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A Mormon Reporter On The Romney Bus
Buzzfeed ^ | Novermber 14, 2012 | McKay Coppins

Posted on 11/14/2012 3:52:19 PM PST by greyfoxx39

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The Romney candidacy was the mormon church's most ambitious bid for legitimacy with Christian America. This article by a temple mormon attempts to whitewash the sect and its anti-Christian doctrines and history as "just another Christian" religion while portraying Romney as a paragon of religious virtue who couldn't possibly have been the driving force of the vicious primary campaigns in '08 and '12.

Rewriting history is a much-used tool of mormonism. Rewriting Romney as a hero doesn't wash for those of us who watched him destroy good men in his quest for power.

1 posted on 11/14/2012 3:52:27 PM PST by greyfoxx39
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Ping


2 posted on 11/14/2012 3:54:12 PM PST by greyfoxx39 (We told you Mitt couldn't win.)
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Rewriting history is a much-used tool of mormonism. Rewriting Romney as a hero doesn't wash for those of us who watched him destroy good men in his quest for power.

Bingo


3 posted on 11/14/2012 3:57:16 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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The only question remaining is, who will issue the fatwa?
4 posted on 11/14/2012 3:58:19 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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Really?

Pinged the haters, huh?

I blame you all for Romney losing the election.


5 posted on 11/14/2012 3:59:17 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (The Click-&-Paste Media exists & works in Utopia, riding unicorns & sniffing pixy dust.)
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“I blame you all for Romney losing the election.”

Just needed more Log Cabin types.


6 posted on 11/14/2012 4:01:44 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans. Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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And I blame you for not actually proving charges and nominating a weak candidate.......the blame is on you and all the cowards who screamed "Romney's the only guys who can win".

pssst your ignorant charge is not borne out by any facts.........not that facts would matter to you apparently

7 posted on 11/14/2012 4:02:01 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: Tenacious 1

Prepare for multiple posts of Scripture spanning untold inches.


8 posted on 11/14/2012 4:02:54 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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Prepare for multiple posts of Scripture of spanning untold truth inches.
9 posted on 11/14/2012 4:05:32 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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Wait a minute . . . what does Romney’s religion have to do with him being a weak candidate? Big oops, on your part.


10 posted on 11/14/2012 4:06:31 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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....And now we see the real difference between Campingites and Salt Lake sect mormons. When Harold Camping's latest prophecy didn't come true his followers had the smarts/shame/honor to finally shut up.
11 posted on 11/14/2012 4:06:47 PM PST by SENTINEL (Election 2012....One more false prophecy by FLDS/LDS "prophet" Joseph Smith)
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Well, he keeps raising the underwear issue in this article, but he doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to provide any answers to curious readers. Are we just expected to say, “Oh, well, that’s OK then. We won’t ask.”


12 posted on 11/14/2012 4:08:33 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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What I posted: And I blame you for not actually proving charges and nominating a weak candidate.......the blame is on you and all the cowards who screamed “Romney’s the only guys who can win”.

pssst your ignorant charge is not borne out by any facts.........not that facts would matter to you apparently

Show me where in that statement did I bring up Romney’s religion, you really need to stop focusing on it.


13 posted on 11/14/2012 4:11:51 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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I’m sorry, you must have forgotten that I’ve been following your posts for years.


14 posted on 11/14/2012 4:12:54 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Tenacious 1
I blame you all for Romney losing the election.

I don't think a handful of FReepers could possibly have caused the disastrous failure of the ORCA attempt at matching Obama's ground game...perhaps the "mini-mitt-mormons" described in this article were involved in that farce.

In any case, remember there were 52,000 mormon missionaries out there proselytizing for mormonism in much the same way this author does and quite probably 90% of the mormons in the US were electioneering for him.

15 posted on 11/14/2012 4:14:16 PM PST by greyfoxx39 (We told you Mitt couldn't win.)
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Romney’s first instinct was to try to persuade the religious right that Mormonism was just another Christian sect.
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Willard’s first lnstinct...lying...


16 posted on 11/14/2012 4:15:42 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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I don't think that a handful of FReepers amounts to anything, either. Which makes me wonder . . . why would anyone post something about Romney, in order to accuse Mormons of whitewashing and rewriting history?

Seriously, I'm not Mormon, just wondering why.

17 posted on 11/14/2012 4:19:21 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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The jet’s owner, a Catholic businessman with no ties to the Mormon Church beyond Romney, became indignant.

“There’s no difference between Joseph Smith receiving the Book of Mormon, and Moses going up to Mount Sinai and talking to a burning bush,” the jet owner argued.
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Well that right there is ignorance gone to seed...

Mormonism is no more related to Judaism than it is to Christianity...

Mormonism is a false religion...a cult..


18 posted on 11/14/2012 4:23:21 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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Read the article. Coppins himself says "As a Mormon, I intuitively understood Romney's desire to paper over our religion's eccentricities, and disappear the darker chapters of our church's history."

Sheesh!!

20 posted on 11/14/2012 4:27:28 PM PST by greyfoxx39 (We told you Mitt couldn't win.)
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