Posted on 09/08/2012 2:23:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
I’m not sure what you are saying there, but Romney never goes against his religion, and he can’t wrangle a divine update, his Prophet does that.
Mitt has the full support of the leadership of his religion and will never betray his faith.
His faith to us mere earthlings looks a lot like a nod and wink wild card.
Mormons, like Mitt, can waffle with impunity.
And so if the church looks like it’s going to get embarrassed by a change in popular mores? That’s when the “Prophet” kicks in and wangles a new dispensation or whatever. Of COURSE it’s all phony. I’m just saying there also seems to be even less substantive content to it than most would believe.
I see it as a typical cult built to produce income, a business wearing the veneer of a religion that creates and shapes good worker bees for it.
And that may be the size of it. It doesn’t really have the power or motive to force even a high profile member to take a certain social policy stance, as long as it gets its share of the lettuce. If anything that is disappointing, because almost always the charm offensive of the LDS is that they are for clean living. If all Mormon politicians were expected to take that line on pain of being kicked out, America would be a somewhat more civilized place to live. But it also doesn’t make the LDS into a menace that will, say, force Mitt to go easy on abortion for doctrine’s sake.
And hey, does the LDS, if a selfish racket that wants as many worker bees as it can get, really want more abortion in America? Wouldn’t that mean fewer people from which to recruit?
You just don’t get it, Mormonism is not pro-life, and Mormonism does not tolerate any Mormon straying from church teachings that is why Mitt Romney had to excommunicate people.
Bishop Romney is a super Mormon,he is spiritually elite, he is a member of the most devout and obedient 15% of Mormons, he is not a weak or indifferent Mormon he is the opposite, he is a fanatical Mormon.
And that faith is in exactly what then. If teachings can vary at the toss of dice.
I’m not clear on what you mean, what teachings vary at the toss of dice?
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