Foldyourarmsandsaynah wrote:I don't know about the rest of America, but I've been waiting to talk about magic underwear and polygamy for YEARS.
alex maiolo wrote:Skronk wrote:galanter wrote:I hear a lot more anti-Mormon bias on this board than I do from conservatives or even conservative evangelicals. (Then again, I hear a lot more general anti-religion bias here overall as well.)
I don't think there's much of an anti-mormon view, as there is an anti-evangelical one.
Exactly. In this thread, and others, my point has been what makes a Mormon's belief any crazier than any other religious person's?
It's all myth that depends on truckloads of faith.
"Can a person walk across a lake?"
"Of course not"
"But you believe Jesus did?"
"Of course I do, he's Jesus!"
Why is this crazier than the Joe Smith story?
It's not.
However, the people in Nebraska won't see it that way. That's all I'm saying.
lessenberry wrote:If you want to know why he may well have a chance, take a look at the candidate who should logically be the Republican nominee, former Massachusetts Governor — and Detroit native — Mitt Romney. He is far more handsome than Huckabee. He speaks very well, is enormously intelligent, has a picture-perfect family . . . and comes across as an utter robot.
I interviewed him in April, and have seldom spoken to a more calculating machine. The one sincere note that comes across when you talk to Romney is that he really does think he is better than anyone else, period. Just take a look at the interview he gave The Detroit News' Gordon Trowbridge, published online Sunday. Romney was asked about the fact that Huckabee has soared ahead of him in Iowa.
That's not to be taken seriously, the bionic man said. "With the challenges we face, you need somebody who is smart, analytical," he said. "I'm able to take tough issues and analyze them. I like debate, argument, consideration of options. You need to have a deliberative, thoughtful approach."
Romney's supporters have been worried that the public won't accept a Mormon. Their real problem may be, to put it in Star Trek terms, that he is a Vulcan, incapable of human emotion.
This is a guy, after all, who put his Irish Setter Seamus in a cage on top of the family car for a 12-hour drive from Boston to Ontario, and then was amazed to discover the terrified dog's excrement flowing down the windows. His reaction to what was clearly animal torture?
He hosed off the car.
Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:Vote Romney!
This is a guy, after all, who put his Irish Setter Seamus in a cage on top of the family car for a 12-hour drive from Boston to Ontario, and then was amazed to discover the terrified dog's excrement flowing down the windows. His reaction to what was clearly animal torture?
He hosed off the car.
Er, no, honestly. I'm more interested in freedom and the rule of law, as opposed to the equivocations of your hypocritical cryptofascist crusade.Rick Reuben wrote:The funny thing, Antero, is that you wouldn't be saying a word about Putin's human rights record if the vampirical gang still had clear paths to the cookie jar in Russia. If the NY/London network had better cooperation from the Kremlin, I bet you'd be singing songs about Putin.