<p>How low of him to smear Romney for being Mormon, and intentionally perpetuate false myths about the LDS church. No way would a pastor be that ignorant of another religion’s beliefs. And, if he truly were ignorant, he should not have said anything at all, rather than say something false. Which proves he KNEW it was false and did it only to smear Romney.</p>
<p>I did think that Lucifer in the bible is a fallen angel isn’t he?
I haven’t read the Book of Mormon though ( ohgodno)
I do know that they believe that God lives on another planet- which strikes me as fairly creative.
Bsides what is the difference between a cult or a religion?</p>
<p>That whole wide-eyed disingenuousness thing is getting on my last nerve. I’m not a particular Romney supporter, either, but in defense of Mormonism, I’m Moravian, which is incredibly mainstream, and we believe that all creatures are God’s children and therefore refer to each other as “brother” and “sister” so Lucifer would be Jesus’ brother.</p>
<p>What do you think of Clinton supporters’ “concern” about Obama’s past drug use?</p>
<p>I have read the entire Book of Mormon, twice. I was bored in a hotel room with a choice between the Bible and the Book of Mormon. I’ve read most of the Bible, too.</p>
<p>I am a practicing atheist. But the god I don’t believe in is a kind and benevolent god. For that reason, I am also a member of the Unitarian church.</p>
<p>A friend recently made this remark:</p>
<p>“These people who are saying ‘god has given me so much’ about the recent floods and the people who came and helped them—if my god gave me floods like that, I’d move and leave no forwarding address.”</p>
<p>Yeah, zoosermom, I’m with you on the fake tone of innocence. It’s getting on my nerves.</p>
<p>Frankly, I don’t think there’s much of a difference between cults and religions either, but most religious people would rear up in anger if accused of being in a cult. Weird.</p>
<p>Yeah me too. Slimey. She should be applauding Obama for admitting he inhaled when Bill didn’t have the b***s to admit it. Then again, some time has passed since then, and Obama can admit it now partly because Bill PARTIALLY admitted it then. Which is all the more reason this should not be a divisive issue and she should not be attacking Obama on account of it. Wrong battle to pick.</p>
<p>Meh. Not my theological cup of tea, but I don’t really see why it should matter in choosing a President. IMO though, Romney has been pretty open in dissing atheists and the like for political gain, so its hard to feel too sympathetic when that same intolerance turns around and bites him in the butt.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link. I didn’t know that but still, I agree it was low because it is just a random tidbit of religious trivia, and, taken without the proper explanation and context, will leave a decidedly negative image in non-Mormons’ minds.</p>
<p>Good point about Romney essentially doing the same thing towards atheists.</p>
<p>So I guess what goes around comes around.</p>
<p>Still, being that Huckabee is a pastor, you’d think that you could expect him to be a little less corrupt than the rest. Ya know, take the high road.</p>
<p>And why would you expect a Baptist minister to know less than some other kind of minister about any other religion?
Or IOW, why didn’t you state your question thusly “Why would you expect a minister of any mainstream Christian denomination to know anything about any other religion?” Is it the “Baptist” part that produces the understandable ignorance? ;)</p>
<p>I grew up attending a Baptist church and, with one exception, found that the ministers knew precious little about other religions. In fact, that is being charitable. Most of them were woefully misinformed. I have no idea whether they know less than other ministers, but I do not find it surprising that Huckabee would know very little about other religions.</p>
<p>Well, I’m glad you’re honest about your closed-mindedness when it comes to Baptists. I can assure you they come in all different stripes, IMO just like all other denominations. And some of those stripes are quite knowledgeable about other religions. I have met with and taken classes from some very interesting Baptist religious scholars. Some of them I’m sure would surprise you both in their personal views of the Baptist tradition and the breadth of their knowledge about other traditions.</p>
<p>Curm, to reply to your edit, my experience has only been in the Baptist church - a Southern Baptist Church to be precise. I see in Huckabee some of what I witnessed in that church. I grew up with the vague sense that Mormonism was some sort of cult. The extent of my knowledge of Jews was that they killed Jesus and they were not going anyplace good after death. Catholics worshipped Mary. There must have been something particularly bad about Catholics because whatever they did, the Baptists did the opposite. I’m not sure we even liked the Methodists. On some level, even as a kid, I knew that this narrow picture of religion couldn’t be right, but it took leaving that community to really see how much misinformation there was about other religions.</p>
<p>Well he knew enough to cite a bit of religious trivia out of context. He CLAIMED to know little, but then contradicted himself. His ‘innocence’ was obviously fake and it was very calculated.</p>
<p>I recognize that there are very well educated Baptists ministers. The experience of attending a Baptist church where I live now could not be more different than my childhood experience. Those experiences, however, tell me that it should be no surprise that Huckabee doesn’t have a great understanding of other religions. He may really be as ignorant about Mormonism as he appears.</p>