While you’re waiting… at Calling All Wingnuts

While you’re waiting…

Published by Mike Stark April 18th, 2007 in Uncategorized

I made this cal lthis morning. As far as I know, it’s the first time Mitt Romney’s faith has been discussed in the slightest detail anywhere in the media.

I don’t know why, but for some reason (maybe it’s got to do with the fact that Mormons don’t reveal this aspect of their faith until an inductee is well within the fold?), Mormons are very seldom questioned about some of the more ridiculous things they believe…

Before I get flamed, let me say that I think all religions have a certain number of ridiculous beliefs… Christians believe the earth is 6,000 years old, a prophet fed thousands of people with a coupla fish and that same guy died and then came back to chat with his friends three days later… Jews say Moses parted a sea, Noah put two of every animal on a boat and floated around for 40 days and Jonah was swallowed by a whale… Muslims believe in 72 virgins and the sanctity of Muhammed’s earthly visage… or something…

Anyway, this wasn’t about any of that. I think that even religious people will agree with me that the very idea of faith is a mystery and that it’s reasonable for the secular to think that some of the wilder ideas are, well, kinda wild. I mean, if it wasn’t Christianity, we’d be locking quite a few people up for their evangelism…

So yeah… the point of this call was two-fold. One: I was pointing out that these guys were happy to question Kieth Ellison’s faith (he’s Muslim) when he was elected to Congress, but they are all too willing to give Romney a pass. Second: Policy and how you’re gonna govern really is much more important than what you profess to believe. Bill Clinton was a Southern Baptist, but he governed much differently than, say, Newt Gingrich. You see, the fact is that I really don’t believe any of these power mad political types have any higher priority than accumulation of personal power. Their faith isn’t driving their politics; nay, I say it’s the other way around. How else to explain Romney being pro-life in Utah, pro-choice in Massachusetts and then pro-life again while running for President?

So yeah, spare me the religious talk while you’re on the stump or behind the microphone. Tell me what you’re gonna do. That’s all.

6 Responses to “While you’re waiting…”

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1 Pauly Apr 18th, 2007 at 7:51 pm

It may well take a coupla hundred more years, Mike, but one day religion will dissapear completey, and the world, if still able to sustain life, will be a far better place to live.
2 Frank Apr 19th, 2007 at 8:59 am

One of the people who responded to your comments said that you don’t know what Mitt R believes because you haven’t heard it directly from him which is a complete lie.

If Mitt is a mormon in good standing and is accepted at temple then he is required to believe all of the things of his church.

There is no room for alternative points of view in the Mormon Church when it comes to the nature of God.
3 trueBeliever Apr 19th, 2007 at 10:33 am

Oh, you are going to be so busted when those spaceships from Kolob arrive.
4 David Hess Apr 20th, 2007 at 11:28 am

You sure are right about Mormons’ method of waiting until you have turned your life upside down and been a member for close to a year before they tell you the really crazy crap. They preyed on my brother (when he was living alone in a trailer park, depressed, and recently divorced…imagine that…preying on a lonely person) and me, and my brother joined them for a year. He quit when he found out life’s goal was to go to the 3rd level of heaven where you play out your own sick god fantasy.

Before he joined, he (astutely) questioned what the deal was with the horses and oxen in the book of Mormon if it was written about Native Americans before European migration occured. They got really angry with him and just said that if some minor inconsistency like that would keep him out of god’s true church, then it was his own stupid fault (or something to that effect). They got him to shut down his reason.

Luckily, I was not persuaded to leave my crazy evangelical Christian church that I was going to with my folks (I was a high school junior at the time). Finally, I went to UVA and education saved me! (my dad and stepmom wanted me to stay home and go to NOVA dame…because they feared that what happened would happen) It’s great to be religion free, I tell you. My Sundays are like Homer’s Sunday when he quits going to church. God must really love me to have given me a path away from his followers!
5 Gene Apr 21st, 2007 at 9:09 am

Is Mitt still GUNG HO for “War” in Iraq? Are any of his Five Sons in the service yet? Or do they and Mitt have other priorities?

http://www.mfso.org/article.php?id=344
6 Frank Apr 24th, 2007 at 11:45 am

Barbara supports Romney–sort of

Asked if voters should be wary of Romney being a Mormon, the former president’s wife, Barbara, said “not at all,” noting there are “wild people” in many religions.

“I mean it was in 1897 that bigamy was outlawed in that church,” she said. “You know we have a lot of Christian wild people too, and a lot of Jewish wild people and a lot of Muslim wild people. The Mormon religion takes care of its own, they don’t have people on welfare.

At a campaign appearance in South Carolina last month, Romney, who has absorbed several of Jeb Bush’s former aides, said, “Down in Florida, that Jeb Bush. He’s quite a guy, isn’t he? I love him. If his name weren’t Bush, he’d be running for president, I’m convinced. And we’d all have to stand aside because he’d be such a sure-fire winner.”

CNN source

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