2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum“I had no idea that people lived like that,”
Romneys first weeks as bishop shook that certitude. After a spate of counseling sessions with members suffering financial problems, he came into one meeting of his senior advisers shaking his head.
I had no idea that people lived like that, Romney said, according to Phil Barlow, one of his counselors.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-as-a-leader-in-mormon-church-became-a-master-of-many-keys/2012/08/19/7c8fe1bc-cf89-11e1-8e56-dffbfbe1bd20_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics&wp_login_redirect=0
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)rox63
(9,464 posts)Too bad that doesn't seem to have happened.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)enough to shame most other religions! But that gives them a limited view of the role of government.
FSogol
(45,555 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)I was floored at that statement. I thought this was strange:
The term is a reference to a passage in the Book of Mormon in which Lehi, a prophet who leads his Israelite tribe out of Jerusalem and to the Americas, dreams of an iron rod along a straight and narrow path. In Mormon parlance, iron-rodders are certain that prophetic revelation and scriptural instruction such as the Word of Wisdom, which proscribes the use of wine, tobacco and hot drinks, will lead them toward a righteous life and, eventually, godhood.
ProgressiveEconomist
(5,818 posts)sadbear
(4,340 posts)It depends on which Mormon you ask.