Posted on 06/01/2011 10:06:48 AM PDT by Colofornian
Bill Keller infamously announced in 2007, "If you vote for Mitt Romney, you are voting for Satan!"
While expressing less vitriol in his delivery, evangelical author Warren Cole Smith said something similar in his recent article, "A Vote for Romney Is a Vote for the LDS Church."
Smith wrote, "I believe a candidate who either by intent or effect promotes a false and dangerous religion is unfit to serve. A Romney presidency would have the effect of actively promoting a false religion in the world. If you have any regard for the Gospel of Christ, you should care. A false religion should not prosper with the support of Christians. The salvation of souls is at stake."
Mormon scholar and author Joanna Brooks spoke with Smith about his views regarding Mormonism. In the interview posted on religiondispatches.org, Brooks said: "I can understand from an evangelical perspective why you view our religion as 'false.' But why do you think we are 'dangerous?'"
Smith replied, "Let me ask you: is anything that is false not dangerous? Anything false is dangerous. Falsehood leads to danger."
Brooks countered by asking if other faiths he considered theologically "false" like Judaism and Catholicism are also dangerous. Smith said that those faiths are both different from Mormonism.
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If you are anti-democrat, why would you happily vote for Romney? Romney’s policies fit perfectly with the democrat platform. There is nothing about him that is Republican or Conservative.
Are you going to be mistreating FReepers who refuse to vote for your RINO hero, Mitty this time like you did in 2008 ???
Is this what all this grumpiness is about ???
Nobody will play with you ???
Nobody here can be intimidated into voting for Mitty just to prove to you personally they are not “bigots” ???
The Obama vote for Romney ???
Not this easy for you this time ???
The FReepers have found back bones ?>??
Oh dear too bad...
Source for one example of hatred towards mormons.
We knew you were warped from the 1st time we met you.
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As in “”we” knew you were not intendING to vote for our wonderful fluffy Mitty and so we lied about you and said nasty things about you”
Yes you did kid...
Adults dont act that way...
Remember I know you real well also
You might want to pull your horns in
Kid you are under the illusion you are important to me enough for me to “hate” you
I dont hate anyone kid...
as for you...
Im indifferent to you kid
You are not that important
I feel sorry for your dumb butt
Nothing you can say among those nasty comments can hurt me
Im accepted in the Beloved and that is something you cant touch with your destructive hands
Go and figure out what that means
Poor lost kid
Seriously, zone what examples of hate? T has not spewed hate, you on the other hand have spewed gobbly gook. Please include what you think is hate?
Pretty big statement. IF you know that to be true - then your trying to find it is nonsense- since you know all.
“Or, pray tell, Tory, did you have something else in mind aside from polygamy? (Like maybe the age of the “brides” or something)”
Good point actually, about the age of the brides, considering that the leader of the FLDS was brought up on charges relating to this. Do you feel it is fair for the mainstream LDS, by association, to be tainted by this?
I know nothing...except what the Bible tells me.
I see. So we are all to censor ourselves on a thread in the religion forum because you "don't bother to look at what "category" you are posting in, is that correct?
You have personally attacked TN with YOUR "nastiness" which is not allowed on the Religion Forum.
I have one comment to reply to your several comments on this thread...if you are so disturbed by what you choose to see as "hate", I'll make a deal with you...when the 52,000 missionaries for the mormon church stop going out worldwide every day and dishing out hate to Christians by claiming mormonism is the only way to salvation, when the mormon church stops spending millions per year on TV and radio ads and flooding the internet with lies about the REAL Jesus Christ, you and your fellow defenders of mormonism (and Romney) on this thread can righteously whine about our posts. Otherwise, find another FR forum to vent your spleen on. You aren't going to shut us down.
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