I actually like Mitt Romney very much. I admire his record. He is an impressive man.
But his appearance this morning on the Today show was pathetic. He tried to play vicitm of religious discrimination:
"But I think attacking someone's religion is really going too far. It's just not the American way, and I think people will reject that," Romney told NBC's "Today" show.
I'm sorry but I am really confused about all of this. Since when is asking a question about someone's religion attacking it?? This is bizarre.
There are a thousand ways to attack someone's religion - but asking questions about it is not one of them. If it were then every single person who asks questions about Christianity would be a religious bigot. Romney seems to have forgotten a speech he gave last week lauding American's religious pluralism... maybe he needs to be reminded that that pluralism doesn't just apply to him.
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But that was a planted question of the "Have you stopped beating your wife?" sort.
Still waiting for your larger response ... you certainly know the impression you've left me, without that context.
Isn't David Kuo the author of the piece that claims that idol worship needs to be instituted into main-stream Christianity? Just wondering.
Question for Mike Huckabee: "Besides physics, chemistry and biology, are there any other scientific fields you might to abandon without comment if they inconvenienced your preferred and admittedly, minority interpretation of the Bible?"
I can't say for certain, of course, but it is hard for me to take Huckabee's protests that he doesn't know very much about Mormon theology at face value. There are all sorts of books on what evangelicals consider to be cults (e.g. Kingdom of the Cults, by Walter Martin, first published in 1965 and now in its fifth edition, is, perhaps, the standard resource, but there are countless others as well). These books point to the fact that, for many evangelicals and fundamentalists, knowing what "cults" (like LDS)that are aggressively recruiting folks to competing and, in their view, heretical, beliefs about Jesus believe, is extremely important. It is all part of understanding the competition in this life and death battle for souls.
For that reason, I find it hard to believe that a former Southern Baptist preacher such as Huckabee is as ignorant about one of the fastest-growing, slickest, and most effective competing versions of Christianity going, as he professes to be.
Physics, chemistry and biology? Come on. There is a small minority of scientists, who have studied geology, biology, genetics, anthropology, paleontology, who don't accept goo-to-you by the zoo 'evolution.' Natural selection is not the same as evolution. Do some research, look at answersingenesis.org or creationontheweb. There are PhD scientists that don't believe that australopithecines are in our ancestry in any way. Just because a majority of scientists believes something doesn't make it true. Now, only about 13% of American adults accept evolution as officially taught. So if you are part of that 13%, don't assume that everybody believes the unprovable, ever-changing, impossible to confirm stories of evolution.
And its not a minority understanding of the Bible, Christians have always believed that Genesis was a true account, and you'll find Christians around the world believe that Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead, is powerful enough to create the universe, just like He told us He did.
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