The End of the World is truly near...
I was raised Southern Babtist...the church I went to in eighties had “Mormon Cult Night”....where films where showed denouncing mormonism as a cult and a threat to the world...etc...
The fact that a leader of the Babtist Church is endorsing Romney is an amazing event.
And I think that you've hit on a significant part of the problem. I'm Mormon and I had friends who would talk to me after their pastors showed such films or gave their annual "Mormon cult threat" sermons. And everything that their pastors were telling them or showing them were lies. I was absolutely shocked at some of the lies that my friends reported their pastors were telling them or that were contained in some of those films. When you have millions of church-goers watching films and hearing sermons about the Mormon church that are absolute falsehoods, you create millions of people who believe those falsehoods who then oppose Mormons.
And actually, the majority of Baptist churches in South Carolina are not affiliated with Dr. Wilton’s convention. There are more independent Baptist churches in SC than there are SBC churches.
I only emphasize these facts to point out that Dr. Wilton’s endorsement is merely his own. Dr. Wilton does not speak for most Baptists in SC.
“I was raised Southern Babtist...the church I went to in eighties had “Mormon Cult Night”....where films where showed denouncing mormonism as a cult and a threat to the world...etc...”
Threat to the world? LOL! I bet that film was ‘The Godmakers’, it has been totally discredited (http://www.fairlds.org/The_God_Makers/)
That kind of stuff is one of the great differences between the conduct of Mormons and Baptists. We would NEVER have a meeting or show a film specificly to attack another faith and promote fear and bigotry against it.
“The fact that a leader of the Babtist Church is endorsing Romney is an amazing event.”
Along with Bob Jones III and others, yes, I think it is something of a miracle that hearts are being turned away from the hatred of the past. This kind of thing is exactly what several hard-core Mormon haters have feared about Mitt’s run for POTUS. Not that he will be a bad POTUS, but that he will be a good POTUS and undermine their smearing of Mormons.
It will be very hard for them to demonize us and spread fear, bigotry and lies about us when the truth that we are pretty normal people who live Christian values becomes common knowledge. After 177 years of trying to marginalize us, they are being marginalized.