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The New THOMA$ REPORT on Tuesday, December 25, 2007 1:55:35 PM
The following is an example of the religious infighting
going on in the presidential race: "[In] June 1998, the Southern Baptist
Convention held its annual meeting in Salt Lake City,
the backyard of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints -- the Mormons. The annual meeting created a stir between the
Baptists and the Mormons. The keynote speaker at the gathering was
then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. At the annual
meeting, the SBC distributed copies of a book entitled 'Confronting the
Contradictions Between Mormon Beliefs and True Christianity,' [Notice their
effort to separate Mormonism from "true Christianity" -RT] whose lead
author is R. Philip Roberts, director of the Interfaith Witness Division of the
North American Mission Board of the SBC. The book maintains that while Mormons
claim to be Christians, they propagate a non-Christian view of God, a
non-Christian view of Jesus, and a non-Christian view of the gospel. In a passage
that echoes Huckabee’s question, the book quotes a Mormon apostle as saying: 'Satan
is a person with a spirit body in form like that of all other men. He is a
spirit brother of ours and of our Lord Jesus Christ.' [A "spirit
brother" is not a "brother-in-fact." -RT] In another passage,
Roberts and his co-authors state: 'Mormons claim that the early Christian
church contained all the same teachings the LDS [Latter-day Saints] embrace
today. However, with the death of Christ’s apostles, they believe ["They
believe." -RT] the church fell into total apostasy, instituted false doctrine,
changed the Scriptures, and lost the authority to minister in God’s name.
Mormonism claims that every baptism performed by a minister outside of the true
Church of Christ is rejected by God.” [According to this author,with not a single
shred of any kind of proof. -RT] This is the kind of thing that happens when
you allow religious beliefs to dominate an election. "Religious
beliefs" are not "religion." They are beliefs written by men
and sold to the "religious" as the "word of God," which they
are not. It is such "religious beliefs" that lead me to stay away from Islam
(for my purposes), which teaches their adherents to beat their women for the
"high crime" of being in the company of a man not their
husband, and who beat and kill their women if a man rapes them; who force their women to wear clothes that hide any view of any part of their bodies, since they're so afraid of losing them to others if they can see them;
who allow a man to "marry" a whore for a night's fun, then
"divorce her" in the morning by going outside and shouting "I
divorce thee" three times, thus circumventing the rule not allowing a man
to have sex with a woman not his wife (They're allowed multiple wives). Things
like these, plus the total control over Muslims by the church including how
many times a day to pray, in what position, and in what direction offend me.
Plus, Muslins demand Christians and members of other religions observe their
customs, while Muslims ignore those of other religions while their
"Bible," the "Koran" advises them to kill those who
do not believe the same way they do. If anybody can prove me wrong, please do so and I'll be happy to admit it. (Quotes are from News Max)