Politics is a big endeavor. It involves a lot of closed-door deal brokering, compromising of long-held beliefs, raising lots of money and winning the votes of the electorate. There is much more involved, of course, but you get the idea, it’s a full-time and difficult job. Many people get into politics for the right reason, [...]
Nearly all of us follow or adhere to some sort of faith or belief system. It’s what sustains us in times like 9/11 and provides us with joy during our respective holidays. It’s reflected in our values as a nation; in how we live our daily lives, how we worship, how we choose our close [...]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) was birthed in 1820 by an alleged vision in which two celestial personages appeared to Joseph Smith, claiming all existing churches were wrong, all their creeds were an abomination, and all their professors were corrupt. According to those personages, Smith had been chosen to restore (not [...]
The differences in doctrine between historic Christianity and Mormonism are distinct and radical. The doctrine of God is a good place to start. In historic Christianity, the one God is a spirit who is the personal, eternal, infinite creator of all that exists. He is the only God and necessary for all other things to [...]
President Obama’s faith journey is an artful tapestry that only God could have woven. He was born in Hawaii where there are a lot of eastern influences attributed to religion. He then lived in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, between the ages of six and 10. His dad, who left the family [...]
Despite a strong pull from some that would tear us away from the faith of our fathers, that faith still plays a strong role in our politics. Although we are decidedly and thankfully not a theocracy, we are people who rely on our faith to sustain and guide us. And much to the chagrin of [...]
Mitt Romney trotted out his big October surprise yesterday. In the form of a press release, he accused President Obama of “Planning to end Medicare as we know it” within 15 years by allowing it to go bankrupt. Once again, just as in his no individual mandate plea, Romney is just plain lying to the [...]
We are 278 days away from the November general election and the radical Republican Party is in dire straits. Their strategists seem to be inept and just not very good at what they do for a living, which is coordinating a cohesive response to President Obama and the Democratic Party. All we have to do [...]
Ron Paul has repeatedly said that he denies writing many, if not all, of his newsletters that went out, under his name, to his subscribers, supporters, and contributors, for years beginning in the 1970s. His rhetoric is extreme, racist, and dangerous. Worse yet, he has refused to publicly discuss them with the media, going so [...]
Just about all the ideas that have shaped societies up until the last 300 years were religious in nature, except for China. The first major secular ideology to make headway and last was liberalism, a doctrine first associated with a commercial class and then an industrial class in Europe in the 17th century. In its [...]
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