Mitt Romney appears to have given his "religion" speech already.
Suddenly, those who decided to use "push polls" in Iowa to attack his Mormon faith are seeing him take the moral high ground, calling such tactics "un-American," especially as we prepare for Thanksgiving. If this story has legs, which it might, it will give him opportunity after opportunity in the next week to repeat the mantra - in America it is wrong to discriminate against people because of their faith. It is a quintessentially American message.
It is also a message perfect for the evangelical community. Evangelicals feel oppressed by politics, the media, and the culture. Now Romney can say he feels their pain; he knows what it means to be the victim of religious bigotry. This situation gives him a priceless opportunity to turn one of his biggest potential liabilities - his faith - into an asset.
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Anti-Christian views SHOULD BE reated to negatively by Christians. Mormons are not Christians the way the Apostles and every other Christian up to the revelations of Joseph Smith were. Christians of today, have opposed Mormonism in a most civil and scholarly way. Since Walter Martin's book: Kingdom of the Cults laid out the incompatibility and the non-Christian and anti-Christian doctrines and teachings of Mormonism, Christians have shown that the facts are indeed a great tool in dealing with those that would alter, deny and discard Christian truth. No anger need be present to dispaly the inappropriareness of Mormonism. Mormon's in the 1800's have been victim's of harrassment and violence by throngs of people that drove them out of the communities that Joseph Smith condemned as apostate. Smith was not a nice guy. It should never be forgotten, that Joseph Smith THE "Prohpet" of Mormon theology, threw the first theological punch to the souls of Christians by declaring every denomination up until his revelation in a forrest, as not being anything to Christ Jesus. Along with Smith's many anti-Christian actions and beliefs, Smith did not die a martyr's death. He was murdered, yes. But he died shooting back at the vigilante's coming to kill him. Christian Martyr's don't fight back at their attackers. Christian theologians like martin, have laid out the case against Smith and Mormonism in complete and utter theological perfection to show that what Smith and his Latter Day Saints teach, follow and are believing has NOTHING to do with the Christian faith developed by Jesus and the Apostles. Romney is a Mormon and history has proven that Mormons and LDS theology is antithetical to the historic Christian Church. Jesis is not Satan's brother as Mormons believe. Jesus is not just one of many God's like Mormons believe. And Romney is not an eteranl deity like he and every Mormon believes they are.
Geez David, I wonder why: " Evangelicals feel oppressed by politics, the media, and the culture."
Let's see what Beliefnet.com has to say about that? Shall we? Well right on the main page . . .:
There is no such thing as 'Messianic Judaism'. If you convert to Christianity you are an apostate and are no longer Jewish.
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My thoughts are that this little bigoted jab posted front and center of a leading religious website is intended to foment hatred of Christians. You cannot take the DNA out of a human being (it's a scientific fact) for what they believe. It is all about freedom of choice. But I guess not for Christians huh?
ALL of the first followers of Jesus were Messianic Jews. Another inconvenient truth. "Judaism" is where messianic teachings come from.
But since Paul turned Jesus' movement into a clone of Mithraism their has been precious little that is Jewish in Christianity.
I must say, this is the first time I've EVER seen him show genuine passion and emotion and break his technocratic "Ken Doll" face.
I suspect its too late to have a conversation about this video, but I finally had a chance to watch the video. After agreeing with him about religious diversity and freedom, something struck me about his discussion of McCain-Feingold. He builds a case for further regulation (of 527s) to make them comply with the same laws that PACs have to but then comes to the solution of repealing McCain-Feingold to deregulate it all. It reminds me of his answer on comprehensive immigration reform. He talked about the need to open a pathway for legalization and then said he was against it.
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