A Mormon president ?

[Leonel]

I don't see why a Mormon president would be a problem, let alone a president of any religion. He'd have a duty to serve all the people of the United States, no matter what differences in religion there are.

Except Southern Baptists. I wouldn't trust those serpents with a managerial job at Taco Bell.

 

[GhostWriter16]

I don't see why a Mormon president would be a problem, let alone a president of any religion. He'd have a duty to serve all the people of the United States, no matter what differences in religion there are.

Except Southern Baptists. I wouldn't trust those serpents with a managerial job at Taco Bell.

Why Southern Baptists in particular? I've attended a Southern Baptist Church before, although currently we attend a Conservative Baptist Church, and I don't see anything at all wrong with Southern Baptist Churches in general.

If you are going to say: "Their doctrines are wacky" well then what is Mormon doctrine again? (No offense to anyone, but to an outsider looking in, most people would say their doctrine is wacky.)

 

[Communisto]

If you are going to say: "Their doctrines are wacky" well then what is Mormon doctrine again? (No offense to anyone, but to an outsider looking in, most people would say their doctrine is wacky.)

Hey, Dom, its just as wacky as your doctrine. Which is as wacky as scientology, which is as wacky as Odin worship.

 

[downtown]

then what is Mormon doctrine again? (No offense to anyone, but to an outsider looking in, most people would say their doctrine is wacky.)

If anybody is curious, we have like, 3 different Ask a Mormon threads. This isn't one of them.

 

[timtofly]

I don't see why a Mormon president would be a problem, let alone a president of any religion. He'd have a duty to serve all the people of the United States, no matter what differences in religion there are.

Except Southern Baptists. I wouldn't trust those serpents with a managerial job at Taco Bell.

You do realize that Carter and Clinton were Southern Baptist?

 

[GhostWriter16]

If anybody is curious, we have like, 3 different Ask a Mormon threads. This isn't one of them.

I wasn't asking, it was a rhetorical question. And I tried to word it in the least offensive way possible. People can believe whatever they feel like it, but as far as Christian doctrine goes, it is quite radical. MUCH more so than the Southern Baptists.

Now, some people will argue that ALL faith is equally crazy, some will argue that beliefs don't really have different degrees of craziness, whatever. But it makes little sense to say "I'm OK with ANY denomination of religion, except Southern Baptists, because they are the craziest."

 

[NovaKart]

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About having a Mormon president, it is a rather conservative religion and the Mormon church has been known to get involved in political issues like Prop 8 so it would be a concern for me. Still, I don't know if a Mormon's political stance would be that different from a conservative Christian's so I guess I wouldn't be any less likely to vote for a Mormon than someone like Bush.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Now, some people will argue that ALL faith is equally crazy, some will argue that beliefs don't really have different degrees of craziness, whatever. But it makes little sense to say "I'm OK with ANY denomination of religion, except Southern Baptists, because they are the craziest."

It's all a question of what you're used to. Muslims raised in a predominately Muslim state probably find Christian notions about the trinity and monotheism utterly bizarre. A friend of mine from Oregon (Portland), who was raised free of religion, cannot understand how deeply people internalized religion to the point that someone could feel shame at seeing a woman in a bikini. But I was raised in such a sect, so I know what that's like: and you and I were both raised in a European, and thus christian, culture so we don't find ideas about the trinity absurd.

Well, *I* do, but the sect I was raised in rejected the trinity.


"Some people juggle geese."

 

[_random_]

I don't see why a Mormon president would be a problem, let alone a president of any religion. He'd have a duty to serve all the people of the United States, no matter what differences in religion there are.

Except Southern Baptists. I wouldn't trust those serpents with a managerial job at Taco Bell.

C'mon, Clinton wasn't terrible as far as recent presidents go, Carter had a pretty good record as governor of Georgia, and Gore would have almost certainly been a better president than Bush. Of course, all of them wound up leaving the denominations later, so perhaps there's a pattern here.

 

[GhostWriter16]

C'mon, Clinton wasn't terrible as far as recent presidents go, Carter had a pretty good record as governor of Georgia, and Gore would have almost certainly been a better president than Bush. Of course, all of them wound up leaving the denominations later, so perhaps there's a pattern here.

Clinton was totally awful and Gore was a radical environmentalist. Carter I can give credit for at least doing what he felt was right, but pacifism doesn't work...

And Carter was RCC wasn't he?

We need an Orthodox President, Random for POTUS!!!!

 

[Arakhor]

You'll have to do a lot better than "totally awful", you know, if you want people to take you seriously. What did he do as President that was so terrible?

 

[Lovebird]

2Timothy 3:16-17 speaks to the validity of Scripture.

Scripture says homosexuality is wrong.

Christians believe in Scripture.

Christians believe homosexuality is wrong.

There's simply no other real logical way to spin it, from a Christian perspective.

So you're admitting that you spin scripture to get that conclusion?

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[NovaKart]

Clinton was totally awful and Gore was a radical environmentalist. Carter I can give credit for at least doing what he felt was right, but pacifism doesn't work...

And Carter was RCC wasn't he?

We need an Orthodox President, Random for POTUS!!!!

Does RCC stand for Roman Catholic Church? Carter was not Catholic, the only Catholic president was Kennedy. I think Carter was Baptist.

How was Clinton awful? Aside from the sex scandal I don't recall him doing anything that bad and the sex scandal was taken way out of proportion and used as a political weapon.

And Gore was a radical environmentalist? If you call doing a documentary on global warming being a radical environmentalist. He wasn't forcing everyone to use cloth diapers or anything like that.

Was Spiro Agnew orthodox? He was VP.

 

[GhostWriter16]

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Does RCC stand for Roman Catholic Church? Carter was not Catholic, the only Catholic president was Kennedy. I think Carter was Baptist.

RCC is Roman Catholic Church, yes. And you could certainly be correct about that. I must have been wrong.

How was Clinton awful? Aside from the sex scandal I don't recall him doing anything that bad and the sex scandal was taken way out of proportion and used as a political weapon.

Selling weapons technology to China. Moving the country on a progressive path. Signing DADT (OK, that was a good thing)

And Gore was a radical environmentalist? If you call doing a documentary on global warming being a radical environmentalist. He wasn't forcing everyone to use cloth diapers or anything like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_the_environment

Seems fairly radical.

 

[_random_]

And Carter was RCC wasn't he?

Baptist. Left the SBC in 2000.

We need an Orthodox President, Random for POTUS!!!!

I'd have voted for Dukakis if I were alive and over 18 in 88. Looks like that ship has sailed though. Wait till I'm fully converted and 35 and you can feel free to write me in.

Was Spiro Agnew orthodox? He was VP.

Episcopalian, which is fine, given that their numbers in American politics make some corruption inevitable. The pool of Orthodox politicians has always been pretty small, so having the legacies of Agnew and Blagojevich just might be unbearable.

 

[timtofly]

C'mon, Clinton wasn't terrible as far as recent presidents go, Carter had a pretty good record as governor of Georgia, and Gore would have almost certainly been a better president than Bush. Of course, all of them wound up leaving the denominations later, so perhaps there's a pattern here.

Clinton was totally awful and Gore was a radical environmentalist. Carter I can give credit for at least doing what he felt was right, but pacifism doesn't work...

And Carter was RCC wasn't he?

We need an Orthodox President, Random for POTUS!!!!

Carter is still Baptist as of 2008.

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[NovaKart]

Selling weapon technology to China? Not any worse than anything Reagan did. Moving America to a progressive path? Hmmm, that's all I can say. I think that and saying Al Gore is a radical environmentalist only qualifies from a right wing American perspective.

 

[Zack]

Selling weapons technology to China. Moving the country on a progressive path. Signing DADT (OK, that was a good thing)

lol at number 2... like that's a valid reason

 

[Earthling]

Have you looked at standard Christianity?

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(with the addendum that Obama is going to win reelection anyway, so this is all moot.)

 

[civ_king]

I'm going to register as a Republican to vote for Romney in the Primary