[PapaBear3625]

Really, I don't care about Romney's religious beliefs. What I care about is what will happen to the economy, and to our Constitutional liberties.

As long as Romney gets the economy on track to recovery, puts a lid on the deficit, and reins in government bureaucrats, he can believe he's the Tooth Fairy and wear a pink tutu and I'll clap politely at his dance recital.

[Elsie]

What I care about is what will happen to the economy, and to our Constitutional liberties.

Nothing wrong with this at all; but it leaves the impression that you do not care for eternal matters.

[Elsie]

What I care about is what will happen to the economy, and to our Constitutional liberties.

those are nice things to enjoy...

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• James the Great, the elder brother of John the Apostle, was beheaded in A.D. 44.
• Philip, who served in Upper Asia was scourged in Phrygia, thrown into prison and later crucified (A.D. 54).
• Matthew the tax collector served the Lord in Parthia and Ethiopia where he was slain with a halberd (a shafted weapon with an axe-like cutting blade and a speared end) in the city of Nadabah, A.D. 60.
• James the Less, the brother of the Lord, served the church in Jerusalem and wrote the book of James. He suffered martyrdom at the age of ninety-four by being beaten and stoned by the Jews.
• Matthias, the man who was chosen to replace Judas as an apostle, was stoned at Jerusalem and then beheaded.
• Andrew, the brother of Peter, preached the gospel to many Asiatic nations and was crucified on a cross at Edessa. The ends of his cross were fixed transversely in the ground, thus the derivation of the term, St. Andrew's cross.
• Mark was converted to Christianity by Peter and served as amanuensis (he wrote for Peter). He was dragged to pieces by the people of Alexandria.
• Peter, the apostle, was sought by Nero to be put to death. Jerome wrote that Peter was crucified with his head down and his feet up, because he thought himself unworthy to be crucified in the same form and manner as the Lord.
• Paul was really persecuted several times. He was scourged, stoned, and finally, Nero had him beheaded by a sword.
• Jude, the brother of James, commonly called Thaddeus, was crucified at Edessa in A.D. 72.
• Bartholomew preached in several countries and translated the Gospel of Matthew into the language of India. He was cruelly beaten and then crucified by in patient idolaters.
• Thomas, doubting Thomas, preached the Gospel in Parthia and India. He excited the rage of the pagan priests and was martyred by being thrust through with a spear.
• Luke the author of Luke and Acts travelled with Paul through various countries and was suppose to have been hanged on and olive tree by the idolatrous priests of Greece.
• Simon the Zealot preached the Gospel in Mauritania, Africa, and even Britain where he was crucified in A.D. 74.

[Elsie]

What I care about is what will happen to the economy, and to our Constitutional liberties.

Hebrews 11:35-40

There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. 36 Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were put to death by stoning;[e] they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38 the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.

39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, 40 since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.