Posted by
Cindy on Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:11:06 PM
I am not writing this to tear down anyones church or beliefs but simply to expose Mr. Romney for the disingenuous person that he is. I have struggled about whether I should somehow respond to Mr. Romney and His Church for their response to questions that have come up about his religion and I have decided that to be silent would make me complicit in the lie.
As a former member of the LDS church,
who served and worshiped as a member in good standing with a temple
recommend, very important in the LDS church, I need to let you know
that Mitt Romney is dishonest in the worst way. He has lied about
his own faith in order to make it palatable for others who have
questioned the LDS church and its beliefs. If a man will lie about
the governing beliefs of his faith to make it more palatable, what
else will he lie about to make his real positions and core values
more palatable? A very viable question that needs to be addressed.
This is not about religion or whether the questions should have been
asked, but about what we do when it is asked and answered
dishonestly.
Like all LDS faithful I believed and
accepted that Satan was the literal spirit son of God as was Jesus
and each of us, that Satan and a 3rd of the host fell and
that Jesus was the one with the plan. We all have to be born into a
physical body in this world and embrace the one true church, the LDS
church in order to enjoy eternity in the celestial kingdom with God
and Jesus and to have the opportunity to be the Gods of our own world
one day.
Romney and the LDS church couched their
responses to questions about the LDS faith in terms that would make
it palatable to those who don't know better and are evangelical or
Catholic Christians.
Again I ask, “if a man cannot answer
honestly about the core beliefs of his faith how can we trust him to
answer honestly to anything?
He does have an impressive record as a
flip flopper but wants us all to accept that what he tells us now
about his position is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the
truth. Is it really Mr. Romney or is it just what you think we want
to hear?