Posted on 01/27/2012 12:18:49 PM PST by mitchell001
Does the thought of Mitt Romney, a devout Mormon and Mormon leader, becoming President scare you? After reading this testimonial of an ex-Mormon ((http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_packham/why.html)), I am scared of Mitt Romney becoming President. Remember when Barack Obama was seeking the nomination in 2008, his 20 year attendance at Jerimiah Wright's church where radical preaching took place was glossed over by the American public and the press. I say we do not make the same mistake with Mitt Romney and his leadership role in the Mormon Church. In the GOP nominating process, let's explore Mitt's Mormon beliefs. Am I totally off base? Please read the link on the ex-Mormon above!
Romney is who he is BECAUSE of his mormonISM.
I would suspect you do feel they seem superior as they as trained that they are superior.
Learn about mormonISM.
No.
Does the thought of a Mormon US President Romney scare you?
Yes, but it's about his slimy, flip-flopping, wishy-washy moderate nature, not his religion.
READ THIS!
When I was in high school, I remember coming across a book about a church that read like that. Only it was about the Roman Catholic Church, not the Church of Latter-day Saints. It's irrelevant.
You better be scared of how the Dems will use Romney’s wacko religion to make him look like a fool in the general election.
Not to mention the historical racism of the Mormon church.
The right is much more religious than the left. The left is more accepting of any “belief system” and scornful of most religion unless it suits their purpose.
Just wait till Mitt’s mormon practices are put in the spotlight. Late night won’t even need writers, because the material will write itself.
I can’t believe the GOP can be this stupid, but money talks.
You might be interested to read the mental ravings of Brian Mitchell, the self-styled Mormon prophet who abducted Elizabeth Smart.
Bible prophecy does demonstrate the similarities of ‘roles’ some flesh beings activists on the lefe and right playing roles that give the ‘signature key’ to what the antichrist will do/be.
The one who tempted Christ is the antichrist. Not some flesh being who needs ‘wall street’ hedge fundies to prop him/her up.
All teaching on Revelation is controversial, as you and I have demonstrated in our posts. :-)
Those who swallowed the muslim won’t gag on the mormon. I just hope e rest of the nation gets off its knees. Go Newt.
I’d rather be stabbed in the front by a known enemy than in the back by an alleged ally.
The problem is that Brian Mitchell represents what Mormonism really is. The reason US settlers in wagon trains were scared of the Mormons was that the Mormons were nuts...remember the Mountain Meadows massacre, which the Mormons initially tried to blame on the Indians.
I have also have people ask me that question.
BHO is AN anti-Christ but I do not beleive he is THE anti-Christ.
Pretty sure THE anti-Christ will be way smarter.
I maintain Mitt's Mormon beliefs are a critical election issue and I raise following arguments in support of this position:
It is not right to say doctrine doesn't matter at all. Take Islam, for instance. It would be dangerously naive to assume, as American civil religion does, that all religions are pretty much the same. It's true that most religions share core ethical teachings, but orthodox Islam also teaches unambiguously that there is to be no separation of religion and state, that non-Muslims are to live subservient under law to Muslims, and in some sects that Allah commands a jihad or "holy war" be waged against non-Muslim "infidels". To the extent that a Muslim wishes to preside over our pluralist liberal democracy, he will have had to break radically from his faith's fundamentals.
Liberals who insist that religion has no place at all in American politics have to account for the Christian roots of many social reforms. Consider for example the abolitionism and the civil rights movement. When faced with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and other black clergymen explicitly appealing to Christian scripture against Jim Crow, Southern segregationists groused that religion had no business in politics. You can't praise religion's role in political discourse only when it advances causes of which you approve or is practiced by constituencies blacks, say, that vote Democratic.
If God doesn't exist, then by what standard do we decide right from wrong? If a society recognizes no independent, transcendent guardian of the moral order, will it not, over time, lose its self-discipline and decline into barbarism? The eminent sociologist Philip Rieff, who was not a believer, said that man would either live in fear of God or would be condemned to live in fear of the evil in himself.
Mitt, himself, has placed his Mormon faith under scrutiny. In his famous speech on Mormonism, Mitt said that a person should not be rejected . . . because of his faith. His supporters say it is akin to rejecting a Barack Obama because he is black. But Obama was born black; Romney is a Mormon because he accepts the beliefs of the Mormon faith. This permits us, therefore, to make inferences about his judgment and character, good or bad.
Mitt has promised to fully obey Mormon teachings without hesitation and without question.
In his February 26, 1980 speech at BYU titled Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet, LDS President Ezra Taft Benson maintained the Mormon Church President spoke with inerrant authority on "any matter, temporal or spiritual " and was "not required to have any particular earthly training or credentials to speak on any subject or act on any matter at any time."Mitt either intended to honor his promises to follow another man's instructions, or he lied. In the case of the former, we are entitled to know where these directives lead, and in the alternative, we should be concerned about Mitt's honesty.As a Temple Mormon, Mormon Bishop and Stake President, Mitt has sworn among other things, he recognizes the President of the LDS Church as a "prophet, seer and revelator," and will "obey the rules, laws, and commandments of the gospel" as proclaimed by Mormon Prophets.
Mitt made these solemn vows with the understanding they effect "time and all eternity."
For these reasons, among others, I assert Mitt’s beliefs are indeed a legitimate issue for determining his qualifications for elected public office.
Gee, what other (so-called) religion has a similar belief?
Not nearly as much as the thought of a two-term racist, anti-Semitic, anti-American muslim do.......
This discussion is crazy talk.
No, and no.
No, but a RINO does.
If you can get by Romneycare his religion is chump change..
Romneycare shows who HE IS not what he wants to be..
The man is a democrat with a (R) by his name..
Actually, I was not referring to 'Revelation'. Moses was the first prophet. Revelation is a book that overlays in a different prospective the book of Daniel. And yes while Revelation is by many considered prophetic it was not the first to record the warning. My own personal way to describe the prophets is the prism... 'ONE' light gives different reflections upon who what where when and why.
Actually, I should have been more clear. When I use the word “antichrist”, I’m really referring to the beast in Revelation, as described in chapter 13
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