[dfwgator]

How Mormons see the world ("Romney isn't our JFK")

But Harry Reid is.

[Red Badger]

How Mormons see the world

Usually in pairs.........

[svcw]

To bad the article sugar coated the “extermination order”, because they left out why the order was given.
To bad the article sugar coated the “mob story” and didn’t explain why J Smith was in jail and that guns were smuggled into his cell, then there was a jail break.......mob my foot. They way tell it he was a martyr, nope he was a thug.

[colorcountry]

I think Mormons are finally figuring out just how much inspection their wacky religion will undergo if Twitt is the nominee.

[SZonian]

"...the governor of Missouri issued an 1838 executive order calling for all Mormons to be “exterminated or driven from the state.” (The order was finally rescinded in 1976, luckily for Mormons considering job offers in St. Louis.)"

But many stayed behind, even Smith's wife and children. They weren't exterminated or driven from the state.

They wanted the ones who were instigating all the trouble to get out.

[RnMomof7]

We don’t particularly want to take over the White House. For better or for worse, after all that we’ve been through, Mormons would rather just keep to ourselves.

The White Horse prophecy says otherwise

[Antoninus]

For the record, for many Catholics, JFK wasn’t our JFK, either.

[FastCoyote]

[The specter of prejudice and persecution looms large in the Mormon myth.]

Which persecution myth is used to keep Mormons isolated and part of a cult in a feedback loop. The North Koreans use the same “us against them” tactics. I feel sorry for my Mormon friends who I work with daily.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Why sure, Mormons don’t want one of their own in the White House. Sure thing.

[SENTINEL]

Nothing to see here folks, the power hungry corporation of the breakaway LDS sect of mormonism that produced Harry Reid and Mitt Romney has absolutley no interest in controllong a second third of the federal government...Move along now.

[zerosix]

Mormons have been spoon fed that "them against us" routine as a way to keep them separated from the non-Mormon world.

So long as young Mormons believe that the rest of the world is against them, that they must continuously "be on guard against persecution from the gentiles" (aka martyrdom of Jos. Smith.)

They are taught to fear those who would persecute them for having the "real faith."

[dangus]

>> We don’t particularly want to take over the White House. For better or for worse, after all that we’ve been through, Mormons would rather just keep to ourselves. <<

Then why do 77% of Mormons support Romney? (That poll is from before Huntsman got out, making Hunstman’s additional Mormon support all the more incredible.) Can it be that Mormons are more likely to agree with Romney that Kennedy was inadequate in his championing of women’s rights to tear their babies into a pulp? Or are they all supportive of state-run takeovers of the health care industry?