Well, this last week Mitt Romney finally conceded defeat in his bid to win the Republican nomination to become President of the United States. Too bad, so sad. It is a repeated occurrence that has happened within the Mormon ranks, going all the way back to the days when the founder of Mormonism, "Prophet," "General," and "King" Joseph Smith made his bid to become President as well. Of course, Mitt Romney's father, George Romney, got a taste of bitter defeat back in the 1960s.

What is less surprising, though, than Romney conceding defeat is all the whining that has taken place among the Mormons, who just cannot seem to fathom why so many Christians would not accept Romney as a viable candidate, but Mormonism as another brand of Christianity. Take for example a recent article published online by Signs of San Diego. It reflects one pouting statement after another demonstrating the absolute incredulity by several Mormons over the Christians rejection Romney, followed by one specious accusation after another, vilifying Christians for being less-than-accepting of what Mormonism has to offer by way of its "Christian" beliefs.

The article starts out with Richard Bushman—a retired Mormon historian at Columbia University—stating concerning Romney's defeat, "It is prejudice…Underlying all these questions is that these beliefs are basically crazy so you've got to explain them to us." Sorry, Mr. Bushman, but it cannot be prejudice, given that the Mormon Church has provided reams and reams and reams of material that the critics of the Mormon Church have read, analyzed and then called into question for Mormons to answer. Yet, the Mormons have continually failed to account for the multiple contradictions in doctrine, inconsistencies with history, and conflicts with the Christian religion that have led many to intelligently conclude that Mormonism is "crazy." Moreover, when you fail to rationally explain all the lies, distortions, and cover-ups, while accusing people of prejudice, who know about them, that only makes a person look intellectually dishonest, deceitful, and devilish. And who really wants to be a part of a religious system with a pedigree like that?

Next, church spokesperson, Michael Otterman adds, "I'm not questioning the policy of neutrality. That's not in any doubt…But I think the very reality is that we've had to be very careful about choosing our words and not appearing to either be supporting or not supporting a particular candidate." Really? Mr. Otterman, there is a big difference between choosing your words to protect your 501(c)3 status, and simply being open, honest, and straightforward in your responses to those asking about your church which have nothing to do with politics. And given that neither Romney, nor the Mormon Church, has ever felt compelled to be open, honest, or straightforward in explaining, with any amount of depth, just what it is that Mormonism teaches, then it should come as no big surprise that people would be suspicious of just what elixir that you want them to swallow. Now, that's not to say that some people are not going to be absolutely gullible, and swallow hook, line, and sinker whatever it is that just about anybody tells them. Even P. T. Barnum noted that there is a sucker born every minute. But, for the rest of us inquiring folk, when you want to hide the ball, so to speak, concerning the many eccentric beliefs that you believe are true and representative of the Christian faith, then please excuse us if we are suspect of just who and what you really are.

Next L.A. attorney Lowell C. Brown was quoting as saying, "I was surprised at the level of intensity and sometimes flat out animosity…I had no idea. I'm in my 50s, I've been a Mormon all my life, I've lived in L.A. for 25 years, and it floored me.” Surprised? Why? It's almost as if the Lowell Brown-type of Mormon believes that the Mormon Church has been so effective in its brainwashing effort to dupe the public, that he just can't believe that there are any thoughtful people left out there that should view the Mormon Church as anything other than a cult. Well, Mr. Brown, we're surprised at your arrogance, because there are more and more Christians that are informed about Mormonism, through media such as the Internet, and we'll be surprised if the Mormon Church is still in existence, in its current form, in the next 20 years. After all, within just the past 10 or so years, Utah Mormons have taken great strides to distance themselves further and further from its past than at any time during the previous 165 years. So, who's to say that within the next 20 years the Mormon Church will all but have forgotten Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, except as icons of a man-made religion that God used to eventually bring untold millions into a real relationship with Him by overthrowing it.

Then Brown went on to say, in response to the Mike Huckabee question of whether or not Mormons, such as Mitt Romney, believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers, "If you're making a decision about whether or not to vote for someone because of their religion, you're flirting with bigotry." No, Mr. Brown, we're not. We're exposing an outrageous lie for what it is in light of the truth. Jesus and Satan are not brothers, and it is beneath contempt how the Mormons have gone out of their way to mitigate such a blasphemous doctrine. If you're so ashamed of such a belief, then maybe you ought to reconsider just why you are what you are. And if you're not ashamed, you ought to be, given that such blasphemy places God on the same level as Satan! Lastly, though, it is that kind of outrageous belief which is indicative of a worldview that does not need to be influencing the person sitting in a the place of President of the United States. Otherwise, why not just open up Charlie Manson's cell, set him free, and make him President? After all, he only believes that he is both Jesus and Satan.

Then there's Richard Mouw, from Fuller Seminary. One wonders why he just doesn't give up his post, and go join the Mormon Church, given his disdain towards those exposing it for the fraud that it is. He says in the article, "What's going on when his son [speaking of George and Mitt Romney] runs and all of a sudden there's this overt hostility that came out, which did not come out toward his father…I'm kind of ashamed of the way that a lot of traditional Christians have handled this." Maybe the reason why you're so ashamed, Mr. Mouw, is because you have so departed from the truth of Christianity that you're willing to substitute the truth for a lie, and hence Mormonism for Christianity. Maybe if you would start looking at Mormonism from a biblical perspective, instead of through your rose-colored, postmodern glasses, then you would see why Christians get just a little antsy everytime one of your friends in Salt Lake City gets on TV or radio and starts peddling their non-sense as true, while duping some who have no clue, beyond their existential experience, otherwise. The fact of the matter is, you, Mr. Mouw, have been a point of disgust among Christians and former Mormons ever since you got up in the Mormon Tabernacle and tried to shame them to cease doing what they've been commissioned by God to do, and that is defend the faith and tell the truth in light of the onslaught perpetrated by the Mormon Church. So, whether or not your ashamed or not is immaterial, given that it is a shame that you keep defending the indefensible, namely, the Mormon Church, in the manner that you have.

Lastly, what would an article be without quoting the most vocal and recognized of the Mormon apologists, Dr. Robert Millet of BYU. According to him, "Gov. Romney has, perhaps without intending to do so, rendered the church a service…It's served as a kind of wakeup call for Saints themselves to the fact that we're not as well understood as we think we are. How can it be the case that Gov. Romney and his feelings about Christ and his feelings about religion have been so little understood?" Oh, Dr. Millet, you underestimate those who know you quite well, as well as the medium that has been created that enables Christians to get the message out about the Romneys, Millets, and Mormonism in general. Now, granted, many people don't know what they ought to about Mormonism, but just imagine if they did, and they acted on it. Why, aside from the stagnated growth we are currently seeing in the Mormon Church in the United States, we just might see the Mormon Church finally go the way of the Worldwide Church of God a few years ago, and then become a Christian institution. So, don't short-change us, Mr. Millet. Many of us know you and your religion like the backs of our hands, with the rest knowing enough to stay away from you. And for that all I can say is "Thank God!" Thank God that Romney is done. Thank God that there is a remnant of Christians willing to continue to challenge the false beliefs of religions like Mormonism. And thank God that there is a growing medium available to get the word out, like there has not been in all of human history, where the whiners can be exposed for their faulty sentiments and incredulity.

I was digging through a bunch of papers that I needed to file away today, when I came across an email that was sent to me by a friend quite some time ago.  The subject line was entitled: The Obituary of An Old Friend.  The Old Friend in this case was common sense.  But, the more I thought about it, and the more I see Christians being infected by postmodern and relativistic thinking, the more it seemed to me that not only has common sense died among so many people, so has biblical sense.  By that I mean, whereas at one time most people had a pretty good grasp on biblical principles, and then attempted to pattern their conduct as God would have them live, now truth and living is a matter of capriciousness.  Truth is what one makes it to be, rather than what it is.

Hence, I would like to offer the content of that email here and substitute the world biblical for common, along with a few other adjustments to fit the context, and express my condolences to the loss of an "Old Friend," with the express hope that maybe someday in God's own grace and time, He will resurrect it in the lives of so many Christians who have essentially abandoned it.

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Mr. Biblical Sense.  Mr. Sense had been with us for many years.  No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in religious relativism.  He will be remembered as having cultivated such value lessons as knowing when to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, why God will not  be mocked without severe repercussions, and that if a man does not work he should not eat.

Biblical Sense lived by simple, sound financial principles (don't spend more than you earn); and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not kids, are in charge).

His health began to rapidly deteriorate when liberal thinking scholars and philosophers began to question his authority, and even his existence.  Reports that his author did not really author it in the first place led to more and more people writing their own chapters, none of which we related.  Jesus was reduced to a mere human, since to imagine him as a miracle worker did not jive with the philosophical intelligentsia and their "enlightened" discoveries.  Hence, now we have lawyers settling no-fault divorces between adulterous husbands and wives, a government that is fiscally out of control, and children acting on all the madness through abject rebellion and nihilism, with many of them committing suicide before they ever hit the age of 20.

Mr. Sense declined even further when the educational system starting "educating" without any real focus on why education was important to begin with.  God, who is the absolute source of knowledge of our existence, was expelled in the 1960's, and now with humanistic religion leading the way, Mr. Sense was no longer needed.  Yet, since Mr. Sense was expelled, the educational system has devolved from attempting to understand ourselves and our place in the universe as God's creatures to a careless romp through a meaningless life, where children have been exposed to just about every hedonistic exercise in futility to make them think that they are gods.  They are the creators of their own destinies, and are answerable to no one, which is why more and more schools resemble the battlefields of World War II Germany, Viet Nam, or Iraq.

Mr. Biblical Sense lost the will to live when fewer and fewer Christians decided to actually pick up their Bibles and read them.  Pastors became irrelevant pontificators of the latest secular marketing schemes, rather than shepherds commissioned to go out and make disciples, and then baptize and teach them.  And church members were no better, learning from the pastors how to live gimmicky lives, rather than godly lives, whereby everyone showed up on Sunday as a matter of convenience, rather than conviction, to demonstrate how pious they were to the rest of the impious, and then live out the rest of the week as practical atheists.

Mr. Biblical Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and his wife Wisdom; his siblings, discernment, knowledge, and understanding.  His cousins, Responsibility and Ethics are on their death beds, and are not expected to live much longer.  His three, rebellious stepbrothers, Me, Myself, and I, are all doing well, as they continue to fuel the madness, and rejoice over the loss of the one that kept their idolatrous selves in check for such a long time.

Additional information concerning Mr. Biblical Sense's demise: Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.  Remnants of him can be seen gathering dust in back windows of many cars owned by those claiming to be Christians.  If you remember him, please pass along this little obituary notice; if not, join the majority and do nothing!

Since there has been so much media attention paid to the subject of Mormonism, and since so many people are clueless about the Mormon religion, without any substantive help coming from the Mormon Church, I've created a PowerPoint presentation that answers the most important question when it comes to Mormonism: Is Mormonism Christian?

The presentation can be found on my website, Apologetics Online.net. Further questions are welcome concerning the presentation, and may be sent to apologeticsonline@sbcglobal.net.

Well, it seems that the Mormon Church is not satisfied with Mitt Romney's effort to evade questions and mislead the public when it comes to its beliefs.  So, it has picked up the baton and has manufactured its own piece of deception.  The FOX News channel apparently asked someone in the Mormon Church to answer 21 questions about its beliefs, and in grand Mormon style, it dodged, weaved, and waffled its way through those questions with the skill of a BYU defense attorney.  When will the Mormons ever learn that all of these tactics are doing nothing but continuing to contribute to their steady decline in membership and influence?  Nevertheless, rather than resubmit my response here, a link in provided for your reading pleasure.

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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, Texas

Till next time, think theologically and do what is right.

         From the time when the first explorers visited America’s shorelines immigrants migrating to its land, seeking life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have been a regular occurrence.  Those managing to navigate not only the hazards of land and sea, but the judicial system as well, became legal, productive citizens of the United States and enjoyed all the freedoms that this great country has provided.  Very few have been disappointed in their effort to become an American.

            Within the past few years, though, coming to America has been viewed less and less as a privilege, as national borders have been continually breached, illegally.  Those aliens from without have taken it upon themselves, as a self-imposed right, to essentially steal from America, whether it be in the form of jobs, health care, education, or what have you.  Such lawlessness and anarchy has served to not only undermine the very things that these illegal aliens are after, but they serve to undermine the national security of the country as well. 

Unfortunately, after several years of social conditioning in most, if not all, of the secular universities in the United States, we now have in place political leaders, who have been entrusted with representing the people, that cannot, or will not, do what is right to stem the tide of illegal immigration.  Even the President of the United States, George W. Bush, is indecisive over knowing what to do.  One moment he talks a great game about national security and fighting the war in Iraq, while the next moment he seems hesitant over doing the only right and legal thing to actually protect national interests and that is to round up all of the illegal aliens and send them home, with the express warning that if they illegally return, and are arrested, even tougher penalties will be faced, including the death penalty if necessary.

Perhaps, though, the forgotten factor in the immigration discussion is the role of the Christian Church in the matter.  If it is the “pillar and ground of the truth,” then where has it been to help resolve the illegal immigration problem?  It has been where it has been for several decades now, on the back row of societal decision-making, sitting on its hands, having country club meetings on Sundays where the preacher rarely actually touches on anything in the Bible, but uses it as a springboard to ramble on about whatever tangent that might have crossed his mind the night before.  In other words, the main reason why we are seeing the United States crumble and corrode over matters of immigration and national security is the same reason we have seen the United States crumble and corrode in matters of education, justice, and domestic and international problems, and that is because the “pillar and ground of the truth,” the Church, has been reduced to a non-factor in addressing such issues.

Instead of the Church being a place where great leaders are turned out who can make immigration decisions that are legal and just, it has become a place where the aged and dying go to meet with the Postmodern Seekers, as they hypocritically carry on how much they love Jesus, while never lifting a finger in the name of truth to resolve such issues.  Clearly, if there ever was a time when the truth must be exalted and stood for, it is now.  Yet, “the pillar and ground of the truth” seems more interested in how to titillate the emotional sensitivities of the few dumb enough to be attracted to its carnival act, than it is in standing up and being noticed for the beacon of light that it is supposed to be during dark times such as these.

Therefore, the immigration problem is not just about illegal aliens crossing our borders at will, nor is it about crooked, limp-wristed politicians who have been so socially engineered that Joseph Stalin or Karl Marx would have been proud.  It is about the Church, and whether it, as the “pillar and ground of the truth,” is going to have the guts to do what it right, instead of what is expedient, as it repents of its lackadaisical, careless, and mindless approach to being an active participate in societal decision-making, or whether it will continue its decline into irrelevant obscurity, and the country it claims to love is reduced to complete ruin.

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Misleading Mormons for Mitt

 

            Well, no sooner did the most recent apologetic delivered by radio host Michael Medved hit the electronic press, which essentially told readers to forget about Mitt Romney’s theology and past, and then offered a philosophically flawed solution to determine whether or not Romney is fit to lead as President of the United States, a fairly high-profile Mormon and professor at Brigham Young University has since chimed in with his 2-cents worth.  Yet, instead of using not only a very well-known Christian media outlet that claims to be “A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction” to do it, he engaged in the same kind of misleading behavior and statements that he used when another well-known Christian media outlet inappropriately published his book about the Mormon Jesus for the Christian public to consume.  That high-profile Mormon is Dr. Robert Millet, and the magazine with waning conviction is Christianity Today.

            Since the late 1990s Dr. Millet has been, more or less, the most visible and respected of the Mormon apologists out and about campaigning for the viability and credibility of Mormon beliefs.  What Millet has consistently done, though, is to misrepresent those same Mormon beliefs to the public, and has actually taught BYU students to do the same when they are questioned about those beliefs. 

In his article, “Mitt’s Mormonism and the ‘Evangelical Vote,’ he does the very same thing, with the twist that he tries to make Christians who oppose and critique Mormonism out to be persons who are either engaging in slander, or are persons that are hyperbolizing the vast differences between Mormons and Christians, and that because of at least those two things, Mitt Romney’s Presidential candidacy is as good, if not better, than anyone else’s.

            For example, Millet states that Evangelicals are reluctant to vote for Romney because they consider the LDS Church to be a cult, and that Mormons are not Christians, equating both with nothing more than “demonizing” Mormons, as if there is nothing consistent with either position in the truth.  What Millet is doing, though, is what all those involved in the cults do and that is to steal and redefine terms to suit their means, resulting in less negative publicity that accurately and succinctly defines just exactly what they are.  Mormonism is a “cult” of Christianity, meaning that its doctrines run counter to biblical belief, and yet it wishes to be considered mainstream biblical Christianity.   Furthermore, if anyone is a Christian, and is member of the Mormon Church, from a biblical point of view, that person is a Christian in spite of what Mormonism teaches, and not because of it.

            Millet then turns up the deception by insinuating that Christians are slandering Mormons and Mormonism by accusing them of all kinds of things that supposedly the Mormons have not done, nor do not believe.  He says, “Evangelicals accuse Mormons of adding new revelation (the Book of Mormon) to the Bible.”  That’s not an accusation.  That’s a fact. 

Then he says, “They think Mormons teach that humans are saved by good works rather than by Jesus Christ.”  This is doubletalk to those who know the Mormon system of salvation, and that it is predicated on two levels (General and Individual), with the person adhering to the system only being “truly” saved on the latter level.  He continues, “…and that humans are of the same species as Jesus and can someday attain his status.”  Again, this more doubletalk, because Mormons not only believe that they are of the same species as Jesus, they believe that as “gods in embryo” they are of the same species as God himself!  In fact, in Dr. Millet’s most recent book, A Different Jesus?, which was published by Eerdmans, he stated that, “We teach that man is not of a lower order or different species than God.” 

Lastly, Millet adds, “…evangelicals say, Mormons reject key Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and creation ex nihilo (God creating the world out of nothing.”  It’s not that evangelicals are saying this; as if it is something they made up to make Mormons look more aberrant than they are.  It’s that it is exactly what Mormons have taught for the past 175 years.  Mormons advocate a Tritheistic view of God, which is tantamount to polytheism, or that there are multiple gods and goddesses that exist in the universe, with each Mormon male under the false pretense that if he does all that is required of him by the Mormon Church, he can join the ranks of the gods.  And as for creation ex nihilo, Mormonism teaches that all things in existence are eternal, and that God could not have created anything.  Mormon educator Lowell Bennion once wrote,

Latter-day Saints reject the ex nihilo theory of creation. Intelligence and the elements have always existed, co-eternal with God.  He is tremendously creative and powerful, but he works with materials not of his own making.  This Mormon theory of creation leads to very significant conclusions regarding both our view of God and of human beings.

            To add insult to injury, Millet goes on to say, “Mormon beliefs are not as un-evangelical as most evangelicals think.  This would only be true if Millet was speaking of the average Christian who is not aware of what Mormonism truly teaches about any of the fundamental doctrines that make Christianity what it is.  Otherwise, to those who are knowledgeable about both what the Bible teaches and what Mormonism teaches in contrast, it is absolute lie.  There is nothing evangelical, in the remotest sense of the word, about Mormonism.  It is an aberration.  It is a caricature.  It is a cult of Christianity that ought to be avoided like the plague.

            Clearly, Millet has engaged in deception by misrepresenting not only his views of Mormonism, but also by engaging in the very thing he is asserting that Christians are doing, and that is engaging in libel and slander.  And yet, he is doing it in the name of Mitt Romney running for President.  It is this kind of maneuvering that contemporary Mormons are famous for, for those who know them.  It is also this kind of maneuvering that will cost the country its life, should it continue to aid and abet it, by placing a President in the Whitehouse who will use similar tactics as those recently displayed by one of Mormonism’s more outspoken apologists, Dr. Robert Millet.

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After reading the commentaries of both Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved concerning the Presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney, I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a serious disconnect between biblical truth and reality among many conservative commentators, especially when it comes to religious beliefs.  Both of these gentlemen have come to the defense of Mitt Romney, who is an avowed Mormon, asserting in one way or another that his aberrant religious beliefs, ultimately about truth, do not matter when discussing Presidential leadership in the Whitehouse.  Yet, their reasoning is so flawed with ignorance, equivocation, and pragmatic opining that it makes one wonder what happened along the way that caused them to jump the tracks of rationality.

            For instance, Hugh Hewitt—in an earlier blog of his—wrote an article which carries the same title as a book he is currently peddling, equivocates Romney’s perversion of Christianity—which he refuses to discuss, and is a Mormon tactic borrowed straight out of Freemasonry, by the way—with Barack Obama’s race and Hillary Clinton’s gender.  Hewitt accuses the critics of Romney with “religious bigotry,” assuming that religious heresy is of the same nature as a person’s skin color or gender.  The fallacy of equivocation is obvious, given that Obama’s race and Clinton’s gender are inherently what they are as human beings, as opposed to Romney’s beliefs, which are the product of mental ascent.  In other words, Romney’s beliefs have nothing to do with what he is as a human being.  In fact, thousands of people leave the cult of Mormonism every year when they discover the lies and distortions inherent within it, yet their races and genders do not change!  Hewitt is guilty of comparing apples with oranges, and is in fact guilty of intellectual bigotry himself.

            Michael Medved is no better.  In his most recent blog questioning whether Romney’s Mormonism should disqualify him or not, from being President of the United States, Medved offers some of the most irrational suggestions as a defense of him thus far.  In essence, Medved wants people to “Forget about theology,” forget about the past, and use a pragmatic philosophical outlook on life to determine not only the truth of religious claims, but whether a person is mentally capable of fulfilling such an office as President.  He claims that “Most of the anti-Mormon arguments emphasize the alleged absurdity of LDS doctrine.”  Alleged absurdity?  There is nothing alleged about it when one intelligently understands that Mormons believe that God is an exalted man who lives with a harem of polygamously married women, and is siring “spirit-children” on some planet nigh unto a star called Kolob; that Jesus and Satan are brothers, and then men and women—with enough self-effort—can go on to become gods and goddesses.

And to forget history is to repeat it.  Michael should know that, given his Jewish background.  Or maybe Michael would not mind if another Adolf Hitler rose to power, either, and put him in a concentration camp.  You might gasp and wonder, “Adolf Hitler?”  How does one get from Mitt Romney to Adolf Hitler?  That’s what happens when you discount the past, ignoring the Mormon tyranny that is a part of its history, which is driven by its theology.  Joseph Smith was a megalomaniac, as was Brigham Young.  Mitt Romney lauds Joseph Smith.  And if we accept Medved’s suggestion to forget the past, particularly when Mitt Romney’s ancestral religious past is dark and ugly, then it won’t be long before we repeat it, and that with another tyrant like an Adolf Hitler.

Finally, Medved’s pragmatic suggestion is so much like that found on the Political Left it is almost scary.  Whatever works, in other words, is great, so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.  What?  Michael’s disconnect with the almost unbearable hurt that Mormonism has caused the literally thousands, if not millions of lives, is glaring.  Yet, he thinks that as long as Romney has all the outward appearances of peace, joy, and contentment, and as long as he can balance a budget, well then, he must be Presidential material worth considering.  The problem, though, with such thinking is that it is self-refuting.  Why?  Because pragmatism is a kissing-cousin of relativism, which is a worldview divorced from the truth, while hypocritically claiming to embrace and advocate it.  In other words, a pragmatic view based on what works for one person, or one group, does not necessitate that it is either true, or beneficial to anyone else.  It is merely a matter of opinion, and we all know what the definition of an opinion is.

Clearly, there is a significant disconnect among the political media pundits, on both sides of the isle when it comes to Mitt Romney, and that disconnect centers around a lack of knowing biblical truth.  Many of the political pundits that the American populace hears on radio and TV everyday are so biblically illiterate that they will do just about anything to put someone like a Mitt Romney into office.  They might claim that they’re not electing a pastor, but a President, but once again that is merely another display of ignorance that refuses to take into account the religious commitment of the person they are defending.  Mitt Romney is not just another guy with political ambitions, just like Joseph Smith was not just another guy who wanted to be President either.  He is a Mormon, first, and cannot help but bring his Mormon influence to office.  And only those too eager to be naïve and irrational about his Mormonism will look the other way, or provide excuses for it, to detriment of us all.

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Recently during a "60 Minutes" interview with Mike Wallace, Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made the following statement:

"There is part of the history of the church’s past that I understand is troubling to people," Romney says. "Look, the polygamy, which was outlawed in our church in the 1800s, that’s troubling to me. I have a great-great grandfather. They were trying to build a generation out there in the desert. And so he took additional wives as he was told to do. And I must admit I can’t imagine anything more awful than polygamy."

Mitt Romney, as everyone by now knows, is a devout Mormon, as even Mike Wallace alluded to during the early part of the interview. So, when he tells a national audience that he "can't imagine anything more awful than polygamy," one has to wonder if he's telling the truth. Why? Because as few people know, Mormonism still has within its "Standard Works" (the Mormon source for "official doctrine" among Mormons) a full section dealing with the topic of polygamy, and those who think it's "awful" are destined for damnation for refusing to practice it. Notice the following from Doctrine & Covenants [D&C] 132:1-4.

To:Joseph Smith

1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you my servant Joseph, that inasmuch as you have inquired of my hand to know and understand wherein I, the Lord, justified my servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as also Moses, David and Solomon, my servants, as touching the principle and doctrine of their having many wives and concubines-- 2 Behold, and lo, I am the Lord thy God, and will answer thee as touching this matter. 3 Therefore, prepare thy heart to receive and obey the instructions which I am about to give unto you; for all those who have this law revealed unto them must obey the same. 4 For behold, I reveal unto you a new and an everlasting covenant; and if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned; for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory.

Of course, the rest of this particular "revelation" to Joseph Smith goes on to outline just what can be expected if one is married to the right person (another Mormon), in the right place (the Mormon temple), and by the right authority (a Mormon priesthood holder), with specific references to polygamous marriage and the condoning of it, namely exaltation unto godhood. Moreover, in D&C 132:54 there is stern warning that God allegedly revealed to Joseph to pass on to his wife, Emma, that if she objected to the idea of polygamy, that she would be destroyed.  So, it is quite clear throughout that polygamy is anything but "awful," at least according to such an authoritative Mormon source, but instead is a blessing from God, and is something to be obeyed if the faithful Mormon is truly desirous of salvation.

Nevertheless, lets assume that Romney does believe that there is nothing more awful than polygamy. What is also safe to assume? That the Mormon Church is awful, given that its leadership practiced polygamy for several decades after the supposed prohibition was uttered by Mormon President Wilford Woodruff. Hardly. In a Mormon's mind, the Mormon Church is the Kingdom of God on earth, if not God himself, and can do no wrong, despite a never-ending list of bad doctrine leading to bad behavior.  In fact, one cannot attain "true" salvation without being a member of the Mormon Church.  So, with all of that riding on the line, the Church cannot be "awful," can it?

How about, Mitt Romney believes that the Book of Mormon, or more specifically, the Doctrine & Covenants  is "awful." Not on your life. Mormonism would completely fall apart if it was ever admitted that any part of the extra-biblical writings which make Mormonism what it is were "awful" or in error. And that despite the fact that there is nothing verifiable to support anything the Book of Mormon has to say, much less the twisted renderings of D&C 132 which openly condones plural marriage.

Well, if Romney would never consider either the Mormon Church or the Book of Mormon to be "awful," then what about Joseph Smith? After all, he's the one who first introduced the idea of polygamy to the Mormon people. Besides, Joseph Smith not only practiced polygamy (some report he had as many as 33 wives), but Joseph's ventures led him to not only marry children (Helen Mar Kimball was 14; Fanny Alger was 16), the children and their mothers (Patty Bartlett and Sylvia Sessions), but the wives of other men (Zina Huntington, Marinda Johnson, Sarah Kingsley), while they were still married to them, as well. First of all, it is anathema for any Mormon to speak ill of the "prophet," so Romney is not going to do that, and that despite all the perversions that the "prophet" engaged in and propagated. Second, if a Mormon ever expects to succeed in becoming a god himself one day, and part of the requirement for attaining such a lofty status is to receive a "certificate" of approval from Joseph Smith, then fear of forfeiture will also keep Romney's mouth shut for attributing awfulness to Smith.

How about God? Isn't he "awful," since He's the one who ultimately mandated polygamy in the first place? Not at all.  How could anyone condemn God, who's an actively practicing polygamist himself?  And that includes Jesus.  Former Mormon apostle Orson Pratt once wrote,

Now, we have no reason to suppose that this increase would continue, unless through the laws of generation, whereby Jesus, like his Father, should become the Father of spirits; and, in order to become the Father of spirits, or, as Isaiah says, "The Everlasting Father," it is necessary that He should have one or more wives by He could multiply His seed, not for any limited period of time, but forever and ever: thus He truly would be a Father everlastingly, according to the name which was to be given Him.

So, if Romney does not believe that any of the aforementioned are "awful," then just how can he believe that polygamy itself is awful?  The fact of the matter is, he cannot.  Romney no more deplores polygamy than he does his Mormon faith, which is "awful" by biblical standards.  Instead, what we have in Mitt Romney is another mealy-mouthed Mormon who is unwilling to tell us what he really believes when asked, but hides those beliefs underneath his collar out of expediency.  For he knows that if he ever actually divulged his Mormon beliefs and his devotion to them in public, his political campaign for President of the United States would suddenly suffer cardiac arrest.

The United States does not need another presidential leader with a forked tongue, much less does it need someone with the kind of religious pedigree which would cause a Mitt Romney to say one thing before the TV cameras and something else in his heart.  What the United States does need is a presidential leader who says one thing because his heart's motives are pure.  Romney's motives are not pure, they are "awful."  And only those dumb enough to listen to the one-pronged message coming from his two-forked tongue will laud him otherwise.

This morning I was listening to Mormon talk show host Glenn Beck ramble on an on over the stupid comments that the "Reverend" Al Sharpton had made recently in respect of Mitt Romney and his Mormon Church ties. Apparently Sharpton said to atheist Christopher Hitchens in a debate with him, "As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways, so don't worry about that; that's a temporary situation." From that Glenn Beck, along with others whom the Mormon are attempting to course sympathy from, ranted, lamented, and attempted to gain empathy for the poor, victimized Mormon political candidate, Mitt Romney. It was enough to make a person gag.

What Beck and his Mormon callers did is what all Mormons have been doing lately, and that is to try and garner sympathy for just how "Christian" Mormonism is without ever actually addressing the fundamental tenets that Mormonism espouses (see elsewhere in this blog where those tenets are clearly laid out).

Instead of honestly and openly telling people that Mormons believe that God is a polygamously marriage man, who sires bodiless children to be sent to earth to take on bodies, whereby they can become gods and goddesses one day, he whines about just how poorly the Al Sharpton's are treating him and his religion.

Instead of honestly and openly telling people that Jesus is Satan's brother, he points out what he thinks is a flaw in Sharpton's soul, and how it is as dark as the one that Beck once exhibited during his days of drunkenness and debauchery.

Instead of honestly and openly telling people that no one is going to gain entrance into heaven one day until they first accept Joseph Smith (the founder of Mormonism) as a prophet (even though he never uttered a prophecy that ever came to pass exactly as stated), and then receive a "certificate" of approval from Joseph Smith, Beck laments that he doesn't feel pity for Sharpton, but feels badly for just how ignorant he is.

Glenn Beck is the typical Mormon evader who is dishonestly and deceitfully duping people with his victimhood persecution complex. It is a hallmark strategy that Mormon President and Public Relations guru Gordon B. Hinckley has been promoting for years, and sad to say, it is working to the detriment of society as a whole. For not only are people being hoodwinked into believing that Mormonism is something that it is not, namely Christian, those dumb enough to fall for all the whining and complaining are slowly being indoctrinated in the beliefs and practices of demonic paganism, and given the biblical ignorance and illiteracy of so many, they're swallowing much of it hook, line, and sinker.

America, we need to wake up! Mormonism, like Islam, like all false religions in general, is not what it claims to be, and the Glenn Beck types are feeding us a line of bull by trying to convince us otherwise. Yes, Al Sharpton said something dumb, but if one were to ask a Mormon what was so dumb about it, particularly if one were to get into the origin of all the Mormon gods and goddesses, one could easily say that Sharpton was right, at least to a certain degree.

What America doesn't need is to be substituting one form of bigotry for another. And that is exactly what Glenn Beck, Mitt Romney, Gordon Hinckley, and the Mormon Church is doing by playing on the sympathies and sensitivities of those whom they not going to inform as to what they really believe. Yet, if we look the other way, as so many will, then we deserve what we get: one bigot exploiting another bigot to simply promote his bigotry, while many hypocritically sit around lauding one and condemning the other.