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Poll: Romney's Mormon faith may not hurt him in TN
Nashville Tennessean
| 2/27/12
| Chas Sisk
Posted on 02/27/2012 9:32:01 AM PST by SmithL
Subheadline: Voters fear Romney's 'cult' less than they do Obama
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: election2012; mormons; romney; romney2012; santorum; southernvote; tn2012
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To: xzins
“Conservatism historically has accepted a low level of government involvement in both social and economic affairs.”
Exactly why neither is a conservative, thanks for pointing that out.
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posted on
02/27/2012 10:58:30 AM PST
by
JDW11235
(http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
To: JoeProBono
No carseats for the children ???
No seatbelts ???
22
posted on
02/27/2012 11:00:52 AM PST
by
Tennessee Nana
(Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
To: SmithL
The Tennessean
a lib newspaper that is pushing Romney..
Wait till he gets the nomination...
23
posted on
02/27/2012 11:02:46 AM PST
by
Tennessee Nana
(Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
To: SmithL
Poll: Romney's Mormon faith may not hurt him in TN Keep on whistling, as you're almost past the graveyard.
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posted on
02/27/2012 11:13:00 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: jimbo123
Subheadline: Voters fear Romney's 'cult' less than they do Obama Sub-Subheadline: Voters fear Romney's 'cult' more than they do Santorum's.
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posted on
02/27/2012 11:14:14 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: xzins
I hear an awful lot of folks attacking Santorums Catholicism, but I dont hear anyone attacking Mormonism.HMMmm...
I wonder if the ATTACKERS are MORMONs themselves??
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posted on
02/27/2012 11:19:31 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: xzins
I hear an awful lot of folks attacking Santorums Catholicism, but I dont hear anyone attacking Mormonism.They have to actually KNOW a bit about it, before they can 'attack' it successfully.
27
posted on
02/27/2012 11:20:58 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: xzins
I hear an awful lot of folks attacking Santorums Catholicism, but I dont hear anyone attacking Mormonism.Just wait until the PROTESTANTS hear about this!!!
Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).
Joseph Smith: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).
Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).
Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).
Orson Pratt also said: "This
great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (
Journal of Discourses , vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses , 18:172).
President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses , 10:127).
James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (A Study of the Articles of Faith, p.182).
President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (Doctrines of Salvation, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282).
More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, p.316).
President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).
President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 2, p.196).
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posted on
02/27/2012 11:22:26 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: stuartcr
I think FR makes up for any lack of Mormon attacks this election year.Oh HELL no!
Just wait until our MATERIAL gets into the MSM's hands!
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posted on
02/27/2012 11:24:02 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: JDW11235
The all out attack has been prevalent for some time.SShhhhush!
Do NOT alert them!
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posted on
02/27/2012 11:26:40 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: JDW11235
Its largely inconsequential, as the religious bigotry is more of a turn off to good people.When the 'good people' read the BIGOTRY found in #28; things may go in a different direction!
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posted on
02/27/2012 11:28:32 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: Wings-n-Wind
“Draw a line from Nashville — East thru Cookeville... Then on to Knoxville-— ...And back down thru Chattanooga.... To close the loop @ Nashville.... Welcome to the “Buckle of The Bible Belt”...”
We’re in “the buckle”, and love it. People here are very informed about Mormonism and Catholicism — and liberalism. I doubt if Romney will prevail in the area.
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posted on
02/27/2012 11:31:35 AM PST
by
MayflowerMadam
(Don't blame me; I voted for the American.)
To: xzins
“I hear an awful lot of folks attacking Santorums Catholicism, but I dont hear anyone attacking Mormonism.”
if you haven’t heard anyone attacking mormonism, just continue to read Free Republic, and checkout any thread discussing Mitt Romney. there are plenty of folks here claiming to be Christian who have plenty to say in judgment about mormon beliefs and practices versus their perspective on who is Christian and who is not.
Go Newt.
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posted on
02/27/2012 11:46:55 AM PST
by
IWONDR
To: Elsie
Actually most people have learned to ignore your cut and paste, Ted Turneresque posts. But honey, you just look for the truth, and one day you’ll find it. See ya.
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posted on
02/27/2012 11:58:18 AM PST
by
JDW11235
(http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
To: IWONDR
There is no judgment of any individuals, just of Mormonism as a whole. As Christians are instructed to do in the Bible its self, confront false teaching especially those that use the name of Christ.
There is no “perspective” on what system is Christian in this instance, the facts are readily available.
35
posted on
02/27/2012 12:00:12 PM PST
by
ejonesie22
(8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
To: JDW11235
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posted on
02/27/2012 12:10:35 PM PST
by
madmaximus
(Romney=Hitler Obama=Stalin. Either way, we're screwed.)
To: Elsie
Isn’t all of the media that people watch, really the mainstream?
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posted on
02/27/2012 12:18:49 PM PST
by
stuartcr
("In this election year of 12, how deep into their closets will we delve?")
To: ansel12
“As a Bishop and then a Stake President, Bishop Romney is expected to ascend higher in the Mormon church to at least the level of Cardinal, and possibly to the position of Prophet or Pope, as his uncle was in line to be when death claimed him.”
where have you heard this expectation that Romney is expected to ascend to the position of prophet? is this from a mormon source? if you look at the mormon heirarchy, Romney has a number of other folks that are more likely to become the next prophet of the mormon church than he is. the mormons call these folks apostles, and i don’t believe that Romney is an apostle. recheck your sources for clarification.
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posted on
02/27/2012 1:34:56 PM PST
by
IWONDR
To: SmithL
Poll: Romney's Mormon faith may not hurt him in TN
I think it's his liberal faith that's going to hurt him.
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posted on
02/27/2012 1:39:29 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: Elsie
“I wonder if the ATTACKERS are MORMONs themselves??”
i wonder if some of the attackers of Romney on Free Republic are ex-mormons, or have been hurt by mormons in some manner, or are Christians who believe that mormonism is not what they consider to be a truly Christian belief system?
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posted on
02/27/2012 1:44:16 PM PST
by
IWONDR
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