I appreciate that not all Republicans are Christians. Some are Jews, and a disproportionate percentage (compared to America as a whole) are Mormons.
I know of no branch of Christianity (other than Mormonism) that thinks of Mormons as anything other than cultists. Golden plates, revelations from God, lost tribes of Israel, their own version of the Bible: what part of this Black Muslim space plane Judgment Day-level heresy isn’t clear to “normal” Republicans?
By any standard, Mormons are nutjobs. Obsessed with genealogical records, they keep their databases more secure than our government’s nukes. Their fringe members marry young teen girls to older men, and the creep factor is way beyond icky.
I’ve never met a card-carrying Republican who was comfortable talking about Mormons. Now it looks like Mitt Romney will be McCain’s veep.
And that’s the problem with a religiously driven political party. By all rights 2/3ds of the delegates to the RNC should walk out on Romney, but they’ll eat their religious beliefs before they break ranks.
With Republicans, politics are above all else. As with the right to life, they’ll shelve their beliefs about Mormon heresy and will close ranks behind John McCain because the kind of Christianity practiced by Republican activists would never by recognized by Jesus Christ as anything even vaguely related to his teachings.
Will they ask Mitt about his older family members who were A-OK with polygamy? Why did so many of his relatives move to Mexico a several generations ago? Does Mitt Romney believe that Jesus Christ died for his sins?
Do Republicans know any of this, or even care?
No, they just want to keep emailing each other lies about Barack and Michelle Obama. Because now, more than ever, being a Republican means you think your brain is a useless appendage, much like the appendix.
Let’s hear the media quiz Republicans about their comfort levels with a Mormon veep who’s a chronic dog abuser.
Voting for Mitt Romney is like pissing on God. The Christian right, betrayed once again by the religiously indifferent ass clowns who run and control the Republican party.
And yes, this former Lutheran and avowed atheist is laughing his ass off right now. I would find it easier to support a Hare Krishna Veep, than most Christians will find Mitt palatable.
The Republican party is forming a circular firing squad right now. They have, in fact, gone full circle and are now truly the party of Jim Crow Democrats, backroom politicians, and sleazy polluting big bidness. The only thing traditionally “Republican” about rank and file Republicans of today is the set of legacy cufflinks they keep in mom’s jewelry box because you never know when French cuffs will make a comeback.
UPDATE: Needless to say, McCain didn’t pick Mitt. So however angry any visiting Mormons/LDSers are about my post, you should be even angrier at McCain right now. This is a major bit of disrespect for Mitt, who pulled in a LOT of votes in the Republican primaries and caucuses.
Everything I said above is exactly what evangelical Republican voters think of Mormons, and I should know, because I was raised as a churched Republican.
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He may be Mormon, but he’s rich. Republicans will do anything in the name of money – no act is too despicable, no person is too oily and corrupt, as long as there’s money to be had.
OOoh, can ya smell the gold-lace purple garments, with big bulges (of money)?
If this campaign season were to be submitted as a pro-wrestling feud, it would be a squash match, right after the curtain jerkers. Except that IF this was actually a wrestling match, it would be FAR more entertaining.
“Voting for Mitt Romney is like pissing on God.”
Oh crap. Now I have to vote Republican. Can’t pass on that kind of opportunity.
I should also point out, as nutty as Mormonism sounds, it’s really no nuttier than any other religion. It’s actually a little refreshing that non-Mormons don’t automatically go to some sort of Hell.
I think you have some very misplaced views about members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon is just a nickname). I’m a member of the Church, and firmly believe Jesus Christ died for my sins. I believe in the Holy Bible. I pray to God, and I know He hears and answers my prayers.
And I am not a polygamist. In fact, any member of the Church who is found to be engaging in polygamy is excommunicated. Many people say that some of the polygamist sects out there are members of the Church, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Hope you’ll temper your strong feelings towards the Church.
Not bloody likely. I respect your leaving a comment, but any resemblance between your faith and Christianity is one arrived at over decades of repeated watering down of LDS beliefs to make your church “less Mormon.” You still, however, have Gold Plates and that Smith dude in your history, not to mention all those creepy databases.
But don’t sweat it: I think most Christians are full of it too.
I’d have more respect for Mormon’s if they would just admit they modified (evolved, “perfected,” whatever) Christianity to the point where it’s no longer Christianity.
Frankly, I find most of the changes to actually be improvements:
- lack of eternal damnation
- getting to be a god, rather than just hanging with one
- humanizing of God
- letting God get a little ass
- God as a manipulator of existent matter, rather than actually creating *everything*
Of course, there’s plenty of bad changes, too. The inherent misogyny is one. (Women can’t get to the highest level of heaven on their own. They can only get there through their husbands.) And there are many others.
Again, it’s no worse than Christianity, but no better either. But it’s radically different and Mormons should stop pretending otherwise.
Your hate is not worth the time of day