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find it to be the irony of all ironies that people so fear and loathe our black President, making up lies regarding his faith and background, that they’d rather vote for Mitt Romney. Particularly amusing are the actions of some conservative Christians. They so hate President Obama that they go so far as to call him the antichrist. Yet they’re perfectly willing to vote for, even blessing the candidacy of Mitt Romney. (Disclaimer – I’m a currently enrolled at LU.)
Sarah Wood of Addicting Info posts an interesting editorial of Mitt Romney’s true-life views, written by James Martin. Aside from the well-known creepiness of baptisms for the dead, historical endorsement of polygamy, and strange obsession with special underwear, there are some particularly strange allegations mentioned that even I wasn’t aware of:
Joseph Smith had a supposed vision (prophecy) that one day a Mormon would become President of the United States, FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE, of letting the Mormon Church take over the U.S. Government. You can take it to the bank, that if Romney was president, the church leaders would have another “vision” that a church takeover must happen. By the way, that prophecy was simple revenge for perceived wrongs done to Joseph Smith by the government. Nevertheless they treat all his prophecies seriously, no matter how ridiculous they are.
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Romney wants to be president to fulfill a cult prophecy. When Mitt Romney received his patriarchal blessing as a Michigan teenager, he was told that the Lord expected great things from him. All young Mormon men — the “worthy males” of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as it is officially known — receive such a blessing as they embark on their requisite journeys as religious missionaries. But at 19 years of age, the youngest son of the most prominent Mormon in American politics — a seventh-generation direct descendant of one of the faith’s founding 12 apostles—Mitt Romney had been singled out as a destined leader. The Cougar Club — the all male, all white social club at Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City (blacks were excluded from full membership in the Mormon church until 1978) — was humming with talk that its president, Mitt Romney, would become the first Mormon president of the United States. “If not Mitt, then who?” was the ubiquitous slogan within the elite organization. The pious world of BYU was expected to spawn the man who would lead the Mormons into the White House and fulfill the prophecies of the church’s founder, Joseph Smith Jr., which Romney has avidly sought to realize.
Barrack Obama espouses none of the supposed characteristics of the fabled antichrist. Only by making the broadest generalizations can one even remotely claim our President is the forebearer of the Tribulation and Armageddon. Romney, however, there’s some meat for the basement-dwelling conspiracy nut. Here we have a man who believes a highly-evolved human on an alien planet has destined him to be President. A man who believes prophecy has foretold his coming, and that he will be the one to make his faith the ruling faith of a nation. That friends, that is truly creepy. The fact that evangelicals in this nation would rather support Mitt Romney than Barrack Obama speaks volumes for the role faith actually plays in their political decision making.

