I’m sorry, but asking Romney these sorts of questions would amount to nothing more than an attack on his (constitutionally protected, private, personal) beliefs specifically and the Mormon faith generally. If you want to attack Mormonism, do it- it’s a damned easy target, as you’ve demonstrated. But doing this through the guise of criticizing Romney is silly. If Romney has made public defenses of the church, then those are fair grounds to question him on. Drawing equivalency between Romney’s beliefs and the actions of his church is a little silly, too- a person can remain convinced of his religious faith without accepting the actions of the central body of that faith, as the recent crises in the Catholic Church demonstrate. This sort of thing is reminiscent of the questioning from the press that John Kennedy faced, too.
How are his religious beliefs at all relevant to his proposed political policies? Not at all.
I demand the press hound him on about the initials LDS used by this religion. It’s almost as if Mormons are all on and promoting the use of acid.
Ditto these.
I know I shouldn’t, but it’s hard to take seriously someone who believes that the lost tribes of Israel came to North America and that the Garden of Eden was in Missouri. Is that really someone we want to trust with the nuclear launch codes?
Talking snakes and virgin births are silly too, but they at least have a couple thousand years of murkiness to them.
Irrelevant, really. Mormonism, Catholicism; Buddhism; Scientology; Hinduism; Islam; it’s all equally silly. Old & stupid is just as stupid as new & stupid. If you are going to condemn one for being irrational you should condemn them all equally.
So, religion in general but Christianity in specific is inherently superior to atheism, produces smarter, more effective students and better citizens in general and is eminently rational and cogent. Unless it’s the wrong type of Christianity, and then it’s a bar to public office and we need to get to the bottom of it right away.
Kay.
I oppose Romney a lot more for his total reversals on policy, which IMHO left him on the wrong side of those issues, than for the wackiness and secretiveness of Mormonism.
“Proposed” is the operative word. Romney is known for his reversals of policy.
Strip Romney down to his hidden agenda and you have Glen Beck.
Okay,okay, I’m not really serious.
Only to the extent that he opposed abortion, same sex marriage, and other social issues because of them.
However, the ceremony DID show a traditional Christian preacher as a hireling of Satan.
To the OP. it’s Kolob, not Kobol.
As to if Mormons are Christians, they are worshippers of God the Father & Jesus Christ & the Holy Spirit. However, the CoJCoLDS do not define Them the same way traditional Christianity does. THAT is the main point of controversy.
Actually former President Bush is a liberal Methodist. Apparently people nowadays equate social conservative with religious fundamentalist.
Well they reject the Nicene view of the Trinity and have rather unorthodox views on the afterlife.
LOL. Most Catholic churches have images of mutilated torture victims on display where small children can see them and ask their members to engage in ritual cannibalism. Asking teenagers to swear to disembowel themselves seems pretty tame by comparison.
The same two things can be said of the Jehovah’s witnesses, but nobody says they aren’t Christians. Trying to define Christianity as being exclusive to only trinitarian versions is just a Scotman.
I’ll add that it’s always funny when someone who follows a mainstream religion takes issue with the bizarre rituals of Mormonism, or Scientology, or Wicca, or Rastafarianism, or whatever.
Here’s a little hint: **Your own religious beliefs and practices look exactly as kinky and kooky when viewed from the outside. You’re just so accustomed to them you don’t notice.
I suppose they could be called “Christians” in the sense they call themselves such and derive their theology from the Bible. However they’re in great error theologically speaking about as much as the Muslims which in a sense is a branch of Christianity.
As someone raised Catholic, I have to say that it’s hard for me to appreciate just how horrifying the whole “ritualistic cannibalism” must seem to someone not raised in the Christian tradition. Although many probably slough it off as merely symbolic, it was pounded into my head by the nuns that the host was the actual body of Christ, not something symbolic. Oh, and then the blood… :eek:
How can you tell?
A Christian is someone who follows the teachings of Christ. And each individual gets to define and interpret what that means. Period. You don’t get to label everybody else’s beliefs. As a matter of fact, I’m pretty sure J-Dogg would not be cool with that. Better repent.
Way back in 1994, when Romney was running for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat (sorry, “the people’s seat”) he was asked about the past racism of his church. I believe he claimed to have been against the church’s policies at the time. Given that his father was known for strongly supporting civil rights while Governor of Michigan in the 60’s even as he was criticized by his church, he certainly had some credibility in doing so.
The whole issue pretty much backfired on the Kennedy campaign, though, of course, they did still win.