Moo.
Posted on 10/17/2012 4:33:29 AM PDT by Colofornian
The daughter of a Latter Day Saints bishop and author of a book on Mitt Romney’s Mormonism says that she has concerns about a Romney presidency.
Tricia Erickson, who is now a professing Christian after being involved in the LDS establishment for 21 years, stated in an article this week entitled The Obamney Twins that while she cannot support Barack Obama, she is unable to vote for Mitt Romney either.
“To me, as a conservative, a Republican and a Christian, I cannot justify a vote for either one of the Obamney baby-killing, annihilators of the family, government healthcare mandated to take over our economy socialist evil twins – and be right with our Creator,” she wrote.
Erickson pointed out that neither seek to ban abortion, and both have shown support for homosexuality.
“Republicans say that they have to vote for Romney because we are losing our country to socialism and after another four years of Obama, there will be nothing left of America. I can’t say that I disagree,” she said. “However, what is never talked about is that Romney has his own goals for the Mormon Church [and] The Mormon Plan for America, and while he is cunning and a good debater, he lacks the judgment to discern that he will not become a ‘god’ in his next life and receive his own planet.”
Erickson has been making the rounds on various talk shows and has been featured in news publications for at least the past year, discussing her concerns with Mormonism and a potential Romney presidency.
“While he attempts to portray Mormonism as just another Christian religion, Mitt Romney counts on his skills to shift our attention away from what he truly believes,” she wrote in her book Can Mitt Romney Serve Two Masters? The Mormon Church Versus the Office of the Presidency of the United States of America.
“It’s like our eyes are glazed over when it comes to the religion of Mitt Romney,” Erickson told talk show host Thomas Hartmann in further discussing the matter. “If you just knew what Mitt Romney believed, you would run far away from this candidate.”
Erickson states that she grew up in a devout Mormon household, and was even married in the LDS temple according to mandated rituals. However, she laments many things that she observed and was subjected to.
“It was horrific,” she told WND. “There I was standing naked [at my wedding]. They brought this bowl of water and started washing my body down, and whispering prayers over my body. They stopped over the right and left breast, the navel and knees and prayed specific prayers.”
Erickson stated that because Mitt Romney is a dedicated Mormon, he espouses beliefs that are very concerning, including that Jesus was not born of a virgin, that Jesus and Satan are spirit brothers, and that Romney will one day become one of many deities.
“Mitt Romney truly, unequivocally believes that when he dies, he is going to become a god in Heaven,” she said. “He is going be given his own kingdom/planet. He will be able to call his wife Ann by the secret name that is only given to him in the Mormon secret ceremonies … When he calls her on to his planet, they will have relations to populate the planet with spirit children, as they believe our God has a wife on His planet, and He did the same, and they believe that we are our God’s spirit children from our god mother and god father.”
“So, all of us here on earth, we existed in a pre-existence with God as a spirit baby, then we came down and inhabited these little babies’ bodies that are here on the earth,” Erickson continued, explaining LDS beliefs. “[This was done] so that we could go through our process to venture into godhood.”
She said that there has been a longstanding agenda in the LDS establishment to place Mormons into governmental offices.
“[The LDS establishment has] been trying since the beginning to get someone in the presidency, because they believe they have to establish their authority so when Jesus comes to earth, the Mormon Church will take control of the government and the Mormons will be the government of God on earth,” Erickson explained.
“They believe that when Jesus comes back to earth in the millennium, that He’s going to come to Jackson County, Missouri, which that’s where they believe the Garden of Eden is,” she added.
Former Mormons Dennis and Rauni Higley of H.I.S. Ministries International in Salt Lake City, Utah concur that these indeed are the beliefs of the LDS establishment. They provided Christian News Network with written outlines of their concerns surrounding what is called the “White Horse Prophesy.”
“From its very beginning, the Mormon plan for America has been to have a Mormon president lead this nation and ultimately the world,” they stated. “The so-called ‘White Horse Prophecy’ of Joseph Smith has been referred to often as a destiny of the Mormon priesthood in saving the United States. This ‘prophecy’ predicts that U.S. government will one day hang as if by a single thread and Mormon elders will step in and save it.”
Erickson said that in Mormon ceremonies, participants must swear to keep secret what goes on behind closed doors. She advised that in rituals that she was involved with, she observed people being forced to make gestures signifying their death if they revealed what takes place.
“They actually had us [symbolically] slashing our guts open and our guts falling to the ground if we told people of the secret dogma of the ceremonies,” she stated.
When asked how Erickson knows that Romney espouses these same beliefs, she replied that Romney has long had high ranking in the LDS establishment, holding office as bishop like her father, and working as a Mormon missionary in France for a time.
“You cannot get more Mormon than Mitt Romney,” she stated. “And I have been through the same temple ceremonies … to follow the church first before anything else.”
“To my way of thinking the idiosyncrasies of Mormon belief and practice are not the issue; Catholic belief in transubstantiation and Protestant belief in the resurrection [of Jesus] can be made to look silly, too,” Romney told CNN last year after being informed of Erickson’s writings and speeches against him.
Because of these concerns, in Erickson’s article this week, she noted that many will vote third party this year or skip the presidential race on the ballot.
“Some have said that they will simply not vote for either establishment candidate, [but] instead, in protest, will write-in another name or candidate if they will vote at all,” she wrote. “I, and approximately 90 million Americans, agree with Charles Spurgeon who says, ‘Of two evils, choose neither.’”
Then it should be easily proven; not just claimed.
Elsie, if you defeat Romney, who is it that will be elected lead this nation?
Ok... ?
HMmmm...
Turn it around:
colorcountry, if you ELECT Romney, who is it that will be leading this nation?
Clearly, you don’t even know the meaning of the term “false dichotomy”.
Nevertheless, you stand in need of prayer, and I will pray for you.
Lord GOD, Creator of all that is, bless Elsie with wisdom and discernment. Turn her heart and her mind from the falsehoods that Satan has placed on her lips. ALmighty GOD, let the scales fall from her eyes and let her see clearly that she is doing the bidding of Satan in her misguided labors to aid the re-election of Barack Obama.
In the name of Jesus Christ, of Nazareth, our Lord and Savior, AMEN
Exactly. My salvation came about by God sending his only begotten son, Jesus Christ to die on the cross for me. I am saved by my belief in this fact. It has nothing to do with who is president.
Romney will lead if he is elected. I prefer him to Obama.
If you have two pagans who exactly match these two candidates, Romney and Obama, and one of which, will run the imaginary country of FreeRepublictopia, how would you choose?
I already said you may withhold your vote if you wish. But I will do nothing to ensure an Obama win. In my opinion that is evil. I will fight Mormonism with every ounce of strength I have, but Romney’s values are more in line with mine, and with Christianity than Obama’s .... and so I will also do nothing in my power to help Obama win. If that means I will remain largely silent for three more weeks, then I will hold my tongue until then.
By electing the most liberal candidate that the Republican Party has ever run? How is an unmistakable message about leftism being sent by replacing one big-government-solutions guy with another? Mitt Romney will put his stamp on the Republican Party by moving it decidedly leftward.
I’d start with arrogant, frankly.
Yes!
If you paid attention you knew:
He was NEVER close to anyone who was Pro-American,
Never won political office without clearing the path via scandal,
Had no school or written records,
All community organizing was socialist based,
Was only a lecturer never a professor,
Had the most liberal record in the Senate, even though he frequently voted “present”,
Had the worst pro-abortion record possible, to include voting against the “born-alive” act.
The anwer is, if you cared, you learned!
So you don’t deny you’re a gun-grabber and are opposed to the first amendment. That’s what you outward actions demonstrate. remember, if Romney is held to account for 19th and early 20th century theological thoughts of his faith community and distant relatives, you are undeniably in league with Douglas Wilder who Virgil Goode helped get elected. That’s who you have chosen to support so, following your logic, you are bound to that belief forever.
Sorry the Constitution is the law of the land.. NOT THE BIBLE..
Moo.
In the posts on this thread, you have referred to people as tools of Satan for having a different political position, proudly explained to God why your voting position is correct, publicly proclaimed people in need of prayer, and then publicly prayed that those who disagree lack wisdom and discernment. You're calling people out for self-righteousness? Physician, heal thyself.
While others don’t care if ROMNEY is elected to run this country—their ideas of FREEDOM and ECONOMY are so much MORE important than men’s souls.
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I voted for prez for the first time in 1976, and have voted every 4 years for the President of the United States. You do see that job title, right? The president of the US is the head of the executive branch of our government.
I think you should lobby for a new Cabinet position given your notion that the US government should be in the business of concern about our immortal souls. And you could write into the bylaws of the position that only true Bible believing Christians could occupy the role. Since it would be an appointed position, we can safely avoid the religious test for qualifications.
We all have baggage.
As an aside, take a look at my FR Homepage. I put all that stuff up in mid-2008.
I’ll pray for you as well.
Joseph Smith viewed capturing the presidency as part of the mission of the church.
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That seals the deal for me. I am not voting for Joseph Smith for prez in 2012.
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