Posted on 04/20/2012 3:28:09 AM PDT by Colofornian
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...Could anybody seriously object to such a candidate?
The answer...: Yes, they can. Among the main objectors are Baptists and Evangelical Christians...as well as members of the Tea Party...Together, they form a majority within the Republican Party, and they are all suspicious of Romney because he's...Mormon. Traditionalists hold that Mormons like him are not Christians because they claim that God was a human being and that human beings can be gods...
Romney is too cautious to confidently address the issue of his faith. Nevertheless, his friends are telling him that the only way to make peace with the religious wing of the Republican Party is to start talking about Mormonism, about his family's history in Mexico, about the once-common practice of polygamy and about the Mormons' relationship with America.
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"Our forefathers had no Reformation, like that of Martin Luther, because they believed that all churches since the resurrection of Christ were corrupt. They wanted to re-establish Christianity in its original form. That was their Restoration," Richard Hinckley says with proud equanimity...polygamy became one of the customs of the new, syncretistic religion. Hinckley's great-grandfather had two wives, while Joseph Smith had many more -- between 33 and 44...
Richard's father, Gordon...was the president of the Mormons, the church's equivalent of the pope...
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The church is indeed fixed and unmovable, a monument to its own self-focused nature, says Will Bagley, a historian who has discussed the legends of the Mormons in most of the two dozen books he has written...
"I'm a retired Mormon," says Bagley, 62, with a hearty laugh...
...Bagley says that Joseph Smith was a religious genius because he "created the god of the Yankees," who permitted the faithful to become gods themselves. "What could be more American than the belief in eternal progress?" Bagley asks...
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
So...the son of Lds 'prophet' Gordon B. Hinckley, Richard Hinckley, openly slanders Christian churches in this international publication: ...because they believed that ALL churches since the resurrection of Christ were corrupt.
Well, Richard Hinckley is only repeating what is primary Mormon doctrine -- and what Mitt Romney believes...(My, how "inspiring" that is...Instead of "kissing" Christian babies, Mitt comes up to a Christian family in campaign mode, smiles, and labels the entire clan "corrupt.")
Want documentation that this is mainstream Mormonism? (see chart below)
Mitt Romney, Dec, 2007, speaking @ the George Bush Presidential Library: "I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers – I will be true to them and to my beliefs."
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Snapshot of Joseph Smith’s Slanderous Invectives vs. Christian Sects |
Mormon Source[Note: Most of these are Mormon ‘scriptures'. In fact, First three rows below are Lds 'scripture' & therefore cannot be rug-swept any more than a Jew might try to take three commandments off of the very tablets of stone Moses brought down from the mountain] |
| “...which of all the sects was right… must join NONE of them, for they were ALL WRONG… those professors were ALL CORRUPT…” | Joseph Smith – History vv. 18-19. – Lds "scripture" Pearl of Great Price |
| ...“which of all the sects was right…ALL their CREEDS were an ABOMINATION in his sight…they teach for doctrines the commandments of MEN…” | Joseph Smith – History vv. 18-19. – Lds "scripture" Pearl of Great Price |
| Mormon church the only ‘Christ-sanctioned’ church on earth: “…the foundation of this [Mormon] church…the ONLY true and living church on the face of the whole earth” [Obvious ‘scorched earth’ implication: All other churches are false and dead] | Lds “scripture” Doctrines & Covenants 1:30 |
| Direct question asked of Joseph Smith: 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons?" Answer from Lds "prophet" Joseph Smith: 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." | Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119 [Not “scripture” – but still publicly spoken by the Mormon ‘living prophet’ and published by a later Mormon ‘living prophet,’ Joseph Fielding Smith – via a publisher owned by the Mormon church – Deseret News Press, 1938] |
| “In 1952…the first official proselyting plan was sent to missionaries throughout the world…It included seven missionary discussions that emphasized…[four topics, one of them being]…THE APOSTASY and Restoration…” [This makes it almost 60 years that Mormon church missionaries, now numbering 52,000, have formally emphasized in its training & door to door saturation a priority in bashing the worldwide Christian church as “apostates” (100% AWOL)] | Our Heritage: A Brief History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints p. 116, 1996 |
Indeed, the "I'm-a-god-possessed Mormons"...inventor of the 'Yankee' gods...
One of the past Lds "prophets" is Joseph Fielding Smith:
"President Joseph Fielding Smith said: ... 'in order to become gods, it is necessary for us to know something about pain, about sickness, and about the other things that we partake of in this school of mortality.'" (Seek Ye Eartnestly, pp. 4-5) as quoted in Choose You This Day Melchizek priesthood study guide (pp. 54-55).
Ed Decker had the title right back in the 1980s: 'The God-Makers'
Yeah, Harry Reid and Orrin Hatch have the same problem. Reid has been reelected since ‘86 and Hatch since ‘76. Yep, being Mormon is political poison, a real third rail for anyone trying their hand in the elective arena.
Not bad for political polar opposites at least on the surface.
You’re right! Now if only Mitt were running to be the President of Utah and Nevada...
Maybe this is one of the reasons he is being chosen for us. To deflect from that thug Obama.
What!!??
I am truly shocked!!!
...the presidential campaign of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in 1844: “Challenging Democrat James Polk and Whig Henry Clay, Smith prophesied that if the U.S. Congress did not accede to his demands that ‘they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them.’
Smith viewed capturing the presidency as part of the mission of the church.
Not much has changed!
So which Christian hating family should we elect to live in the White House?
I rattled and upset some of the “elites”. Mission accomplished!
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No, the mission you accomplished is sending another long time Freeper away, and to the GOP Briefing Room. Me.
Because the insanity tolerated here, many good Freepers have left FR and can now be found having level-headed intelligent discussions about this election at the GOPBR, without all the religious bigotry, or the willful destruction of the last man in left in America that can kick Obama and his evil horde of communist radicals out of the White House. I think I will join those former Freepers. And I will self-ZOT myself, being there is no “cancel my membership” button to be found, and I invite moderators to terminate my account.
What flavor is YOUR Kool-aide®?
Uh...
You need to actually PING one of them.
Name for me a single nationally known CONSERVATIVE mormon politician.
It doesn't exist....
Why not ping JR, after 8 years I would think that you are well aware of how phony your post is without doing that.
You know very well that you cannot self zot, you just go sleeper mode until the next time that you want to use your account to promote liberalism and Mormonism.
And next you'll be telling us that it isn't hard for a Mormon to be elected dogcatcher as well...and yeah, that'd be correct. On a power & discernment-needed & character eval continuum, a Congressman is closer to a dogcatcher than THE leader of the free world (POTUS).
If you can't see that huge gap, trust-wise...I'm sorry for you.
Why be the party that enables either?
If you conjointly owned commercial property with some non-Christians...
...& you had the "tenet" choice 'tween...
...a porn outlet that doubles as a prostitution center & results in STDs, a few abortions, a few broken marriages...
...vs. an abortion clinic open for "business" a few days a month,
...if your personal choice was to either choose one of these two above...
...or choose a third tenet willing to pay much, much less on the lease -- and therefore not at all lucrative to your partners...
...would you try to sort out the "lesser of two evils" and be a party to either of the above?
Really???
Would you sear your conscience with either of the above...
...Knowing that you would (a) be forever compromising your ability to speak out on either the porn or abortion industries ever again? And (b) With full voluntary consent, be participating in the sin of others? (1 Tim. 5:22)
This is a waterloo election.
So...we can either vote for...
...Obama, who seems to be able to recite the shahada (Muslim prayer) perfectly...
...is a socialist healthcare pioneer...
...a big govt pioneer...
...pro-abortion...
...will appoint liberal judges...etc.
Or, you can vote for Romney...
...who is a "god" and will become the pioneer cult posterboy for the Lds church to spend $millions of PR on to get your kids & grandkids to grow up & be cult members like him...
...is a socialist healthcare pioneer...
...a big govt pioneer...
...pro-abortion...
...will appoint liberal judges...etc.
...Or you can vote third party.
'Cause if you vote for a big govt liberal like Romney, forget about the GoP having a "base" to go back to...
...forget about the power-mongers in the GoP ever offering up a true conservative again...
Oh...and btw...while the "Christian-hating" by both candidates is a consideration, I don't consider it as THE primary criteria...
...meaning I, too, don't want to see evals being made upon...
...ONLY re: how a candidate effects me
...how he effects my wallet...
...how he effects my SELF-survival...
If we were really concerned about "survival" as a nation, we wouldn't have a major pro-abort in the White House and the GoP wouldn't be offering up a "pro-abort" to represent the rest of us...
Because this all shows we could care less about the survival of the pre-born...
...therefore, either candidate will rain down judgement upon America...
Since the Christians will probably decide this election along with the Independents...
...How do you think God will feel...
...knowing His people participated in the elevation of an open idolatry candidate?
If Obama said tomorrow he was Messiah II, and Christians voted him in, wouldn't that be elevating a false competitor to Jesus Christ? (Yes)
Therefore, when a temple Mormon like Mitt believes he is already a "god in embryo" on his way to full-grown godhood as a future rival to God for glory, worship, adoration, adulation, reception of prayers, and the right to create spirit babies while ruling his own world, that sounds to be like God has plenty of room to judge both the Christian church in the U.S. as well as our nation itself.
As Douthat has written in his recent book, we are indeed a nation of heretics. (So many Americans are either one; or they'll wink at it; or they'll openly elevate & endorse it)
“Restore in its original form” - good grief someone show me where in the Bible its says Joseph Smith will sit at a table and help (lds) jesus decide who gets to go to heaven.
Or where in the Bible is says satan and(lds) jesus are brothers.
Or where it says (lds) jesus was created, not eternal.
“original form” my ....
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