Posted on 01/28/2012 9:20:46 AM PST by pinochet
Almost all Christian denominations can be traced to 3 main traditions - the Catholic, the Protestant, and the Eastern Orthodox traditions. All three traditions are based on the Bible. Mormonism is a religion that has a heritage that is very different from traditional Christianity, and is based on the Book of Mormon.
The theological differences that separate a Baptist from a Catholic, are not the same as those which separate a Baptist from a Mormon, or a Catholic from a Mormon. In a dispute between a Baptist and a Catholic, they will argue over whether Church tradition prevails over scripture on some issues, and on whether salvation is by faith alone, or a combination of faith and works. The main argument will focus on how they interpret the Bibilical verse, James 2:17, which notes "Faith without works is dead".
But Mormonism doctrines involve stuff that is completely incomprehensible to Christians. It is not just the fact that Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith was a polygamist, like the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. I will grant you that Joseph Smith was not as violent as Muhammad. But Mormons have this crazy doctrine that Jesus visited America, and that some Native Americans are the lost tribes of Israel.
They also have secret ceremonies in Mormon temples, in which they perform wierd rituals and ceremonies, such as one creepy ritual called "naked touching". Non-mormons are never allowed to attend those secret Mormon ceremonies, and only a minority of Mormons - those in good standing with the church, are allowed to witness the strange ceremonies. One is also required to wear special undergarments as part of the faith. Here is a description on "naked touching" by ex-Mormons: http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon366.htm
Many of us have met individual Mormons, and admired them and their families. They are a model religious minority like Hindus from India. Hindu immigrants in America are hard working, law-abiding, and their children do well in school. But we cannot get over the fact that Hinduism is a really strange religion with multiple gods and goddesses, and strange cultural practises such as viewing cows as holy animals. Some Hindu gods like Shiva, Hanuman, Ganesha, and Kali, are really weird creatures. I have always viewed Mormons as a nice pro-family people, but with a religion as strange as Hinduism.
Hinduism is an ancient religion which is founded upon monotheism. Mormonism is made up by a scam artist, not monotheistic, and is more like Scientology actually. THere are so many differences between Hinduism and Mormonism I could write for hours.
I’m far more concerned about Socialism than I am about Mormonism.
All false religions are strange.
I despise Romney and will vote for him under no circumstances; however, his Mormanism has nothing to do with it.
Having said that, if the media, leftwingers, etc. try to make something of his Mormanism, then won’t it be logical to ask those making something of it why there seems to be no problem with Harry Reid’s Senate Majority leadership and the fact that he is Morman too?
If they want to trash Romney for his Mormanism, then Reid should get trashed too. Just say’n.
Bundling was practiced differently, sometimes with a board, sometimes without. Without the pernicious expectation of constant romantic infatuation, marriage was often arranged by the family, and one way for the family to get a prospective groom to agree to take a problem daughter off their hands was to give him an opportunity to ‘tickle the dragon’.
The sad stories of Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston reveal the vast divide between our marital expectations.
he did it bold faced in America of all places...
people knew he was a crook...
people knew he was a charlatan....
but throw in that little girl and many of them, and immoral men just ran with it...
its not like Smith existed in ancient times...
its not like his beginnings are muddy...we all know his story...
and yet, it was allowed to continue, in modern times...
like Ron Hubbard, anything can attract a following apparently...
Here’s where you go wrong...you expect these people to allow you to apply the logic they apply to us...to them.
It doesn’t work that way...and if you try it, it’s because you’re racist.
Got it?
“We could probably assess the real threat from Mormans to America”
There is a more important issue... the threat to the souls of people from mormonism.
we're not talking about whether Mormons are good people or not though...many of them are, and many are not...just like the rest of us...
but no matter what kind of tolerance one has, its hard to understand the very odd things that Mormonism supports....
What? Hinduism rocks. The Upanishads and Samhitas have some of the greatest observations about human existence ever written.
I’d never compare it to Mormonism. Not that I have a negative view of Mormonism....It’s just that you’re comparing an impulsive teen to a wise old man.
LOL too funny
Not a concern for government. Government should not be concerned with theology unless some religion advocates replaces the US constitution and laws with a religious set of laws as one loud and complaining religious group does. Of course, our government so far has worked really hard to ignore and pretend no such intentions exist.
Perhaps!
But I’d walk in safe, and sincere confidence with 1 million Mormons at my back, then one muslim at my side!
And here were are in 2012 with a Republican Presidential Candidate who wears Magic Underwear!
I’ve been exposed to Mormonism, Islamism, Hinduism and Catholicism, each, in very “personal” ways. I, emphatically, reject all of them. But I’ve lived too long to be an atheist. However, if it is your mission to proseletyze me, just walk-on-by my door.
MYTH ROMNEY IS A MORMON MELCHIDEZEK HIGH PRIEST
BISHOP MITT ROMNEY, HIGH PRIEST AND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
High Priest and Bishop
Bernard Francis Law for President of the United States? Why would one anyone be opposed? Archbishop Law presided over Boston’s Roman Catholic Churches, which had overlapped Mitt Romney’s rule over Mormon churches in the same area. Secularized America, now in a Fourth Great Awakening, is considering missionary- pastor-archpriest-bishop Romney as a serious candidate for Commander in Chief. Surely Christopher Hitchens would not be pleased.
Beginning in the mid 1980s, Romney served for nearly ten years as bishop over the Boston Mormon churches where he directed over a dozen congregations. Romney said that his experience as a pastor gave him practical experience working with the down and out.
According to the Mormon religion, the presidential candidate became an ordained priest of Aaron when he was a teenager. A Mormon priest is the authority and power of God Himself. The Aaronic Priesthood holds the key of ministering angels by teaching doctrines of the church – the Mormon church that is. Priests of Aaron are called “to administer the law of carnal commandments.” Mitt’s cousin, Marion Romney, wrote in his revised edition of the Doctrines and Covenants Commentary that the Mormon priesthood was no different than the relationship between Aaron and Moses in the Bible. Aaron was a spokesman “instead of God;” we assume that Mormon priest Mitt Romney considers himself one as well.
High Priest and Bishop ... and President of the USA?
The ministering of angels aspect of the Aaronic Priesthood is quite powerful according to Mormon authorities: “…the action of angels or messengers of God upon our minds, so that the heart can conceive things past, present, and to come, and revelations from the eternal world, is, among a majority of mankind, a great mystery…” Thus saith Mitt Romney’s cousin, Marion, who was a church theologian and LDS boss. Wouldn’t it be great to have a guy like this running the country? He could interpret the “mysteries” of world for the entire country through angelic beings.
Upon promotion to the high Melchizedek Priesthood (a title, which according to the Bible, belongs to Jesus Christ alone) Mitt Romney became governor of the kingdom of God on earth. Romney is a “…high priest and called to a presidency, high council, or bishop …” Joseph Smith claimed that the ordainment into this elite class of priests enrolls a man into “a Priesthood of the Son of God.” The Priests of Aaron are enabled to “see God, even God the Father.”
Mitt Romney’s elevation to the high Melchizedek priesthood comes with a responsibility “to obtain revelations of the mind and will of God. It is the privilege of the Melchizedek Priesthood to reprove, rebuke, and admonish, as well as to receive revelation.”
The Mormon Melchizedek priests are made presidents of their church; therefore why not make them President of the entire country? What could possibly go wrong?
***Nick Voss
“Not a concern for government
Just voters.
I suspect that if you were one of the Lord’s elect, you’d be in his camp by now. No proseletisation coming from me.
Just getting started
Hell yes this needs to be looked at.
If a filthy rich Catholic Cardinal was running for POTUS, the subject of his high position in the Church would come up.
Romney is not just a Mormon, he is high up the food chain in church hierarchy, comparable to a Cardinal.
MORMONISM IS A CON, founded by a con man, a CONVICTED con man.
JESUS was not in MISSOURI.
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