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Romney: Nice Guy, Weird Religion. What's the Problem?
Boston Herald ^
| August 7, 2007
| Michael Graham
Posted on 08/07/2007 2:43:12 AM PDT by suspects
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posted on
08/07/2007 2:43:16 AM PDT
by
suspects
To: suspects
He is as liberal as many of the rats, he is just lying to sound conservative hoping to win.
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posted on
08/07/2007 2:44:38 AM PDT
by
Hydroshock
("The Constitution should be taken like mountain whiskey -- undiluted and untaxed." - Sam Ervin)
To: suspects
Hold on, grabbing the popcorn, you are in for a ride with this post. Been there, done it. Good luck you bigot /s/
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posted on
08/07/2007 2:57:33 AM PDT
by
mmanager
(Fred instead of Purebred, Crossbred and the Hothead)
To: suspects
Talk about your weird organizations, how about a political party and it’s media & university members who more often than not share the views of the terrorist enemies of our nation.
It’s Romney’s constitutional right to religious freedom the Boston Herals is trying to infringe here. Seems to me we heard less about the religion of the first Moslem Congressman, although I do remember that was heralded. The fact he didn’t want to use the Bible during his swearing in was considered quite cool by the media as I recall.
There are some glaring double standards in this nation today.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:10:54 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking it's heritage.)
To: DoughtyOne
Its Romneys constitutional right to religious freedom the Boston Herals is trying to infringe here. A newspaper can't "infringe", the government is the entity that would infringe upon his wierdo religion.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:15:39 AM PDT
by
glorgau
To: DoughtyOne
Actually Graham pretty much agrees with my opinion in his offering, so I should offer a retraction of my condemnation.
I’m glad he went that route. Sorry I took him to task based on a misimpression from the headline.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:18:25 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking it's heritage.)
To: suspects
I don’t care about his religion, he is from Massachusetts, and that’s bad enough.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:23:02 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: glorgau
So individual citizens and organizations can’t infringe on the constitutional rights of others? Would you like to reconsider?
BTW, I don’t think the Herald was wrong here. I misinterpreted intent from the headline, my mistake.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:23:19 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking it's heritage.)
To: suspects
How does a Republican get elected as Governor in a state whose registered Democratic voters out number their Republican counterparts 3 to one, and the state legislature is 85% liberal?
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:26:50 AM PDT
by
tiger-one
(The night has a thousand eyes)
To: tiger-one
Because there are many more independent voters in Massachusetts than there are democrats.
To: suspects
I believe that a Jewish Carpenter born 2000 years ago is God incarnate. It doesn’t get much weirder than that.
I comes down to faith, either you have it or you don’t.
Faith does not have to go through peer review because its a faith not a science.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:47:47 AM PDT
by
Mikey_1962
(The last Americans to allow unchecked immigration...... were Native.)
To: Andy'smom
Which means the Independents are electing the 85% Liberal state legislature's. Same voting for Mitt.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:55:56 AM PDT
by
tiger-one
(The night has a thousand eyes)
To: suspects
Does his "religion" believe that you must submit or be killed?
Are zealots in his religion blowing up cities, flying planes into buildings, spreading terror around the world?
Until it gets to that point I could care less about his religion.
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posted on
08/07/2007 4:07:53 AM PDT
by
evad
To: suspects
I find it strange that so many Christians are so quick to put aside their faith and claim it has no or should have no bearing on their choice for the leader of their country.
I am sorry to all those who would call me a bigot, but Romney’s faith does matter - to me. I believe in Jesus Christ and will vote with that belief guiding my decision.
I know that leaves me a devil’s bargain most of the time. But Romney’s faith is antithetical to the most basic of my beliefs and I cannot nor will not support it.
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posted on
08/07/2007 4:16:21 AM PDT
by
txzman
(Jer 23:29)
To: Andy'smom
One wonders if those independents take responsibility for
Cadillac Deval and his multibillion$$ plans to provide
education, housing, medical care for illegal aliens
and eloquent rapists.
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posted on
08/07/2007 4:19:09 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: evad
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posted on
08/07/2007 4:22:37 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: Diogenesis
Of course not, but it made them “feel good” to vote for him.
To: Mikey_1962
I don’t see what’s weird about this. Are you calling Christianity weird? Isn’t this a Christian forum?
The truth of Christianity is revealed in the Bible. It doesn’t mention anything about John Smith.
To: DoughtyOne
I see no reason why Romney’s religion should be an issue. Doesn’t the Constitution forbid religious tests for office?
Of course, people are free to vote as they choose. Islam preaches Jihad, the violent kind. We are infidels in their eyes and deserve to die or to live as second class citizens with no rights. They have made war upon us. I think voting for a Muslim is voting for someone who will betray our country when the time is right.
Ann Coulter makes the case that liberalism is a religion. The possible sticking point is the idea of a Godless religion. I gather that there are some (Hinduism? Budhism?). Certainly atheism is a world view, at least. The people that I've known who had the greatest drive to convert are atheists. I think environmentalism rises to the level of a religion for some people. Anyway, liberals do often prefer our enemies to our friends. Voting for liberals strikes me as suicide, be it slow or fast.
Those are the only two religions that cause me problems. Islam because it is murderous and has no allegiance to my country. Liberalism because it is anti-market, and often prefers our enemies to our allies and defenders.
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posted on
08/07/2007 5:31:37 AM PDT
by
ChessExpert
(Mohamed was not a moderate Muslim)
To: suspects
My own take on the book of Mormonisim is that it was a product of Spiritualism. Upstate New York was a hot bed of spiritualism at that time. My guess is that Joseph Smith and his friends were tipping tables and got the message. Probably from a disconnected part of his own consciousness that acted as a separate entity. I don’t think it was a very highly spiritual part of his consciousness any way (my opinion). Being simple folks they swallowed it and then when they had a hard time selling it they invented stories of angels appearing in the bed room and golden tablets being taken up into heaven etc. The wilder the story the more believable it became. I basically believe that there is a broad religion and the religions are gnerally linked through an esoteric or hidden side. I do not see this side in the Book of Mormon or in the Koran which was a channeled book also(and from a dubious source as well).
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posted on
08/07/2007 6:21:40 AM PDT
by
bilhosty
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