Posted on 09/02/2012 7:39:20 PM PDT by aposiopetic
BOSTON — The head of the prominent Marriott hotel chain and fellow Mormon J.W. Marriott thanked Mitt Romney today during a Mormon church service for bringing “positive attention” to the religion, which is often considered to be shrouded in mystery.
“There has never been as much positive attention to the church, thanks to the wonderful campaign of Mitt Romney and his family,” Marriott said during a service at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wolfeboro, N.H., the lakeside town where the Romney family has a home.
Marriott’s remarks come after a noticeable shift in the campaign to highlight Romney’s faith, a subject that has been rarely spoken about publicly by the candidate and his wife until last week, when both mentioned Mormonism in their speeches at the Republican National Convention. Additionally, several speakers arranged by the campaign to appear at the RNC highlighted the candidate’s strong ties to his faith.
Romney and Ann Romney, who sat six rows back in the church this morning, showed little reaction to Marriott’s testimony, according to a small group of reporters who accompanied the couple inside.
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mormonism is to Christianity as sitting on the kitchen counter and calling yourself a toaster - neither are true.
They believe Jesus is the Son of God and are therefor totally saved but “legalistic “ beyond belief!!Not necessary. All Are saved by belief- John 3:16
The question is whether they even identify the actual Jesus Christ any more. You can meet the actual Jesus Christ, badly misunderstand Him, and still be saved because He is who He is. But if you call something else Jesus Christ, you are out of luck.
No they do not.
mormonsim teaches you must work for salvation, there is no Grace.
The mormonism jesus is not eternal or sufficient.
The mormonism god is one of many, and was once a man.
mormonism is not in any sense of the Word Christianity.
mormonism is not legalistic it is a made up gobbly gook from a con man who wanted to bed young girls and other men’s wives.
No. It is a separate branch from Christianity. Joe Smith made up his own thing and rejected some basic Christian beliefs.
(If your premise is correct, yes. I didn’t do a search on hotel porn before posting, admittedly.)
Interesting. Describe for me the “actual Jesus Christ” But you agree that Mormons and Catholics are as saved as you are — right?
You Mam are a bigot. Mormons are wonderful saved folks.You are a sinner.Right?
I posted the article because I saw it on Yahoo or Google in a category related to the election rather than religion. I am not LDS yet have never said a negative word about LDS here (or, I hope, elsewhere), so I saw this as a political, rather than a religious, topic. I apologize if I erred in the process.
mormonism does not Save, Christ does.
mormonism does not Save, Christ does.
As you posted it in News, FReepers may not feel free to comment because the purpose behind the article appears to be religious and not political...
Don’t lump Roman Catholics and Mormons in the same handful and expect a sensible answer to such a question.
When one looks at any religion other than their own, it usually looks weird. That is because during your formative years before adulthood, you are exposed almost without an exception only to the rituals of your own religion.
When I arrived in US at a young age (barely out of teens) I knew of only of one religion, being born in a Hindu family. Most people I met here were Christians and I thought they were weird.
But then as I matured, I learned to find positive qualities in individuals and Christians were no longer weird to me. I even married a Christian woman.
I have met a few Mormons during my 40 year career in US and I can’t think of any one I disliked personally. So I have to conclude their religion has not turned them into weirdo’s like strapping bombs and blowing up civilian bystanders as some other religions.
At a minimum, the “actual Jesus Christ” lives up to every single thing documented about Him in a Bible that has more historical witnesses to its text than any other book. You can hypothesize a being that, instead of this, lives up to the Mormon description. But if you call to it, don’t complain if the Jesus Christ documented in the bible doesn’t answer.
I will add one more positive for the Church of LDS today. I’ve been trying (with some degree of failure) to research my Dad’s side of the family. Virtually all of the genealogy sites charge or at least require registration. The Mormons’ site is absolutely free. Sometimes, all you need is a name & thanks to them, I found that name which took me all the way back to Ireland. They’re not money-grubbers, for sure.
Their salvation is between them & God. We need to keep them in our prayers imho.
Mr. Marriott is not a leader in the Church. He is a member. Each month, on the 1st Sunday of the month, all of the Church congregations have what is called a fast and terstimony meeting. For the prior 24 hours members are encouraged to fast and then donate what they save from the two meals they miss to the church for the express purpose of helping the needy.
Then, the meeting is open to the congregation for anyone who so desires to come forward and testify about Jesus Christ, the Scriptures, the founding of the church, spiritual experiences they may have had, etc.
That was the type of meeting being help and apparently Mr. Mariott took the occassion to stand and thank Mitt Romney.
Nothing unusual about that, that sort of things happens in thousands of congregations each 1st Sunday of the month...but rarely is it reported in the press.
Because of Romney being under the microscope now, I doubt much will transpire in public with him that is not reported on in one way or another. Detractors will try and make something out of it...some conspiracy I suppose or such...but there is nothing unusual or conspiratorial about it.
Fair enough. I don’t know the motives of the author. I just was naively thinking of the election itself, since we find ourselves in the middle of the party conventions. But if it is religious and I should have posted it differently, I apologize.
You have had the good fortune never to have met a Harry Reid Mormon, who although not planning any suicide bombing would still drive you crazy with his social ideas.
It’s a worldly organization with all the faults that worldly organizations are prone to. They mostly are nice, like Moose (as in BPOM, not Mohammed) and Masons are generally nice. Nobody should be surprised.
Mormonism looks a lot like someone took a pretty much vanilla evangelical creed, changed its doctrines around a bit for variety, then stuck a science fiction saga right in the middle complete with stars and planets that can be visited. Joseph Smith could have been a very good early science fiction writer had he so purposed his pen. This is what makes it weird.
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