can a Mormon be a good president?

Question

can anyone with religious beliefs be trusted to run a country?

Answer 1

Actually, those are two different questions.

GW Bush claims to have religious beliefs, and he’s pretty much set the U.S. back a few decades that will make it very difficult to recover for at least a generation. However, he also claims to be an evangelical Christian, and if you know anything about them, you know that their belief begins and ends with a onetime prayer of accepting Christ into their hearts in a single confession of Christ, followed afterward by weekly glorying in having already been saved while they lapse into epileptic fits on the floor rather than exercising actual faith in following Christ.

I would much rather have a Mormon president than any other, as I know that he would be striving to follow the Savior Jesus Christ in every decision that he makes, regardless of his political views.

According to the MSNBC online presidential candidate-matching poll, my matches are across the political spectrum—owing partly to being Canadian and thus valuing my inexpensive anytime anywhere health care and freedom from the violence of a gun-loving culture or prejudice against immigrants in my multicultural country—and McCain most closely matches my political ideals. However, if I were American, I would vote for Romney, as I’d feel assured that he would follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost in making political decisions based on a solid understanding of the Restored Gospel.

After all, presidents and prime ministers around the world don’t seem to follow their political platform after being voted into office and being faced with practical issues that require pragmatic solutions. Therefore, I care less about the platform on which they run the elections and more about the quality of their character from which they'll be making their decisions, and I feel certain that a Mormon like Romney, having been a bishop and stake president, would seek the right answer more than any president who has been alive until now. Americans seem to forget that Reagan ran up the biggest deficit or debt in American history due to excesses in spending on the military while claiming to be a small government fiscal conservative.

Answer 2

even with the reality i don't think contained in the Latter Day Saint Church i'd do not have any issue with a Mormon president. I advise, a lot of people were nervous of John Fitzgerald Kennedy operating for president back contained in the 1960's because he became a Roman Catholic and were worried he will be taking his orders from the Pope fairly of the U. S. structure. At this aspect, see you later because the hot president is sensible and can want to do his pastime accurate, is the component I care about the most.

Answer 3

You're saying that only an agnostic could be a good president.

Atheism is a religious belief.

I don't care where they spend a few hours on Sunday, I want to know how they're going to run the country.

Answer 4

Yes.
Yes.

No one should be elected (or not elected) based on the fact that they practice a particular religion or none at all. I do believe, however, that the way someone practices their religion can tell us something about that candidate's values.

For example, the fact that someone truly strives to live the tenets of their religion is a positive thing for me. It shows integrity, honesty, dedication, etc. If someone has the courage to do what they believe is right, in our immoral society, then perhaps that courage will help them in the White House. Conversely, if someone is incapable of following through with what they believe to be devine and true, it also could be an indicator of how they will conduct their presidency.

That said, I will not vote for Romney because I think he lives his religion better than some of the other candidates, but it is a small positive mark in his favor. When it comes down to it, it will be about polical beliefs, prior voting records, and who I think will really do the best job of leading this country.

Answer 5

can anyone with religious beliefs be trusted to run a country?
Yes, we may agree or not with his/her beliefs, but the matter is if we agree or not with his/her visions of what has to be done in the country, how fix the economy, what to do with health care problems, education, infrastructure, security, justice system, taxes, international affairs, inmigration, etc.

Separation of religion and state? Good, then which religion or lack of religion a candidate has must not be reason to vote in favor or against him/her.

Should the current mormon candidate be the next president? I think we got better candidates.

Answer 6

"can anyone with religious beliefs be trusted to run a country?"

Given that our country has made it through a few hundred years now I would say yes.

Maybe use Great Britian for a better example... it has made it a little over 1000 years being run by people who hold religious beliefs.

Answer 7

In the USA, we've never had a president without religious beliefs. The Bush/Gore election was such mass confusion with bad voting machines and the Bush election was a shock to the nation. But then I remembered that in the Bible God said, that He sets up the rulers and He takes them down. Man can try to rig an election, but God knows how to rig man.
No man competes against God.

When Israel was disobedient to God, then God turned Israel over to their enemies and let their enemies defeat them. As America continually gets further and further away from the Lord, I remind you of Israel's enemies that God let destroy them. Do not follow the path of Israel! A nation without God does not survive.

Answer 8

That is a stupid question. It's like asking, "can a person with brown hair be trusted?" The persons religion or hair color has nothing to do with being president.

Answer 9

As with a president of any religion, only if he puts the country first and his religion second.

Answer 10

Yes, religious beliefs, in fact are better than no religious beliefs, because they give the person a philosophy and course of action to follow by. Someone who is utterly lost like an agnostic, might be more easily swayed by new, often erroneuos ways.