‘Vote for Romney is vote for Satan’
Wow. I had no idea he’d tap Cheney as his running-mate.
Hey, did I mention that John & the Missus are up to speed at Wuzzadem? That foot injury really messed up his brain for a while.
‘Vote for Romney is vote for Satan’
Wow. I had no idea he’d tap Cheney as his running-mate.
Hey, did I mention that John & the Missus are up to speed at Wuzzadem? That foot injury really messed up his brain for a while.
Heh.
Look…I used to be one of the LDS’s biggest defenders. I am a deist, so I have no dog in the fight. I believe that the LDS has done great things in this world, and that most Mormons are great people. But after much recent research, it has become clear to me that the LDS does have more in common with cults such as Scientology than it does with the rest of Christianity.
The Mormon god was once mortal, has a wife, and has constraints placed on his behavior. Mormons believe that we each have the capacity to become a god ourselves.
Frankly Islam and Judaism have more in common with most of Christianity than the LDS does.
Y’mean that little gold plate I found buried in my backyard was put there by SATAN!!?
Dang. I bet that sucker’s worth some scratchola, huh? Ebay, here I come!
I’m really more concerned about how people actually behave than every freakin’ piece of their religion. If they don’t bother me or mine, raise well-mannered children, and are productive citizens, my apathy level can’t be measured by today’s instruments.
gahrie
early Christianity was considered a “jewish cult” so I’m not all that apt to get the vapors when the “cult” label is tossed about.
“Scientology” seems less a cult than a sham corporate entity with a business plan to separate the rubes from their wallets. As long as the rubes leave me alone, who am I to interfer with their own fleecing?
But on the whole, I don’t really care if someone gets their values from the Bible or from the little people in giant redwoods…it is what those values are and how they are expressed via behavior that I key on.
When someone decides that Mitt, or other Mormons, “don’t believe in God”, or that there is something sinister about the “magic underwear” I want to know where the beef is with what Mormons actually do in regards to their basic social behavior.
By and large I have encountered Mormons who take seriously their commitments to family and community. While they do engage in missionary work (those nice young men who turn up at the door now and then in white shirts and black ties) they aren’t pushy or apt to engage in “you’re going to hell!” conversations. And they certainly aren’t planning to blow up military installations in an effort to bring about a worldwide Mormon totalitarian regime.
Full disclaimer… my paternal grandmother was Mormon (her family actually coming to Utah along with Brigham Young)..but she was a feisty “Jack” Mormon (she hid the booze and cigarrettes when the elders came to visit) who had no problems with her kids and grandkids in other religions or eschewing religion altogether.
Who wouldn’t vote for Santa! I mean jolly, magical powers, all those gifts…
wait, never mind, I misread.
Romney is like a 4th generation Mormon, at least, and from a family that has contributed much more than many others to this little experiment in democracy and freedom. The only problem I’ve ever had with Mormons was finding out when I was young that while they make very good friends, they make very bad partners in crime. I bet if we think really hard we can find lots of people more worthy of disdain and persecution. We can start with Amway distributors.
Happyfeet,
It’s not called Amway anymore, it’s Quixtar. Didn’t you know that you can get rich buying from yourself?
Maybe the Mormons should rebrand themselves as Indigenous Christians.
I understand Bush likes to let Cheney and Rove wrestle for the pitchfork while Condi videotapes it…
Apologies all around in advance, for today is Limerick Day, in remembrance of one Edward Lear (Happy Birthday, dead man!) So I’ll tell it like it is in the form of bad poetry:
There was a fine man from the Northeas’
Whose opinions were varied, in the leas’
He would flip and then flop
Polls weren’t high enough to drop
But what really killed him was his skivvies
This Mormonlet really wonders what the hubbub about our theogony is about. Certainly it does not meet the high standards of the Christian-Gnostics (actually, they’d say we worship the Demiurge knowingly, come to think of it) in having a formless, uncreated creator God, but really, we still agree with Christianity on 90% of their doctrinal points–we’ve just thrown out the Nicean Creed and all that came with it wholesale, in favor of modern revelation on how the heavens are organized. Granted, if you are of the stripe that believes there’s no longer such a thing as prophets or revelation in the latter day, that does look pretty crazy–but I can say it has to be one of the most benign forms of mass insanity on the record to date.
And, heck, as people can attest, we’re not particularly pushy about it and have yet to blow up, stone, or mutilate anyone in order to bring about the Mormon Dominion Over the Earth, so what’s to worry about?
– Burgeoning Islamofacists somewhere behind me, post-modern progressive nutcases to the left of me, weekend warrior Christianic zealots to the right of me – whats a few Mormons here and there added to the mix. “Deversity” is self-limiting. The more smeared the public scene, the less chance of anything important happening. The only thing for sure is death, taxes, sunrise, sunset, and every possible human emterprise ends in chaos. Perfect says I.
The unvarnished truth: an attack on Mitt by Al Sharpton is like a gift from heaven. A lowlife like the Reverend Al can only hurt a liberal like Imus. An attack by this two-bit race hustler on Romney makes the GOP base wonder what he is doing right.