Posted on 07/09/2011 6:52:15 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
Polls show there's an anti-Mormon bias among voters - especially Democrats, more than a quarter of whom say they wouldn't vote for a Mormon. But this video of a Memphis Fox affiliate ridiculing Mitt Romney about his religion is a real wake-up call [video]. The whole news segment appears to be about Mormonism and the 2012 election, but skip ahead to the 3:20 mark for the worst of it [video].
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The Lord hearing something that offends Him is one thing — actually cracking wise about the sham of a mockery created by Joey Smith, 1820’s answer to L.Ron Hubbard, will be of utterly no consequence whatsoever. The “church” of younger day scientology is one of the sickest jokes ever unleashed on the gullible.
A mush, like McCain and (to a lesser extent) Bush. And so what. If the grass roots gets its way, Romney will not be the candidate in 2012. He’s as inspiring as a dish rag. Even Bachmann with her troubling ties to Jimmy Carter policy is well beyond his league.
As Christians we ARE called to judge (want verses?) Saying Romney’s religion is between him and God, implies you don’t believe in Evangelism which is a tenet of the Christian faith.
How will they know the truth if we do not tell them? I had many people pray for me when I was LDS, but God used the ones who told me Mormonism was a cult, the ones who made me mad, the ones who debated and argued religion and the Bible with me, the ones who told me I was going to HELL if I stayed Mormon(including my lifelong friend and now husband) to open my eyes.
It is completely UNCHRISTIAN to adopt a ‘live and let live’ attitude.
Or do you not care that Mormonism is sending people to Hell?
Romney DOES believe what Els posted. It is the CORE of Mormon foundation.
And no one uses the “Dark Ages” anymore. sheesh.
I make it no secret that I disagree with the theology of LDS. It sounds very much like something you would get if you took a plain vanilla mainstream evangelical church then stuck some Asimov sci-fi fantasy in the middle of it and the church then without blinking embraced the whole as holy writ. That’s not all the oddness, but to me it’s the most striking.
Trouble is, the MSM seems to dislike all religion equally (except humanistic faiths which disdain the supernatural). Whether it’s a planet close to God, or Moses on a mountain cloaked in smoke, the answer the MSM has is always, always nyet.
How dare you denigrate a Grand Master of Science Fiction by implying that he could have written the phantasmagoric entrancements of Joseph Smith.
The LDS story begins with the claim that a Pre-Columbian American culture was actually the lost Tribe of Israel, visited by Jesus and given the Book of Mormon on Golden Tablets that remained buried for millennia in upper New York State, only to be found after an Archangel, never mentioned in the Bible, named Moroni appeared to Joseph Smith to reveal the hiding place.
It is a shame that the Golden Tablets were promptly lost only after Smith had enough time to memorize them and dictate the contents to his disciples. Luckily, his followers were able to make notarized statements that they had seen the tablets before they were lost again.
In actuality it is clear you should have attributed the sci-fi fantasy to L. Ron Hubbard.
Given his “all things to all people” style when he was in office, he can’t take being a Mormon all that seriously anyway other probably thinking he well deserves to be a god one day.
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Actually, the ‘all things to all people’ and changing the message and even lying are all part of what the LDS teach in their missionary training center (and Mitt served a mission). Been there done that and being told I had to lie, omit, twist or obfuscate LDS doctrine to get converts is why I decided I could not serve a Mormon mission.
And, oh yeah, he not only thinks he is destined for godhood, he thinks he is the fulfillment of a prophecy by Joe Smith.
If they think they are and vote with Christians because of it, then their problem is between them and Christ. If they think conservatives are more anti-Mormon than liberals we lose votes, when we lose votes, the mass murder and the fascist state both roll along unimpeded.
Luckily, his followers were able to make notarized statements that they had seen the tablets before they were lost again.
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Actually, they only claimed to see them with their ‘spiritual’ eyes, and a few hefted a box, covered with a sheet that Smith claimed to contain the plates.
They never actually saw anything.
You expect Christians to become silent to lost souls because they may lose a few percentage points of a tiny voting block, or do you think that republican voting Mormons will start voting for everything they oppose because they continue to be confronted by Christianity as they have been since they started their cult 180 years ago?
I’m sure Asimov is far less boring. But he tried to be in advance of his time. Coming up with a realistic scenario of extraterrestrial planetary inhabitation in the early 1800s is no mean trick. Of course if God puts you there then you don’t need to bother with space rockets.
Hubbard came around too late to explain the LDS.
If they think they are and vote with Christians because of it, then their problem is between them and Christ.
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And it is the job of Christians to tell them the truth. They believe they are Christians, but they Christ they claim is NOTHING like the Christ of the Bible.
And being Conservative doesn’t make one a Christians. Also, I know many liberal, libertarian, and moderate Mormons.
Mormons will vote for Mormons above all, given a choice. If there is no mormon to vote for, then religion (Christian or otherwise) doesn’t matter because all non-mormons are evil ‘apostates’ of the Church of the Devil.
Romney will easily carry Utah, and parts of ID, WY, AZ, and NV. I am an ‘antiMormon’ not because I’m conservative, but because I used to be Mormon.
Liberals do not define themselves -- or others -- by "the content of their character".
Liberals define themselves -- and others -- by their politics.
Furthering the Cause of Christ is much more important to me than a few votes.
I am a Christian first, a conservative second. My allegiance is to Christ not the GOP.
Unbelievable, isn’t it?
Actually, no. I expect the majority of those who call themselves Christian to do the same thing they've done for the past sixty years. Talk about their concern for souls and the purity of their witness while letting the country as a whole go to hell and millions of infants to continue to be slaughtered on the alter of Secular Humanism. If you think Christ was more than happy to see those millions slaughtered and thinks your role is to allow the nation to go to hell and thereby take even more souls to hell along with it, fine, keep up the good work.
Look at the fruits of sixty years of hiding in a hole, waiting for the big extraction, and rationalizing the joy you take in dividing people as the best way to win souls. I'd say that the fruits US Christians are known for don't look all that good which means they haven't been going about their task the right way, to say the least. At worst it's an example of people taking so much personal and selfish pride in their faith that they can't help anyone else.
have a nice day, I'll pray for you
I am a Roman Catholic. We do not prosletize(?). You have judged me without knowing what’s truly in my heart. I love the Lord with my entire being and I am considered a Prayer Warrior and have prayed and helped many people. You have judged me wrongly and that is your error. Romneys beliefs are his and his alone. The Lord knows him and I pray for his conversion, as I do for many others.
I watch Pastor Hagee every Sunday before I go to church so please don’t tell me I don’t know Evangelism.
Matthew 7
Judging Others
1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Ask, Seek, Knock
7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
Sure, all of them, Romney, Reid, Hunstman, whoever else...they all believe in what is by any definition a cult. They’re only taken seriously at all because of the amount of time that has passed, but just reading a little of the history and tenets of Mormonism makes it hard to take seriously, kind of like the Scientologists.
Man, talk about rambling gibberish.
Christians are not going to silence them selves from speaking against an anti-Christian cult seeking to steal Christians away from Christianity.
Hubbard came around too late to explain the LDS.
I suspect you were thinking of some older Science Fiction writer. Hubbard and Asimov were contemporaries. According to Wikipedia, Hubbard knew and associated with writers such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp and A. E. van Vogt.
L Ron Hubbard - Mar 13, 1911- Jan 24, 1986
Isaac Asimov - Jan 2, 1920 - Apr 6, 1992
Of course, I must confess I have read almost no Hubbard and almost all of Asimov's great Sci-fi works.
Heinlein is still the best!
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