Dear Elder Romney, smoke much pot do you?

"Let me, uh, let me offer just a thought. And that is, uh, one of the great things about this great land, is we have people of different faiths and different persuasions. And uh, I'm convinced that the nation, that the nation does need, the nation does need to have people of different faiths but we need to have a person of faith lead the country."

Mitt Romney is pissed at Mike Huckabee because Rev. Mike is attacking Romney's religion. Romney believes that as along as a candidate has a religion, that religion should not be considered critically prior to his successful journey to the presidency. The problem as that while Romney thinks it would be okay to attack the beliefs of a person not subscribing to traditional relgious dogma, he wants his religion to remain as unscuffed as his holy underwear. This is absurd.

I've been raised in and spent plenty of time by choice in the Catholic Church. These days I've started considering the absurdity of what is most of Christianity. Drinking my Peppermint Mocha at Starbucks right now, I should be preparing for the celebration of a virgin birth of a Jew to a 13 year old girl in a manger among talking animals. 30 years later, I'm to believe this man cheats death, walks the Earth for 40 more days, and somehow saved my life, eventhough I'll still die anyway. (If God wants us to live eternally in Heaven, why not here on Earth with all my friends and SCUBA equipment?)

And while this is all pretty lame, do you know what Mormon's believe?

• That God wasn't born God, but got that way through some hard work.
• That God is married.
• That if you are a good human, and work hard -- and certainly tithe -- then you can become a god in the afterlife.
• That you existed before your body as a spirit.
• When you are a god, you can make little body-less spirits, too.
• That Jesus volunteered for service back when he was a body-less spirit. Mostly because he was willing to follow God's plan, while Satan, Jesus' spirit brother had some ideas of his own. (ed: How very anti-entrepreneurial!)
• That the LDS church is the only "true church on Earth." (ed: Sorry, 1 billion Catholics.)
• That it took God about 1800 years after Christ to finally get around to telling someone in the world that all the other churches were wrong. (ed: He creates the world in 6 days, but takes 1800 years to tell the people they are on the wrong track.)
• That God and Jesus both visited Joseph Smith personally to tell him how screwed up we all are.
• That Adam, who may have been God at some time, once chose to live in Missouri. (ed: No doubt in a 3,000 square foot tract house nearby a Wal Mart.)
• That the Book of Mormon, "the most true book ever written," was given to Smith on tablets by an angel, written in a foreign, unrecognizable language, but Smith used special stones to translate it.

I could go on, but that Peppermint Mocha I just finished is dying to come out...

All this is to say that just because you call it a "religion" doesn't mean its any different from the mumbling ramblings of a crazy homeless man.

Sources:
http://dearelder.com/index/inc_name/Mormon/title2/What_Do_Mormons_Believe
http://www.allaboutcults.org/what-do-mormons-believe.htm
http://www.gotquestions.org/Mormons.html
http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/faq/
http://www.shiblon.com/beliefs/what-do-mormons-believe.php