Posted on 05/07/2012 10:36:51 AM PDT by kevcol
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62% [of mormons] say that Americans are “uninformed” about the religion. Yet the reluctance of most Mormons to discuss their beliefs and customs with non-members only adds to secular suspicion that the church is a cult.
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Romney would also be assigned two “home teachers” — fellow Mormons who live in his vicinity and would visit with Romney once a month, probably in the White House, to counsel him on his faith and general emotional state
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Less than two hours after my visit — despite giving staffers only my first name and filling out no paperwork — I was startled to get a voicemail on my cellphone from someone identifying himself as a prophet, saying that he’d like to “start interceding for your life” and asking me to call an 800 number to join a prayer circle.
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says that she specifically asked to be moved to [Sen. Harry] Reid’s Maryland chapel, because she has a relative who’s gay and her former place of worship housed some older, bigoted congregants.
She’ll be worshipping with Brother Romney should he win. Even if he loses, however, author Feldman thinks that his nomination itself is a watershed moment.
“That so many Americans don’t know he’s a Mormon, and that his religion wasn’t a factor in this primary — as it was four years ago — that’s directional,” he says. “ It’s a historically significant moment, and it’s progress. We’re improving as a country.”
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A Mormon already controls the Senate.
I’ll take a Mormon over a Marxist any day.
Romney is a lying cheater.
His religion is irrelevant to his incompetence.
That said, Romney has no chance. Zero. Zed. Nada.
I disagree with LDS theology, I say without hestitation that it’s flat wrong.
Yet, the personal hands-on approach of counsel has commonalities both to cults AND to the orthodox/biblical Christian church. Read the biblical epistles and it’s inescapable that church fathers could get quite “nosey” into congregants’ affairs, if not a formal structure like this.
Is this like an advance version of sour grapes?
It strikes me as intellectually dishonest. Romney will be seen as a maven on the prevailing concern and worry of most Americans — the economy and jobs. It’s impossible for him not to. He doesn’t have to brag it up for it to be obvious. Obama never was a businessman. In the meantime Obama keeps shooting himself in the foot with his political advertising.
I disagree with it as well.
But those goofy kids with the ties and short sleeve shorts are not saying “Convert or die, infidel.”
Obama is WAY too cozy with the mooselimbs...and when they achieve significant numbers in the US, look out...
There’s “official” Mormonism with its clean if severe living ideals, then there is nod-and-wink Mormonism. Mitt is more characterized by the second.
A lying, socialist Mormon vs. a lying, Marxist Muslim gay illegal alien. Take your pick.
Beats a man; whose name rhymes with ‘Osama’ - ANY day.
A cult wants 100% commitment of resources. If you own a van - the cult owns a van. If you own a 50 cal machine gun - the cult owns a 50 cal machine gun.
A religion usually only wants 10%.
As I've pointed out earlier, that same COTFB church, at an earlier stage than most sources will give you, was around in upstate New York and Rhode Island in the early 1700s ~ and was known then, and now, as The Church of the First Born.
Joseph Smith (just coincidentally I am sure) provides a great deal of information concerning that body in the Doctrines & Covenants.
I've had any number of Mormons advise me that the Mormon use of the term, and these customs, has nothing to do with the older church, or with Swedenborg, but here's another one ~ they are documented as participating in what is known as serial polygamy. It has been typical for centuries for men and women to marry and divorce 4 or 5 others over their lifetimes, just like Bill Clinton's mom and dad, and they were both Church of the First Born members.
It would probably be good for the Mormons to start telling folks what all of these secret things mean ~ just for old times sake you know ~ save me an enormous amount of time digging more stuff up about the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church.
Amen. This choice this November is clear. I'll be voting "ABO", and if I have to, I'll crawl over glass to do it.
Of course; we know how 'we' feel about him; and so can guarantee; that 'ours' is not prejudice. . .save of ideology; and corrupt politicians.
what’s wrong with a Mormon? we already havae a Moron!
Perhaps orthodox/biblical Christianity puts more stress on the voluntary than Mormons do. However the former is no stranger to calls for “total commitment.”
what’s wrong with a Mormon? we already havae a Moron!
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