Mitt Romney and Mormonism

[NirvanaMan]

That's The Secret to you.

[wendybeth]

Isn't that an Oprah thing?

[JWBear]

Hey! I wasn't invited in to the Secret Society. I guess I've been snubbed again.

[Alex]

Um...I'm not talking about the practitioners not knowing what there involved in but them not being willing to tell people not yet within the circle. Romney knows everything he needs to know about Mormonism; the question is whether he is open with other people about what those things are.

I'm not sure how being a half-hearted religious person is an improvement. I have more respect for people who realizing what they believe commit themselves to it wholeheartedly. I just thing they're wrong.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Alex

Um...I'm not talking about the practitioners not knowing what there involved in but them not being willing to tell people not yet within the circle. Romney knows everything he needs to know about Mormonism; the question is whether he is open with other people about what those things are.

Not quite what I was getting at. By the time people get to the inner circle, they've long since committed themselves to believing what they're told. And I wasn't really relating that to Romney in any way.

I'm not sure how being a half-hearted religious person is an improvement. I have more respect for people who realizing what they believe commit themselves to it wholeheartedly. I just thing they're wrong.

Not so much half-hearted as disconnected from dogma or perhaps willing to follow their heart when it differs from the religion they otherwise consider themselves as believing in.

[BarTopDancer]

I'd vote for an atheist over a religious person if their qualities were the same. I don't vote down party lines and don't plan to start anytime soon.

[Alex]

Yes, but that is what I was talking about and you stated your post as a response to my question. So I figured I'd clarify.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Heh, re-reading your statement, Kevin, it seems clear to me that you and I just never going to agree here because of our opinions regarding taxation. You are centrist because you're socially liberal but fiscally conservative. I am liberal because I'm both socially liberal AND looking to take and spend too much of your money on things like textbooks for classrooms as opposed to body armor for soldiers. Wait. The Republicans aren't funding that, either!

[Gemini Cricket]

Oh, and in case anyone didn't know, Mitt's real first name is Willard.







I don't know what that has to do with anything, but I believe I figured out why he goes by "Mitt".

[Snowflake]

I think having a president named Willard would be prefereable to Mitt or Strom or Orrin. I do wonder where some of these names come from.

Augustus Throckmorton Peele for president