Bias against Mormon presidential candidate unchanged since 1967, poll finds

Howey said:
It shouldn't matter at all what religion a presidential candidate is.

Until that candidate starts combining his campaign and policies with his religion.

Then there's a problem and in Romney's case, it's a big problem.
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There is nothing sacrosanct about religion .. any of them.

Intelligent people SHOULD question how much religion a candidate will inject into the lives of people who live in the real world.
 
BAN HAMMER said:
No, it does not. Cults are LOCALIZED religious movements. If Mormons are an INTERNATIONAL religious movement, they cannot, by definition, be a cult.
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What about the Moonies? One of *my* own definitions of a cult is a group that has a living leader/controller who thinks he's divine, or else thinks he alone has the keys to the afterlife (i.e. God's right-hand man). Think David Koresh, Rev. Moon or Rev. Jim Jones. I'm not saying this is the correct or dictionary definition of the word, just my observation. Which is why I asked you about the Moonies, as they are an international religious movement.
 
BAN HAMMER said:
No, it does not. Cults are LOCALIZED religious movements. If Mormons are an INTERNATIONAL religious movement, they cannot, by definition, be a cult.
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My understanding of the rods is a sect that still holds the same tenets as a denomination, but breaks off from the original orgnization.

A cult is a group who the denonimination believes has created a heresy or has strayed from the original teachings of the denomination.

It is why Evangelicals consider the Jehovah Witnesses, the Moonies and the LDS as "cults"
 
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