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Edited on Fri Dec-07-07 01:58 AM by Buster Schulz
Evangelical Christians: Ahh, yes — the true atheists of our time. In testimony today, Romney attempted to brush-off Evangelical concerns that his Mormon doctrine “faith” may influence his Presidency; Romney attempted to mitigate those misgivings in context with JFK and Catholicism. Prior to his election, JFK stated the separation of church and state is absolute, and his Catholic faith WOULD NOT inform his presidency. Today, Romney stated exactly the opposite — that those who believe in absolute separation are wrong. ELDERS of ISRAEL: “The Lord told the Prophet Joseph Smith there would be an attempt to overthrow the country by destroying the Constitution. Joseph Smith predicted that the time would come when the Constitution would hang, as it were, by a thread, and at that time ‘this people will step forth and save it from the threatened destruction’ (Journal of Discourses, 7:15). It is my conviction that the elders of Israel, widely spread over the nation, will at that crucial time successfully rally the righteous of our country and provide the necessary balance of strength to save the institutions of constitutional government…. If the Gentiles on this land reject the word of God and conspire to overthrow liberty and the Constitution, their doom is fixed, and they ‘shall be cut off from among my people who are of the covenant’ (1Nephi 14:6; 3 Nephi 21:11, 14, 21; D&C 4:114-115, 117 (God, Family, Country, p. 345.)…. “As we spread abroad in this land, bearers of this priesthood, men and women with high ideals and standards, our influence will spread as we take positions of leadership in the community, in the state, in the nation, in the world…. ‘And now,’ warns Moroni, ‘ we can behold the decrees of God concerning this land, that it is a land of promise; and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall serve God, or they shall be swept off when the fullness of his wrath shall come upon them…’”. (THE TEACHINGS OF EZRA TAFT BENSON – p. 619-621. Benson was the thirteenth President (“Prophet”) of the Mormon Church.)
Romney holds the calling of “Priest” in the Mormon Church. Thomas Jefferson wrote, “History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.” In case you still believe Romney’s Mormon religion would not impinge upon his Presidency, read on.
“The sober preacher trained in the dialectics of the seminary was rare west of the Appalachians. One found instead faith healers and circuit rider evangelists, who stirred their audiences to paroxysms of religious frenzy…. The revivals by their very excesses deadened a normal antipathy toward religious eccentricity. And these Pentecostal years, which coincided with Joseph Smith’s adolescence and early manhood, were the most fertile in America’s history for sprouting of prophets.” (Fawn Brodie, No Man Knows My History).
The Mormon faith gave birth to itself on the coat tails of the Enlightenment period, back when scholarly research began pointing to the dubious character of Christianity through published proof-positive inaccuracies in the KJV bible, and a butt-ugly historical record of murder, torture, burning books: intolerance…. This was a time of ecclesiastical turmoil — the Second Great Awakening — orthodoxy had lost face, opening the gate to new and/or revised sectarianisms on earth.
Mormonism got legs with the apparition of an angle calling himself Moroni appearing in founder Joseph Smith’s bedroom, announcing he (Moroni) had been sent by God to resuscitate the broken connection between God and his children — which indicates everyone between the time of Christ and Moroni had been ignored, damned, and/or forgotten. After that, the Mormon story reads like the stuff of dreams, superstitions, and ritual — all spawned along with a number of other new religious movements at the time.
Smith first distinguished himself as an affable and talented charismatic flimflammer who began his mystical journey in black magic and crystal gazing artifice handed down from his dad; this early introduction into shamanism was enhanced by neighbor girl, Sally Chase, whose own magical rock, when dropped in a hat, led Smith to a buried “peep stone” providing him with special powers of divination. He advertised his gift in locating treasure using his sacred rock. After paying the boy fourteen dollars a month to find hidden silver, one disgruntled customer took Smith to court where he was convicted of fraud. Smith went on to found “…the one and only true church of God.”
That last is a question, Mitt – about ‘the one and only true church of God’… ‘cause I already know that’s what they teach in the Mormon Church… lemme put it on you this way, Mitt: Do you believe the Mormon Church is the one and only true church of God? And if so, do you believe that your God inspired the Constitution as proclaimed by Benson? And if so, when you make stupid statements, that the Constitutional separation of church and state is not absolute, are you really saying that as President you intend to continue with Bush reinterpretations of separation of church and state… that you and your buddy God will smite patriots who resist your errant ways?
“… it is true that some of the original colonists fled Europe for religious reasons; it is true that some of the first colonists were founded as religious communities; it is even true that most of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were practicing Christians of one denomination or another. Nevertheless this nation was NOT founded on Christian principles.” (MORAL MINORITY: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers — p. ix, by Brooke Allen)
Constitutional separation of church and state serves two masters: it protects people — freedom of religion; and of-the-people, by-the-people, and for-the people — freedom from religion.
Like Evangelical Christians, Mormons are world-ender dominionists — theocrats who like getting in on cleansing the earth of infidels. In truth, the future Kingdom Mormons and Evangelicals pray for ultimately has no truck with laws of men — including the Declaration of Independence and Constitution…. Simply, the basis for their fundamentalisms preclude secular law, Constitutional or otherwise. Both Evangelicals and Mormons have insinuated themselves into the neocon-lexicon boasting Good News that they and God claim the Constitution to be their own, and interpret it whenever it serves their mutual politik.
Just like Romney flipped on abortion when politics and faith dictated necessity, his brand of religious instruction shall require that he/they continue to sweep-off infidels and serve the authoritarian conservative cause by strangling separation of church and state — until it is dead and final ascendancy of prophesied Kingdom Come on earth as it is in Heaven. No matter what they say about personal conscience, free agency, and Constitutional loyalties, Mormons follow orders from their leaders, like Ezra Daft Benson.
Beneath the advertised sweet, soft, and loving exterior of God’s people, red state zealot Mormon’s have forever cast their lot with Evangelical Christian monotheists by voting in the holy Bush/Cheney regime: it has been the neoconfirmation of an abomination that has done more than any other administration to usurp and subvert the Constitution of the United States of America. The Constitution Mormons believe in, IS NOT the same as established by the Founders. And the God Mormons believe in, gives orders from Salt Lake.
Yes Mitt. You’re wrong. JFK is correct: separation of church and state is absolute — no matter how you try to spin it, or flip it. Tenets driving your faith will always come before Constitutional intent of the Founders: you cannot be a Mormon, and believe otherwise, because you’re a closet monarchist serving an invisible theocratic King.
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