Posted on 10/07/2012 10:09:24 AM PDT by barmag25
Chattanooga-area evangelical church pastors may believe the Mormon faith is a cult and may not consider Gov. Mitt Romney a Christian, but they said that won't stop them from considering a vote for him in next month's presidential election.
More than eight in 10 voters in a Pew Forum poll this summer said they were comfortable with the Republican nominee's faith or it didn't matter to them. Nineteen percent said they were uncomfortable with his faith.
"We are electing a president, not a pastor," said Tim Shoap, co-pastor of Signal Mountain Bible Church. "I want the best and most effective leader we can get, [one] who will represent the interests of the people and the country in keeping with the original intent of the Constitution. For me, that makes the Mormon issue largely irrelevant."
While members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consider themselves Christians, several local evangelical pastors do not.
"Mormonism is a cult," said Jeremy Roberts, pastor of Highland Park Baptist Church. "Mormons are polytheistic universalists who deny that Jesus is the eternal son of God."
However, he said he would base his vote on "policy, leadership skills and who I perceive will most likely lead the country in the direction I believe is best."
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They don’t beleive that either, not the way the Bible teaches it anyway.
Actually they do deny Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God.
I agree, now show me one post where I have said directly or implied my attempt to control anyone's beliefs.
Wow, now Chris who wants to be the denier of another’s beliefs?
You’ve apparently mistaken me for someone who wished to have a conversation with you.
I do not.
I don’t deny his beliefs, I just don’t want to talk to him, or you.
Your posts on this thread show you to be a typical obamaroid liar, spending your posts implying folks will risk going to 'hell' if they vote for Romney in order to remove the little commie bastard boy from the White House power chair.
You've been at FR since April of this year, and your obvious mission is to spread dissonance and discord, accusing and smarming your way from Romney thread to Romney thread, working to suppress a Romney vote in order to get your little homo demigod re-elected. (See how easy it is to smarm? You folks really should learn some stealth restraint, so you won't out yourselves so easily, obamaroid.)
Really? Yet you continue to respond.
You ask questions, they are answered, you yell shut the hell up.......ok. (eye roll)
So it has come to this MHG, you are now a mind reader.
Are you using a peep stone, maybe a crystal ball or how about a diving rod?
It has been interesting and sad to see your transformation over these months into what you have become.
RaisingCain (lefty) said he respected the muslims that want to behead us because they’re honest about it. I responded to that post and you felt the need to defend RC with some nonsense. You now say you will never respect Islam yet that was the post you were defending.
Show me a defense you made the charge - prove it.
I haven’t asked you or him any questions at all.
It was you and Cain who asked me questions.
Incidentally, you also continue to respond.
Incidentally, try rewriting your tag line. Your ignorance makes pro life look stupid with your ignorant line that reflects your abject lack of knowledge about the pro abortion crowd ... they do not deny that what is alive in the womb is alive, they reject that that life is yet a human being. You might be a pretender if ...
Of, course it is not me who has said “shut the hell up”.
RaisingCain “The Muslims I have spoken with, at least over the internet, have threatened to behead me during the End Times. I don’t know about you, but I can respect that honesty.”
Me responding to RC “You respect these filthy bastards that have killed our military men and women, killed thousands of our fellow Americans at the WTC, bombed the USS Cole, killed our Navy Seals and our Ambassador because they were honest about it? We should respect them? I bet you thought Hitler and deserved our respect as well.
You made your intentions clear when you signed up here that it would be better to have Obama as President.
You bastard trolls will stop at nothing to promote your commie agenda. I guess that’s why you’re liberals. Your desperation is very telling. I hope your next zot is permanent, OBot.
Your response to me:
Yea!!!!
You win the prize this week......people who do not support Romney are
(I mean you hit them all)
murders
(as through apparent complicity IE respect was mentioned)
hitler lovers
(because he stated his intentions IE respect was mentioned)
bastard troll
(I think that’s a new one)
commie agenda
(Very sure that’s new)
must be zotted
(because I don’t like what you said)
Nice job.
(Really what’s interesting is Romney supporters get so very agitated when Romney’s record is stated. Wonder why that is?)
“Your posts on this thread show you to be a typical obamaroid liar, spending your posts implying folks will risk going to ‘hell’ if they vote for Romney in order to remove the little commie bastard boy from the White House power chair”
I’ve never made any claim that people voting for Mitt Romney are going to hell. Do I think people are wrong? Yup. Do I think people are deluding themselves even when they pimp Christianity to defend Mormonism? Yup. Do I think they are praising Romney as a good man and utterly ignoring his actual history? Yup. But do I believe that God is going to cast them into hell? No, I’ve never said that.
All you MittBots have are constant accusations about things I allegedly believe, but you have never once acknowledged anything I have ever said. Case and point, calling me an Obama supporter.
If anyone is judgmental around here, it’s you guys who judge anyone who does not obey like a mindless lemming. This is why I say that Republicans are the new Democrats, and Democrats are the new commies. Welcome to Europe, folks!
No, I said that to RaisingCain, but not to you.
I told you that I don’t want to talk to you, but I wasn’t as forceful about it, because quite frankly he angers me more than you do.
scvw, you need not worry yourself or grieve of what others believe religiously. Especially in the case of Mitt Romney. He’s fine. His beliefs have served him well. Worry about your own life and your own spirit. We all have to find our own way.
Yea, you are correct twice I have said I would stop responding to you (thanks for keeping track), however this last rant was so over the top that I was tempted, and yielded.
However, I would like to thank you for being agitated by my tag line, and implying for all to infer that I am really not pro-life.......the charge demonstrates how fall you have fallen.
You MHG have devolved so low as to be indistinguishable from pond scum, how so very sad that your support of Romney has changed you into the very thing you used to fight against.
Enjoy your life, going along attacking and disparaging the things you used to defend and honor......
“We should respect them?”
I never said I respected them. I was making a joke, saying I can respect their HONESTY, compared to the passive-aggressive hostility of the average Temple Worthy Mormon I have encountered. You, sir, are a liar.
This is what you said assclown.
“The Muslims I have spoken with, at least over the internet, have threatened to behead me during the End Times. I don’t know about you, but I can respect that honesty.”
Who’s the liar?
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