COLUMN: 11-28-2007
Religion is in the news lately but, as usual, it's not coming up in good ways.
In the arena of the American presidential campaign, it's once again former Governor Mitt Romney telling everyone that he believes in God, Jesus, and Christian values. His continual repeating of these statements hasn't convinced the majority of Americans who recognize the cultist aspects of Mormonism that have not eroded despite it's enormous growth over the past century. Mormons still believe in God in ways that are not acceptable to anyone following the mainstream monotheistic faiths, such as believing that God was a human who "evolved" to become the god of this planet and that Mormons can similarly "evolve" to become gods of their own planets. They also try to whitewash all of the obvious "con-man" activities of their religion's founder by making statements like "if the fruit is good, that proves that root is good". I agree that most Mormons I've met are some of the best, clean-living people around, but that doesn't excuse their belief in a completely illogical system that is contrary to every bit of human reason and logic. The only way a Mormon will become the President of the USA is by America becoming a completely secular nation where it's citizens actions are not at all guided by their faiths and we are thankfully very far from that day.
In the arena of world politics, a dictatorial regime is once again abusing religion to distract people from their own failures as a government. Just as the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were exaggerated and used to whip up public sentiment against Europe in the mostly tyrannical regimes in the Muslim world, the Sudanese government is trying to do the same thing with a ridiculous assertion that a British schoolteacher insulted Islam by naming a teddy bear Muhammad. It was actually her students who named the bear after one of their classmates and no western media source should repeat the propaganda of the authoritarian regime in Khartoum and allow them to distract people from the genocide in Darfur or any of the other horrible acts inflicted on their own people.
In the arena of the American presidential campaign, it's once again former Governor Mitt Romney telling everyone that he believes in God, Jesus, and Christian values. His continual repeating of these statements hasn't convinced the majority of Americans who recognize the cultist aspects of Mormonism that have not eroded despite it's enormous growth over the past century. Mormons still believe in God in ways that are not acceptable to anyone following the mainstream monotheistic faiths, such as believing that God was a human who "evolved" to become the god of this planet and that Mormons can similarly "evolve" to become gods of their own planets. They also try to whitewash all of the obvious "con-man" activities of their religion's founder by making statements like "if the fruit is good, that proves that root is good". I agree that most Mormons I've met are some of the best, clean-living people around, but that doesn't excuse their belief in a completely illogical system that is contrary to every bit of human reason and logic. The only way a Mormon will become the President of the USA is by America becoming a completely secular nation where it's citizens actions are not at all guided by their faiths and we are thankfully very far from that day.
In the arena of world politics, a dictatorial regime is once again abusing religion to distract people from their own failures as a government. Just as the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were exaggerated and used to whip up public sentiment against Europe in the mostly tyrannical regimes in the Muslim world, the Sudanese government is trying to do the same thing with a ridiculous assertion that a British schoolteacher insulted Islam by naming a teddy bear Muhammad. It was actually her students who named the bear after one of their classmates and no western media source should repeat the propaganda of the authoritarian regime in Khartoum and allow them to distract people from the genocide in Darfur or any of the other horrible acts inflicted on their own people.
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