~”Romney is the LDS HQ ticket to mainstream acceptance.”~
Once again, we come to it. Without discussing the merits of the assertion, that’s what really bothers you. Mormons bother you so much that you’ll do anything to see to it that we aren’t offered the privilege of mainstream acceptance.
Where’s your faith in God? If we are wrong, we will fail along with every other false doctrine. Why is the mainstreaming of Mormonism such a problem, if it’s in opposition to God? Doesn’t He have the power to defeat the false? That’s why I leave your religion alone.
~”...you’ll see there’s no shared merits accumulated in Romney’s track record.”~
Then why do you expend so much energy attacking his religion, if attacking his record is so much more effective?
We need to define what "mainstream acceptance" is: If a Mormon-is-a-Christian-and-a-Christian-is-an-apostate (as LDS would redefine it), then we have come full circle to Smith's false vision from two unnamed personages. Now why would you expect Christians to have such welcoming arms to being labeled "corrupt" full of abominable beliefs? We're now supposed to assist Mormons in labeling what is precious to the Lord as His Word as an "abomination?"
Where’s your faith in God? If we are wrong, we will fail along with every other false doctrine.
Why did Paul & Jesus warn others about counterfeits? (Where was their faith? Is that what we should be asking?)
Paul: "Be on guard for yourselves & for all the flock...savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. And men from among yourselves will rise up with deviant doctrines to lure the disciples into following them. Therefore, be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears." (Acts 20:28-31)
(Sounds like a pretty high priority of Paul's, doncha think? Wasn't Smith from a Protestant-linked family? Did he not "rise up" with distinct "doctrines" and did he not "lure" other "disciples into following" him?)
Jesus: "If anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or, "over here!' do not beleive it! False messiahs and false prophets will arise...to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. Take note: I have told you in advance." (Matt. 24:23-25)
Why is the mainstreaming of Mormonism such a problem, if it’s in opposition to God? Doesn’t He have the power to defeat the false?
Why did Paul make a custom of visiting with the religious people of his day when he entered a new town...heading off to the synagogue? If those proclaiming what they were was in opposition to God, didn't He have the power to defeat the false? Why do you assume God doesn't use men & women to defeat the false?
May I suggest you re-read Acts 17-19 to see how Paul and Apollos & others confronted the false & incomplete religious people of their day. (And how this wasn't because they "lacked faith?")
That’s why I leave your religion alone.
Do you tithe to the LDS church? If not, do you give a significant portion of your income to that church? Do they publish the Pearl of Great Price (PoGP)? Does the PoGP label all "Christian sects" as 100% full of "corrupt professors?" Does the PoGP say "ALL" "Christian sects...are wrong?" Does the PoGP say our creeds are "ALL" an "abomination in His sight?" Do your funds go toward missionaries whose families cannot afford to pay their own way? Do your million missionaries (accumulative total according to LDS PR Web site) have as one of their top 4 lessons to teach the doctrine of the apostasy & restoration? Does this doctrine teach a 100% apostasy of the Christian church by the 4th century? Is this doctrine taught in numerous LDS publications paid for by your (& other LDS) offerings? What about the Book of Mormon? All of the above applies to that material as well...Doesn't the BoM teach that the great "abominable church" will persecute the Saints in the latter days? Doesn't it teach that this "church is of the devil?" Doesn't it teach that there's only 2 churches, one of which the LDS church says is the Church of the Lamb...thereby pinpointing the rest to be the "church of the devil?"
And yet you have the nerve to claim you don't attack us?