"Faith in America" by Mitt Romney

[Ipostle]

If you ask him anything about his religion he tells you to ask his 'church'. He said the Jew's ancient religion hasn't changed through the ages? Are they still offering animal sacrifices? Even if you think we shouldn't mix religion w/politics shouldn't we be aware that Romney's belief system stems from a modern day 'prophet' who has added to our own Bible his own inspired law? I think it's fair to know what's going on in our future leader's head.

[verzen]

Romney is an idiot. Atheists do not have religion and we do believe in freedom. Religion are simply shackles that hold people down.

[hittman6]

He's taking the second m out of Mormon.

[moulingalette]

'Freedom requires religion.' That's why the 1960's San Fransisco hippies, probably the most 'free' people in America at that time, were so religious. Give me a break with your religious BS.

[dudeonthasopha]

this is horrible.. separation of church and state not only gives us freedom of religion but freedom from religion. people can have the morals and be free without any belief in God. the fact is religion likes to halt scientific progression and deny people rights.. you can claim your religion won't interfere with politics but if your religious its in every aspect of your life.

[ShaftInAfrica920]

lol FUCK RELIGION

FUCK RELIGION

FUCK RELIGION

[oneguycoding]

Freedom doesn't not require religion. Religious leaders require religion. churches require religion. Governments don't require religion.

[omiolo]

wonderful speech, I wish all people running for President followed the tenants of this speech.

[frellthat]

Freedom requires religion and religion requires freedom? I can think of a lot of places in the world where religion has destroyed freedom. o_O

"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

[foonirvana12]

that quote is sadly absolutely right religion is WRONG, God despises religion, having faith and developing a personal relationship with Jesus is the right way to live, i would never have faith in America, that just sounds retarded

[mjarmstrong]

God despises religion? Jesus is his son, and hes spent thousands of years trying to tell people of that religion. religion is having faith in christ. and faith was how america started. Jon adams said so.

[foonirvana12]

God absolutely despises religion, it's something made by man, it's practices that can lead to worshiping an idol, if you read mathew, the pharisees (religious leaders) killed Jesus, they were jealous of his powerful faith and connection with God, and throughout all of mathew, mark, luke and john the religious leaders try and prove that Jesus is not the son of God, but Jesus knew exactly how they thought, religion destroys that relationship with god, that's why we have so many dead churches today

[mydodgers1]

How many millions of Chinese Cambodia Russsian have been killed that had no faith?

[BandAids4u]

religion IS a private affair. that's why muslims who pray on planes are told to get off, and why churches don't recieve federal funding.

[1sanevoice]

Self serving (of course), unnecessary speech, propped up by quoting our fore fathers, repeating historic events, stating the obvious, informing us that he visited Europe.

This could just have well have been a life sized cardboard cut-out of Romney with a tape playing.

A lot of pizazz.

Not much substance.

[BboyMindless]

For those of you that are mormons and want Mitt Romney to win... Mitt Romney is hardly mormon. When a mormon is baptized, they make a covenant with their god that they will use everything in their power to further the faith, putting it above all else. Romney states that he puts the constitution above god in his presidency. This is not following the faith. In addition, one of the big principles of mormonism is free agency. What about "Freedom requires religion!" advocates tolerance???

[PakarRhoy]

Romney didn't say that. He said that he will not enforce Mormonism onto America. He is doing his part in the gospel by attempting to stop this plague known as secularism, where religion is being kicked out of any public affair. There is a difference between religion being forced onto others and religion being a public(not private) affair.

[BboyMindless]

But isn't saying secularism is a "plague", or just saying its flat out wrong (as Romney did), being intolerant? Certainly, anyone who has any knowledge of how the brain works knows that altruism (morality) is as basic a desire as food and sex. (The same part of the brain lights up on an ECG for all three of those). There is no correlation with secularism and immorality. The only thing religion is useful for is creating existential hope.

[PakarRhoy]

*sigh* I see. If you believe that, there is no way to persuade you. You win.

[BboyMindless]

Freedom requires religion? What an strange thing to assess. Granted, religion does give some people existential hope, but freedom?? No.

[torden48]

Obviously, your definition of freedom differs from those who feel in their mind that they are not bound by the chains or influences of the world around them, and that no matter what happens to them they will ultimately be lifted up to a place of true peace and tranquility. It is a nice feeling. If you chose not to beleive that, you are free to do so.

[hoopty31]

listen to the end at 9:37

that i think is the most important point any candidate has made in this election and that is the true spirit of seperation of church and state which is so important today

[Shavarnarak]

Freedom requires religion?

Freedom requires religion about as much as I require a burst appendix!

Someone really needs to cut the goddamn religious fundies out of power already.

[boyofdestiny2]

I'm sure that you'll find no official LDS political benefactors

[Shavarnarak]

Well the mormon cult is not known for being honest about where it gets its considerable funds from.

Although personally all these candidates showing how pious they are no matter which sect they belong to is pretty annoying.

Freedom requires religion to be on as short a leash as possible if you ask me.

[thepitburns]

Mormonism is not a cult, and the way Mormons get their funds is the people of the church who pay their tithing. are you evangellical christian or something

[alliegot]

thank you... The fact that this guy is getting all these left wing communist pigs all stirred up gives me great hope. President Romney will be our next best after Reagan

[dollkrazi]

I honestly can't believe all the false things that are being said of my church. Something new every day. Where DO you people get your facts? If you really want to know about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (by the way, did you notice the church is named after JESUS CHRIST?) Not Christian? Oh, yes we are! Anyway, ask a missionary. It's that simple.

[ldsgirl1]

As Romney said, ´So judge my faith not by how different the theology may be one point or another, but whether it has made me and my family and perhaps others in my faith better people´.

[ldsgirl1]

He also said something similar:¨

" To understand my faith, look at me and my home and how we live...(B)ut what my church teaches is evidence of what I have become and what my family has become. I am a better person than what I would have been".

These are the ways that people shoukd judge Mormons, not by rumors of our theology!

[jen472]

GOOGLE RON PAUL!

[kmardes]

yes, they SHOULD be barred from the presidency because of their faith because it inevitably affects their decions and its dangerous. we need an atheist!!

[lrvives]

It had been a long long long time (I think since Reagan), that I did not hear a speech so great as this.

[loosershate]

Mitt, Huckabee does not have what it takes to you what he REALLY thinks of Mormonism. It would cause a spiritual warfare in our own country. The God of the Bible is not the same as one of the Mormon gods. The Latter Day Saints use the name of Jesus Christ, but Mormon beliefs are VERY far from Huckabee's Christian beliefs. Can either of these Republican Bigots be true followers of Jesus Christ if they openly lie about their supposed faith?

[FormerMALiberal]

Romney is AMAZING!!! Wow, he's so articulate and clean!! Haha!! Romney 08!

[RossProspekt]

Oh, you won't get in office Romney you stupid prick.

[SiaraMarie2]

Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo announced Thursday that he is dropping out of the race, and that he will endorse rival Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination.

[Dylanshreds1]

You freaking idiot, Adams and Lincoln were atheists. What about Buddhists? They don't believe in a god.

[loosershate]

Wasn't John Adams a cross dresser? Or was that Hoover?

[flyingdrake]

hoover. though it should be stated that adams was hardly a popular president, best known for the Sedition Acts(jailed people for critism of the government). Anyway quoting Adams on religion is a little bizarre considering that he was a Unitarian. According to at least one biographer, he didn't have deistic inclinations personally though he used deistic language in speeches.

[flyingdrake]

Anyway, when the founding fathers spoke about god, they generally meant it in a deistic vague sense, they were not talking about Yahweh/Jehovah/Elohim

[mjarmstrong]

What? Those are the names of God, what other one would they talk about? God is not a vague statment.

[oneguycoding]

Right, God is a metaphor. Sheesh, get with it people.

[beingisbecoming4]

Do you want to know why Ron Paul is not #1 in the polls?

/watch?v=VSYiUAaBd1U

[dan24603267]

i think we may need some sort of god to save

us from these brain dead wankers ,

you are being led like blind sheep .amen amen;

fuck all the gods ,yours and theirs

evil fucking religion,

[FukYoMomma]

Learn the truth about what Mitt Romney believes.

Google the "Law of Eternal Progression."

Anyone who gives me the thumbs down does so because he or she fears that you will learn the truth.

Google the "Law of Eternal Progression" to discover what Mormons really believe about God.

[bubbabean69]

ladies ask mitt romeny if he believes that his prophet joseph smith was right in taking 30+ wives a couple as young as 14?? ladies do you think those young girls felt abused? and this is a man that romney sees as a prophet?

[Bbenbb]

What the crap does this have to do with anything even if it were true, which it isn't?

Please leave with your bigotry or I'll start editing out your hateful comments. People are quite capable of finding info on mormonism on their own. Watch this video again, it may be possible you'll learn something.

[EscapeNewJersey]

Genisis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

God translated from Hewbrew word 'elohiym el-o-heem' plural

1. gods

3. judges

4. angels

Look it up or ask a Rabbi

[bubbabean69]

mormons believe that god was once a man

mormons believe that jesus is lucifers brother

mormons believe in baptism for the dead

mormons believe in an adulter prophet joseph smith

mormons believe in polygamy

mormons believe they can reach god status

[EscapeNewJersey]

Psalms. 82: 6 6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

John 10:34 34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

Read the bible bubbabean69, Mormons Do!

[schmarcie]

NJ

Psalm 82:7-8

But you will die like mere men

you will fall like every other ruler

Rise up O God judge the earth

for all the nations are your inheritance

The moral of the psalm

However exalted their position these corrupt "gods" will be brought low by the same judgement as other men fall

[EscapeNewJersey]

Revelation 3:12

12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

Again read the Bible bubbabean69

[schmarcie]

Christ's new name symbolizes all that he is by virture of his redemptive work for mankind. This awaits the 2nd advent.

[EscapeNewJersey]

Strongs Hebrew Lexicon:

430 'elohiym el-o-heem' plural of 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:--angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.

[thepitburns]

Joseph Smith is not an adulterer

yes you can reach god state

polygamy is outdated

you can have more than one wife if you can support them all

so don't start thinking you know the Mormon religion when you arent a Mormon

[mjarmstrong]

I'm pretty sure polygamy is no longer practiced by mormons.

[oneguycoding]

I think you might want to research that, because you're wrong.

[mjarmstrong]

No, Mormons stopped polygamy over a hundred years ago. There is a break off of the religion that still practices, but it is no longer taught by the leadres.

[srgriffith]

Momons say, "We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may."

[srgriffith]

By there fruits ye shall know them.

Mormons donate more to charity per captia than ANY other religion. They live longer than population average. They acheive higher level of education than national average. They don't drink, smoke, or swear. They are also usually the first to arrive at the scene of a natural disaster to aid those in need. Many serve for two years volunteering in orphanages, hospitals, schools. Or working with other Christian humanitarian aid organizations.

[GR0ND]

A vote for Romney is little different from voting for a Scientologist.

[srgriffith]

Anybody who hates somebody or refuses to vote for somebody based on that persons sex, race, or faith is a bigot.

[GR0ND]

So you would vote for an agnostic? An atheist? A Satanist? Candidates personal beliefs do matter. I'd happily vote for an atheist, but even though I don't believe in Gods or demons, I'd have reservations about a Satanist. Would you? I get the impression rommey's cool with you because you are a Morman. I wonder how you'd be with another "fringe" religion.

[flyingdrake]

what sort of satanist? this sounds silly but there's a big difference between LeVay satanism and a theistic worship of satan. LeVay satanism is basically 'dark' objectivism (not that i'd vote for an objectivist).

[GR0ND]

I must admit I'm not familiar with the various sects of Satanism (as logically there must be, like the various sects of christianity). The point to srgriffith though, was that belief systems do play a part in our voting choices. Romney's beliefs (especially concerning evolution) would disqualify him as a viable candidate, to me at least.

[flyingdrake]

is romney a creationist too? i thought it was huckabee & ron paul.

[Chompy1452]

I'm sorry, but I fail to recognize the correlation between liberty and the adherence to some authoritarian dogma, but maybe it's just me.

[JimLloyd49]

Freedom doesn't require religion, most of europe is secular yet most european countries have democracy and freedom of spech.

[JDigital08]

"Romney did a good job. I Don't care that he's Mormon. I trust he will make sound decisions."

I agree full heartedly. He will make a wonderful President.

[flyingdrake]

:P he only addresses abrahamic faiths. he doesn't address polytheistic, non-deistic, or non-religious people. neither morality nor freedom require faith.

religion IS a private affair, when did this change?? the bible advoactes provate faith.

nativity scenes and menorahs are welcome, so long as other groups can display there TOO.

[PakarRhoy]

It's people like you who uphold the myth of separation of church and state. Religion is NOT a private affair. And while some may argue freedom doesn't require faith, I can tell you without a doubt morals require some religious background. Otherwise, they are nice things you can do to others, but you can live to make yourself better off.

[BboyMindless]

Are you telling me that the only reason why you do good things, or why anyone else does good things, is because your/their god tells you/them to? Do you really not murder someone you are angry at simply because god tells you not to? Or do you have an altruistic feeling that compels you not to? Certainly, I hope the latter. THAT, my friend, is the brains' built in altruistic reaction. It is where empathy comes from, the basis for all morality.

[BboyMindless]

I am athiest, and the reason why I don't run around killing is because I cannot imagine imposing such a horrible thing on another human being. It is called empathy. Altruism. Proven to be in the same basic brain function category as hunger and sex drives.

[torden48]

Hey mindless. I am a baptist. I thought his speech on religion was very well done and no other candidate except maybe obama could have pulled that off in such an eloquent manner. You shouldn't trust that brain research you are basing your belief on. The brain is the least understood organ in the human body. It seems from the beginning science has changed more than religion.

[flyingdrake]

... science is SUPPOSED to change. science advances by throwing out previous theories when there is new and compelling evidence that the proposed model didn't work. models/theories/laws are ways to explain to ourselves what it was that was observed, and a given paradigm lasts as long as it is able to explain the observations.

[flyingdrake]

The brain is not completely unknowable, so don't throw out the baby(what we know) with the bathwater(what we don't). You can't ignore all of neuroscience and psychology.

point of fact religion does change, early christianity isn't like modern christianity, or to use a more recent example the southern baptists at one time ordained women and now they don't.

[BboyMindless]

well said. well said

[Lavenna]

WOW! This is why I'm voting for Mitt. He isn't afraid to let his religion be known and will stand by it, he shows tolerance for other religions, and says he will not allow it to hinder his decisions to the American people. I'm not mormon, but I AM for Romney!

[zippy980]

This is a great speech!

[zippy980]

Great Speech!!!

[nbwilson56]

Romney did a good job. I Don't care that he's Mormon. I trust he will make sound decisions.

[MexicansforMike]

romney is a racist,vote huckabee he is for mexico and is pro israel

[resanime]

Freedom requires which religion? When the Hindu cleric offered the prayer in the Senate, all the fools disappeared. So much for freedom of religion.

[humantetris]

This free 10 minute commercial for the Romney Campaign is brought to you by Fox News.

[sm3llyc4t]

Yeah.. the Fox News logo is there in the corner. Thanks so much for pointing that out. Now I know to cover my ears and go La-La-La-La so as not to be indoctrinated.

Sheesh you're a nut. I had thought Bernine Goldberg was joking when he spoke about "Fox News Derangement Syndrome" but now I'm starting to wonder...

[EscapeNewJersey]

It was on every news network