Posted on 06/03/2007 4:39:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
OTOH, if you vote for Mitt as president because you think he will do a better job than his opponent as president then you don't.
In fact, if you refuse to vote for Mitt because of his religion and allow someone who is dishonest/corrupt/incompetent and is a freedom-hating Constitutional relativist to become our leader, then we all have a problem.
It is sort of like staying at a Marriot. The extent you might be influenced by it being Mormon run is the book of Morman added to the Bible in the bedside table.
“If you are voting to make Mitt Romney your religious leader you may have a problem.”
It is probably best to drop that line.
“Perhaps Hughs point is, Lets not talk about this candidates religious beliefs, theyre not appropriate topics of political discourse. I disagree. The issue is not Romney the man, but Mormonism the religion.”
Let’s see. I wonder if Hewitt would make the same case for an Islamist running for president. Of course he wouldn’t which makes him a hypocrite of the highest order.
Romney would, as the nominee have the daily problem of MSM accounts and Democrat reminders of Mormonism’s weirdest notions.
“Gov. Romney do you really believe that YOU may someday become a god yourself and inherit your own planet”
Pile on top of that the HUGE target Romney’s well documented(and videotaped) late life flip-flops present to Democrats and you have a recipe for electoral disaster.
I just thought your statement needed repeating. I was raised Southern Baptist, and now I am Methodist, and Mitt Romney is my favorite choice so far, not because of his religion, but because he is a good adminstrator, and a decent, sober, faithful to his wife, family man. I wish there were some "professed religious "Christians who were as decent. Even Fred Thompson and his wife were divorced after twenty something years and several children. Rudy married three times. Hillary and Bill hardly share the same bed, they must have some kind of "urban" relationship. John Edwards....now there is a "professed Christian" married to the same woman, but no one on this board would vote for John Edwards, because of his political leanings.
You are right.. of course.
Good points.
Those who follow Christ have the responsibility to follow his example and teach his word. At what point in time did Christ ever spread his gospel by demanding that others defend theirs? When Christ was attacked, what was his response? How did he handle it? Did he yell and scream at his attacker "Liar! Liar!" or did he expound on the scriptures and try to teach the attacker the truth?
Surely, a true disciple of Christ will have the love of Christ in his or her heart. Anyone with a true, personal understanding of Christ's love would not seek to prove others wrong but to build them up in God's truth and love. The desire to prove others wrong or to always be right is not of God. It is human vanity and nothing more.
So, if we are to have this debate, can we strive to follow Christ's example tell each other what we believe to be true and not waste everyone's time with immature and vain rantings? Is that so much to ask?
:-) And may the Peace be with you! Happy Sunday morning to you!
But, if the man running the Marriott insisted that you do someting that HE believed, and refused to accept what YOU believe, then you are influenced.
Mormons believe that God was once a man, who through good works and became God.
That means God has a father, and God also has a grandfather, too.
All these three gods are ‘gods’ over a planet, the way that God, Elohim, is ‘god’ over Earth.
THAT is why Mormons support the SETI program, since they believe that other Mormon gods are out there being god on some other planet, then soon we will be able to contact them.
While I don’t have a problem with the moral views of Mormons, I do have a problem with people calling Mormonism ‘christianity’, cus it sure aint.
Bump. Points well made. Romney will never win the GOP primary in Texas because of his Mormonism - will never happen.
Blam!
Not true.
The Jews do not accept Jesus as their Lord and Saviour.
Jews do not believe in the Trinity.
False. The Jewish God is the Father of the Christian Trinity. Mormons deny the Trinity.
Two out of three ain't bad.
Does two out of three = Blam!?
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