Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Mike Huckabee asks: “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?”
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has once again gone out of his way to say something incredibly stupid. This time it’s about the Mormon faith. In an upcoming article to be published in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Huckabee reportedly asks the question to the reporter interviewing him for the magazine. They had been discussing fellow presidential hopeful Mitt Romney who is Mormon.
Huckabee is pretending is was a simple question about something he didn’t understand taken totally out of context. I’m not buying it. Mike Huckabee should know a thing or two about the Mormon religion. He is an ordained Southern Baptist minister. He received a B.A. in theology from Ouachita Baptist University in 1975 and an M.A. in theology from Southwestern Baptist Theology Seminary in 1980. If there is one thing this man should know, it’s about religion.
The Mormon faith is a major religion in this county. Wikipedia says that there are over 6.7 million Mormons in this county. How can a man that holds two degrees in religion pretend to be so dense about another religion that he could pose such a crass and ridiculous question? He needs to treat Mormonism with as much respect as he would like others to show his own particular faith. I would think a theologian would know that.
Mike Huckabee is an idiot.
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From my experience in the fundamentalist church (I spent eight years as a brainwashee), most fundamentalists view the Mormon faith as a cult - literally, a scary, scary cult. Our church gave workshops on how to deal with the Mormons that came calling at home, so we would know how to avoid their brainwashing rhetoric.
Kind of ironic, isn’t it?
Golden Plates.
The fact of the matter is the Mike Huckabee is correct, unless, of course, the Mormons have changed their theology again. The Mormons believe that Jesus and Lucifer are spririt brothers and that the reason why Jesus is Savior and Lucifer is not is that the Father chose Jesus’ plan of salvation over Lucifer’s.
Spirit brothers? Schooly and I are Spirit brothers.
It’s true. But which one of us is Satan and which one of us is Jesus?