Yes. Either way, we're ripe for judgment...and not just for whom our citizenry elevates as "ideal" candidates.
Somebody said long ago: If God doesn't judge America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom & Gomorrah.
...a rudderless, unprincipled narcissist...
Let's remove Mormonism for just a second -- but keep one aspect of it as the "ultimate narcissist" worldview...the conviction & belief that you will one day grow from a "god in embryo" into a full-grown god of your own world.
Take ANY candidate.
Let's say Newt. (Just using Newt as a hypothetical here)
I think Newt has been a Lutheran; he's Catholic now. May have been something else as well as some point. Well, what if he re-emerged tomorrow & announced that his newest belief would be that he will eventually become a god & rule over his own world?
Do you think, for a moment, that a single belief like that would get a pass by GOP voters? By the MSM? By the Dems?
And even after it's covered as breaking news, do you think that would "stop" after the breaking news cycle ends? Do you think that little "tidbit" or "factoid" about our hypothetical Newt would evaporate from the voters' minds?
I don't think it would. Yet why don't candidate-evaluators hold Mitt to the same eval process?
Why does Mitt get a pass? Just 'cause he wears a certain religious label? And just because multi-culturalism & post-modernism teaches that supposedly all beliefs of systemized religions are equal & deserve "equal" respect?
And that's just one whacky belief among THOUSANDS by Mormons! What if our hypothetical Newt belonged to an openly racist org til age 31, baptized dead Jews in his spare time, wore magic underwear, and claimed ALL of his wives would be his simultaneously in the afterlife???
Narcissism -- in this case best evidenced by the belief that you're on your way to godhood -- not only gets a "pass" when it comes to Romney but a "thumbs up" from the GOP establishment & a high chunk of GOP voters.
Our nation is in deep, deep, deep trouble.
Discernment is long gone.
“Why does Mitt get a pass?”
To help get him the nomination, then all hell will brake loose when the media and the left will go wild. The left is licking its chops waiting to pounce. It is too bad this can’t get traction now before it’s too late
Somebody said long ago: If God doesn't judge America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom & Gomorrah.
I worked for a very wealthy guy who sent a lot of his money offshore, and planned to move there with his young family. If economics weren’t an issue for me, I’d do the same. We can no longer lay claim to the title “greatest nation on earth.” Morally, culturally, and now financially and politically, we’re just another one. But every true Christian knows this planet is dying, and it’s all temporary. America was one unique, bright shining moment in the history of mankind. And that moment seems to be coming to an end.