steve_bnk

The Christian secterian antipathies are already well established. There is historic infighting within the Southern Baptist Convetion and netween other evangelical groups. Evangelicals reject both Mormons and the RCC as true Christians. From commetary, it is unknown how the evangelcials will vote. From commntary some may not vote at all rather tha choose between a Mormon conservative and a democrat.

The RCC declares itself to be the one and only true Christian church o Earth.

End of derail....good topic for the campaign forum.

sotto voce

Seem, yes. But, as WS Gilbert so acutely noted,

Things are seldom what they seem;
Skim milk masquerades as cream.

Is that what most people actually do? Or do they demonstrate how sensible was Napoleon Bonaparte when he said that "History is a set of lies agreed upon"? Do they say, "Mormonism is fit only for lunatics, but I won't say so, because it is in flat contradiction of the Bible, so I'll join the Grand Lemming Brigade"?

'except to fundamentalist evangelicals'

Who are not nice people, unlike Mormons? One cannot be both fundamentalist and evangelical, any more than one can be both capitalist and communist, or democratic and totalitarian. But it's a travesty of the truth that it is only evangelicals who find Mormonism heretical, anyway. Remember, evangelicalism is only the result of taking the official statements of faith of the denominations seriously, rather than ignoring them. Every mainstream denomination has dismissed the Latter-Day Saints movement as totally phoney, if not absurd, and hardly worth even talking about. Here is an example:

'The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, together with the vast majority of Christian denominations in the United States, does not regard the Mormon church as a Christian church. That is because the official writings of Mormonism deny fundamental teachings of orthodox Christianity.'

'Nothing really important,' huh. Lutherans, Anglicans and Methodists, Presbyterians, Brethren and more, who regard each other as validly Christian, all regard Mormonism as far too heretical to be added to that category. LDS provenance itself is laughable— just one, single-author, preposterous book, hilarious fiction, that attempts to give itself some authority by claiming association with Christ! Anyone could write such frivolous stuff, like a novel. If Mormonism started as a joke that was taken seriously, it would be no surprise at all.

So has the Vatican cult condemned Mormonism, amusingly enough. As we have already learned here, the Vatican cult, of extreme right-wing association, bears basic similarities with Mormonism, in its dominating hierarchy, in opposing the Bible teaching of justification by faith, first exemplified by Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. Like an overgrown maverick due a good whipping, opposing the Bible teaching of justification by faith is about all that the USA is good for in terms of contribution to religious culture, so dedicated is it to the worship of Mammon, one presumes. A deity that sends it insane. Or so it seems.

Duvduv

I just suppose the media doesn't want to dive into this potential minefield even by way of exploration of Romney's faith, which would be interpreted on its own as trying to do him in politically.