Romney: Colorado shooting is 'unspeakable tragedy' (with video)

L.A. Times ^ | 7/20/12 | Seema Mehta

[presently no screen name]

If you can’t take the heat - leave. Wusses and trouble makers complain to stop anything that makes them uncomfortable. Yours has been noted.

[Loud Mime]

Religious bigotry turns people into ugly creatures.

May I recommend some philosophy courses, or one on critical thinking?

[Loud Mime]

Wusses and trouble makers complain to stop anything that makes them uncomfortable.

....as you're doing now.

FR has guidelines concerning insults. They've chastised me for one remark - as they should you.

[Finny]

Now it's, "Let's learn to talk to the bully and get him to quit."

Yep. And now it's "Let's roll over to the bully because we sure don't want to fight him because that's dangerous and risky! So instead we'll talk to the bully and talk to each other about how awful it is that there are bullies in the world."

Instead of, "Fight back and run the bully off."

[presently no screen name]

Going around calling people ‘religious nuts’ is a religious bigot, so stop projecting ugly creature.

You can recommend nothing to me. So you know what you can do with your philosophy - and critical thinking - seems it made you what you are and that’s a piss poor recommendation for anything! Ta ta - continue your roaming around and complaining about the heat when you bump into Truth!

[presently no screen name]

LOL!! Get real and stop playing the victim. Your liberalism is showing. "If I got chastised, so should you'. Grow up!

The liberal mindset 'If you have ten dollars, so should I', "if you got a raise, so should I.' 'If they like you, they should like, me, also'

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Romney: Colorado shooting is ‘unspeakable tragedy’

I wish somebody would start talking abut MORAL EVIL in this day and age.

The problem is, the moment you start talking about evil, you also imply that there is good, that there is right and wrong.

People avoid using these words because they don’t want to sound judgmental.

[Jim Robinson]

Not to worry. Romney has a government solution for every problem.

“We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts. I support them. I won’t chip away at them. I believe they protect us and help provide for our safety.” ~~Mitt Romney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OQoBxZZPqU (at 5:27)

[Elsie]

You should not insult others like that.

Agreed!!

Do like the MORMONs do!!!

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Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).

Joseph Smith: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).

 

 

 

Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).

 

 

 

Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).

 

 

 

Orson Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses

, vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses , 18:172).

 

 

President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses , 10:127).

 

 

 

James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (A Study of the Articles of Faith, p.182).

 

 

 

President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (Doctrines of Salvation, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282).

 

 

 

More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, p.316).

 

 

 

President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).

 

 

President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 2, p.196).

[Elsie]

Then get out of the kitchen!

[Elsie]

Religious bigotry turns people into ugly creatures.

[Eleutheria5]

No. Tragedy. If only guns weren’t around, this wouldn’t happen./sarc

What the Dems are looking for is a new Joe Camel. In 1996, the people had repudiated socialized medicine, tax increases, and the First Couple, but they found a scapegoat, Joe Camel, whom Big Tobacco was using to sell carcinogenic cigarettes to school children (back when I used to smoke, I found Camels entirely too harsh; for school children it would be doubly so, but no matter). So now they need a new phony issue to demagogue against, preferably a commodity available to the consumer. Presenting: Guns. It’s Big Guns and the Gun Lobby that’s marketing guns so they can make their evil profits by selling guns and bullets to psychotic killers who are looking to shoot up shopping malls and schoolyards. If only guns weren’t available, those psycho killers would go seek professional help, and not some chlorine and amonia to mix together and throw down an air vent. So it’s a tragedy, caused by guns. This will be at least one of the Dem strategies. And Mit will help them by calling it a “tragedy”. How tragic, that the presumptive nominee is so clueless.

[Elsie]

They've chastised me for one remark - as they should you.

Oh?

Which ONE?

[Elsie]

In 2008, the state of Colorado had approximately 44 deaths EVERY DAY from CHOICE.

[MEG33]

The scroll feature is one I use frequently and I highly recommend it. It’s almost as good as an ignore button.

[1035rep]

“He spoke well on this sad day.”

I agree.

[1035rep]

“The scroll feature is one I use frequently and I highly recommend it. “

bttt

[Crucial]

Romney sounded much more presidential. Barry had to include himself in his comments on the shooting.

[MEG33]

;o)