Smart Mitt Romney Mormon? So what?
Mitt Romney is a brain. He rattles off statistics, significant data and chart figures as if he had them implanted on his lips.
The man is impressive. Let’s face it. In the candidates’ debate, he shined like an A+ student. It did not matter the subject matter, Romney was at the top of the latest.
Further, his wit was precious. Add endearing wit to intellectual acumen and you’ve truly got a presidential figure standing on the platform.
Then why should his being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints mean anything?
He’s a Mormon. There are plenty of evangelicals who conclude he’s actually party to a cult, a major one.
There are those religious conservatives who say that if he’s smart in the head, who can trust his heart? One evangelical woman told a reporter that she doubted if his prayers could reach the Jesus of the Bible.
And so it goes in trying to be biblically faithful while at the same time sizing up Mormon Romney as quite the impressive persona for the Oval Office.
It could come down to this basic: Smart Mitt Romney Mormon? So What? And that’s a pressing question that ought to be given serious consideration by the thoughtful, even evangelicals. Yes, even evangelicals.
“Surveys show up to half the electorate have problems voting for a candidate in the Mormon faith, which believes that God is a physical man who dwells on the universe’s greatest star, Kolob,” per The Washington Times’ Joel Curl.
Mormon leaders and grassroots try to portray Mormonism as mainstream Christianity. Conservative talk-show host Mormon Glenn Beck on Good Morning America tried to do the same. On Beck’s own show he often refers to himself as a “Christian.” Countless evangelicals have taken him at his word; but they are so naively incorrect.
Mormons feel left out of Christendom. The reason? They are.
Conservative theologians have always regarded Mormonism as a cult—along with Christian Science, Scientology and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
“In an AP-Yahoo poll last month, half said they had some problems supporting a Mormon presidential candidate, including one-fifth who said it would make them very uncomfortable.”
The list of Mormon cultic teachings is long enough to form a book of its own. Many such publications have been authored, thus the knowledge of non-Mormons concerning the cult.
None of these Mormon teachings equate with fundamental Christian doctrine held to by biblical believers—Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic.
Yet Mormon leaders and their grassroots constituents continue to recite the mantra that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is mainstream Christianity.
Those who state that Mormon Mitt Romney’s Mormonism should be equated to John F. Kennedy’s Roman Catholicism are way off beat. The so-called rationale is this: Kennedy’s Catholic tie was no threat to his being President. Therefore, Romney’s Mormon allegiance will be no threat to his being President.
For starters, there is no equating biblical Catholic dogma with Mormon’s cultic extremist teachings. None at all.
Those biblical beliefs held to by Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic faithful are all fundamental to Christian doctrine. The cultic bases of Mormonism in no way match up to these shared biblical beliefs of the three major segments of Christendom. Why? Because Mormon cultic bases are directly counter to biblical beliefs.
But still, with all that laid out, should it finally matter if he has the presidential smarts to lead America?
Important question. True. It really is.
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