Posted by
PaulDerengowski on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 5:48:58 PM
Ever since December 6, 2007, when Mitt Romney got up before a hand-picked crowd in College Station, Texas to deliver his buffalo American speech, I simply stand amazed as just how secularly-minded, if not blinded, Americans have become in what truly matters in shaping a person's relationship with other people. One political pundit after another has lauded the wonders of Mitt Romney's speech, with nearly all of them coming to the conclusion that theology just does not matter when it comes to his presidential candidacy. How could such well-intentioned individuals such as Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, Rush Limbaugh, James Dobson,
et al, be so blind? I think the answer is very simple. Americans have been gradually conditioned to quit thinking theologically, and have instead substituted what was at one time the "queen of the sciences" for a more rationalistic, secular and political approach to decision-making. Humans have concluded through their theological stupor that it doesn't matter what one believes about God (or doesn't believe), so long as the next guy seems as rational as the one making the judgment about him. In other words, humans have forgotten God and set themselves up in His place as the final arbiters of truth and reality, and God has become a warm fuzzy to be manipulated, instead of consulted.
Theology does matter, ladies and gentlemen. Otherwise, please tell me why you would not want to put say, a Jim Jones, David Koresh, or Charlie Manson-type person in the Whitehouse? You may be saying, "That's absurd! Mitt Romney is no Jones, Koresh, or Manson." No, but his theological beliefs are as eccentric and irrational as anything any one of them dreamed up. Jones thought he was a messiah, and his followers called him "Father." Romney thinks he is a "savior" (of the dead no less), and believes he is going to be a "Father" to millions of spirit-children on another planet some day, as he sires them with his harem of polygamously married wives. Koresh thought he was a prophet, and had the surname of God. Romney believes the Gordon B. Hinckley (the current Mormon president) is a prophet, and that Romney is going to be a god one day. Manson believes that he is both Jesus and Satan, while Romney believes that Jesus and Satan are brothers. Yet, as long as Romney can stand before you and make great swelling speeches, that completely avoid the real questions surrounding that which forms his decision-making, namely his theology, then all of the sudden he's finer than hair on a Mormon cricket.
America, you need to wake up and start thinking theologically again. You need to get back to your biblical roots and quit letting the secularly minded media, conservative and otherwise, do your decision-making for you. God has a revelation that you've been ignoring for too long now, it has cost you in the past, and it is going to cost you even more in the future if you persist in your ignorance. Politics is not the answer, especially when the political pundits are so theologically ignorant and embarrassed that they have relegated God to the back burners of their thinking at best, or totally eliminated Him from the conversation altogether. And when the political pundits laud someone like a Mitt Romney, whose theology is so backward and irrational that it would prevent you from voting for someone with an equally backward and irrational theology (Jones, Koresh, Manson,
et al), then it's time to re-evaluate just what it is that the pundits are saying. They might mean well, but is their endorsement necessarily advocating that which is well? Not when it comes to endorsing what amounts to a cult leader.
For more on just far astray Romney's speech was, see my article
Mitt Romney's Sleight of Hand Speech in College Station, TexasTill next time, think theologically and do what is right.