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All of this to say, let's stop talking about Romney's religion. The fact that it offends our sense of reason and common sense does nothing to distinguish it from the ludicrous superstitions professed by his colleagues in this endeavor to be president. There are a myriad of reasons to oppose Romney-the fact that he is a corporate robot who will say anything to win election to prominent offices he can then use to make money for private interests, too slick by half, for example-we needn't drag his faith into the matter. The obsession over it all is not only symptomatic of our personality cult system of post-democratic politics in this country; it is symptomatic of our recently acquired obsession with religion in the public sphere. Both are immense threats to human freedom, almost as bad as insisting that our head of state profess belief in a particularly notable imaginary friend.
(Andrew Dobbs, 11/14/07)
Nevertheless, BOR is a progressive establishment blog and expresses a widely held view, I sense. Like Michel Malkin, my defense would be that just because Atrios didn't write it doesn't mean he isn't actually thinking it!
Mr. Dobbs uses the word "obsession" twice, which is a word best left to subjects like salted meats and pie. This passage is another example of why progressives get stomped by republicans, especially since said menace aren't going to keep religion out of the campaign just to alleviate "immense threats to human freedom."
You are a great American, sir,
LDToday from Jesus' General:
Mitt Wept
I really don't like to do these posts--they aren't what this blog is about--but like Mitt, I think it's important to understand Romney as a person of faith, particularly since his faith is bound to affect his presidential decision making. As a former Mormon from a very pious "old Mormon" family and a former "Seminary Bowl" (like college bowl) champion, I think I understand Mitt's beliefs better than most of you. I certainly understand them better than the media and every blogger I've read.
I feel like I must comment on Mitt's confession that he wept when he heard that Blacks had finally been given the priesthood, an honor that had been given to every 12 year old white boy since the Church came into being. I'm sure Mitt hopes that we'll all believe he cried because he was happy that an injustice had been righted, and I think many people will be fooled. But the truth is Mitt, as a true believer, would not have thought it was an injustice.
I knew a lot of Mormons who wept with joy when they learned of the revelation. I saw them tearfully bearing their testimonies at the first Fast and Testimony Meeting after that. They did so, not because an injustice had been righted, but because a prophecy was being fulfilled. Mormon doctrine held that in the last days, God would lift the curse He levied against Blacks for being indecisive in the heavenly war between Jesus and Lucifer and allow them to hold the priesthood.
I am certain that Mitt cried, if indeed he did cry, for the same reason. As a true believer, he would not, could not, believe that the denial of the priesthood to Blacks had been wrong up unto that point. To do so would have meant questioning God, because the ban was scriptural in origin. It's found in The Pearl of Great Price (Abr. 1 21-27), one of the four "standard works" of Mormonism (The others being The Book of Mormon, The Doctrine and Covenants, and The Bible.)
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posted by Gen. JC Christian, Patriot | 12:33 AM
On behalf of the People, thank you General.
posted by liquiddaddy @ 7:20 AM
1 Comments:
Ervil LeBaron’s minions were murdering “apostates” in Houston as late as 1988, one of them an eight year old girl who witnessed her father’s murder. We bought a washing machine from one of the Chenoweths at the shop where he was killed.
While we’re on the subject of cults, I would like to suggest that we treat Romney like we should have treated another so called leader, David Koresh, by calling him by his given name. I can’t believe he could have caused so much trouble if he’d continued to be known as Vernon Howell. Now everybody: Willard Romney, Willard Romney, Willard Romney. Enough of this and maybe he’ll take his slick pandering down the road.
I’ve always found it interesting that the Church of LDS originated in Western New York, just like me. Since the nineteenth century, the area has been home to the Chautauqua movement, various utopian communes, and so many revival movements that it was known as the “burnt-over region.” Texas doesn’t have a monopoly on religious nuts.
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