I mean it wasn't the Mormons who started the Inquisition, ran the Crusades, burnt witches or operate the Ku Klux Klan (yeah, I'm looking at you Mike Huckabee,) nor were they involved in the Holocaust, the 30 Years War or a thousand other atrocities committed by Protestants and Catholics in Europe over the centuries.
In fact, it may be that Mormonism is one of the only decent forms of Christianity that has ever existed. Maybe you ought to be adopting whatever it is about them that keeps them from regularly getting involved in the hateful garbage that bogs down so much of the rest of Christianity.
Nobody's religion gets to be immune from scrutiny and criticism. NOBODY'S. If Huckabee thinks he can attack Romney without having to play defense, he better think again ... or does he think he walks on water?
2007-12-12 06:56:32 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He just knows Fox News has his back.
2007-12-12 06:59:29 · answer #1 · answered by 2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think religion shouldn't even be in the equation for candidates for public office. Used to eb a time, when religion was a private matter in this country.
Founding Fathers laid it down, there shall be no religious test for public office. Just because Romney felt obliged to come and speak on his faith, doesn't mean others shoudl be scrutinized. The truth of the matter is that most candidates give religion lip service.
It will be a proud day for all Americans when an athiest can run for President, without having to pretend he or she actually follows some religion.
2007-12-12 07:23:48 · answer #2 · answered by BROOOOOKLYN 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well since the Mormons have only been around since 1830 or there abouts...not quite 200 years....why don't you examine all the other religions when they were 180 years old...I think yo have a head start on the mayhem issue with the 140 at Mountain valley massacre. The Crusades weren't around until almost 700 years after the catholic church was established..(not that I'm defending the catholics) but don't think the LDS has no blood on there hands...they do...
2007-12-12 07:09:13 · answer #3 · answered by bigislandbatman 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there replaced right into a Mormon conflict in the 1800s. yet does that consider Romney? No. i do no longer care what faith he's in the long-term. I do care, although, what he stands for and what he plans on doing for the period of Presidency, no longer what he is going to be doing on Sundays or Saturdays sitting in a pew. If anybody left his Mormonism on my own, this would not be a brilliant deal. even though it replaced into suggested, he will safeguard it, and because he's protecting it many think of he's fanatical approximately it. enable it flow. pay interest extra to what he stands for extremely of what he worships.
2016-10-11 03:43:40 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow! I appreciate your perspective on this issue. You are, of course, quite right. If we are worried about how a President will rely on spiritual beliefs to make national decisions, then we ought to examine every candidate, not just one. Many attrocities have been committed in the name of religion. From my perspective, that is not the practice of religion but the abuse of it. True believers would not be involved with violent attrocities, intolerance, bigotry, persecutions and hatred. Those are decidedly ungodly behaviors to be avoided. Rather, godly people would be practicing communication skills, tolerance, understanding and mutual efforts that benefit society as a whole.
Latter-day Saints have always tried to emphasize the positive things of mortality, not the negatives. There have been a few renegades that have blemished an otherwise good record, but by and large, we practice Christianity as we understand it, to include loving our neighbors as ourselves.
2007-12-12 07:12:22 · answer #5 · answered by rac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our country is at war now and we need a true leader to guide us through the perilous times ahead. Mitt Romney is exactly the kind of person we need to run this country. Before any of us were born, we all lived together in Heaven with Heavenly Father. Some of us rebelled and started a war with those who were faithful . This event was called "The War in Heaven". Eventually the bad guys lost and became demons . the good guys won and were born with white skin here on Earth. Those who did not fight very hard or were indifferent were born on Earth with dark skin. The bravest of the brave leaders of the Lords Army were born here on Earth with White skin to good Mormon families.
During the war, Romney must have been one of the top Commanding Generals. Just look at his awe inspiring persona and strong Mormon family. Amerika needs General Romney to help us win the war on terror and bring Salvation to the world. Vote Romney in '08.
For more info , see your nearest Mormon.
2007-12-15 04:29:27 · answer #6 · answered by sean h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's an excellent point. He really is getting hard hit for being a Mormon. (I'm with you on Huckabee - that last name just has Klan written all over it, doesn't it! LOL - not really, but it does sound backwoods scary!)
I am not a Mormon, just a regular Christian, but I don't have any big issue with Romney, and in fact, think he really spoke some big truth in his speech the other day/last week about faith and being tolerant of differing faith beliefs.
2007-12-12 07:02:33 · answer #7 · answered by Marvelissa VT 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Romney is the only one who made his religion an issue, by:
claiming he had "religious values" (and thus suggesting that others didn't)
and claiming to be a Christian (when he is not.)
He, therefore, has to SUPPORT HIS CLAIMS by proving WHAT his religious values are; by detailing his doctrinal beliefs AND by proving HOW he is a Christian while being a member of a faith that teaches totally opposite from Christianity on so many things.
If Romney had not mentioned his religion, no one else would have mentioned it either.
Since Romney opened the door on this issue, others are free to walk in and debate him on it.
There is no "rest of Christianity", as Mormonism is NOT Christian. Mormons are not decent. They began with kidnap, rape, murder, and fraud, and have not improved much since. Huckabee discusses his religious beliefs, and is not cowardly enough to dodge questions on the topic...the way Romney is.
Romney tried to win votes, and donations, from Christian conservatives, by pretending to be one of them. Unfortunately, the Christians he tried to con knew enough about Mormonism to know that it is a non-Christian cult.
Romney has only himself to blame for his current predicament. HE chose his religion. HE claimed to have "religious values". HE claimed to be a Christian. HE must now take the heat that his choices and claims have generated.
2007-12-12 07:13:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, everyone's should be if anyone's is going to be. Too bad. Mormonism, though, simply hasn't been around long enough to gain that kind of reputation. They have a very violent past during the time they were setting up shop in Utah, but mostly it was against each other as power struggles took place within the faith (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle even dedicated a Sherlock Holmes story to it). So, they are, relatively speaking, about the "fairest of them all"...
2007-12-12 07:11:12 · answer #9 · answered by Night Owl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if he were to question the christian religion and history then the large percatage of chritisans in this conutry would just come to the conclusion that mormons are hateful and intolerant.Its funny how that works christians can question any other religion and its okay but if another religion questions christians then its an act of war.
People are fun
2007-12-12 07:02:45 · answer #10 · answered by upside 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
By the time Fox news gets done and the religious right you will be made to think he walks on water.
When in fact a vote for him is a vote for Bush they are so much alike and it worked for Bush he thinks it will work for him.
2007-12-12 07:06:12 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋