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In reply to the discussion: Why I think Mitt Romney is running for President. [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)72. If you accept the basic Existential proposition that Kierkegaard and other Christian Theologians
have accepted that all religious faith finally cannot be achieved by reason alone and involves a 'leap of faith' it doesn't then mean that you have to accept that all 'leaps' are equal.
A small creek requires someone to step over it but that doesn't put it in the same class as the Grand Canyon.
Ultimately this is what angers Evangelicals, even thoughtful liberal Evangelicals, about Joseph Smith and his followers. If you put all religions into the same basket of epistomological malpractice that the Mormons committ then it just undermines the public perception of their faith.
It's one thing to say that your religious faith cannot be ultimately proved by reason, it is an entirely different proposition to have a wild story that is hostile to reason.
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I would welcome some action by Obama that is "socialist or latent Communist"...
immoderate
Mar 2012
#35
This seems to mesh pretty well with a Salon column on Romney and the White Horse prophecy:
highplainsdem
Mar 2012
#11
This is fascintating and frightening. He really doesn't seem to give a fuck about
Guy Whitey Corngood
Mar 2012
#14
I studied at Princeton Seminary and learned to read the Bible in Greek and Hebrew
grantcart
Mar 2012
#39
just so we are clear, you're saying you want mitt to win over obama?
La Lioness Priyanka
Mar 2012
#60
I think he's there to keep the campaign going until the real nominee shows up.
BlueIris
Mar 2012
#64
That's what I thought but there are no whispers about it and they would have started the
grantcart
Mar 2012
#85
And even if you accept the "weirdness" - as any religion could probably be described as such
TBF
Mar 2012
#70
If you accept the basic Existential proposition that Kierkegaard and other Christian Theologians
grantcart
Mar 2012
#72
You stole this from Mein Kampf and switched jews for mormons didn't you ?
The Straight Story
Mar 2012
#71