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this article was posted today... http://www.examiner.com/article/might-the-white-horse-prophecy-affect-the-u-s-presidential-election
August 28, 2012
By: Bob Thiel
The Republican convention is trying to get going despite Hurricane Isaac, yet there is another potential storm brewing. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is a lay priest, and former bishop, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS), a group commonly referred to as Mormons.
Why might this cause some type of storm?
Well, other than the fact that this group is considered outside of the mainstream but the vast majority of Americans, within its history is an interesting prophecy that some have wondered may have applicability with Mitt Romney.
Other than the fact that Mitt Romney is a member of the LDS church, there are other reasons that Mormons are often quite interested in him possibly becoming the President of the United States:
Mitt is a high priest in the Church priesthood hierarchy
the White Horse Prophecy or the prophecy of the One mighty and strong. Now, this is not public, formal LDS doctrine, but it was taught by many leaders of the Church and is still taught today. It is said by LDS leadership that when the Constitution is in dire peril, one will come who is mighty and strong. He will come riding (figuratively perhaps) on a white horse and will wield awesome political and spiritual power.
more: http://www.examiner.com/article/might-the-white-horse-prophecy-affect-the-u-s-presidential-election
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Is that in this mix too?
grasswire
(50,130 posts)I need to bone up on this mumbojumbo.
sad sally
(2,627 posts)But a dichotomy exists within the Mormon Church, which holds that one is either in or out; there is little or no tolerance for those, like so-called cafeteria Catholics, who pick and choose what doctrines to follow. And in Mormonism, if one is in, a lot is expected, including tithing 10 percent of ones income, participating regularly in church activities, meeting high moral expectations, and accepting Mormon doctrineincluding many concepts, such as the belief that Jesus will rule from Missouri in his Second Coming, that run counter to those of other Christian faiths. That rigidity can be difficult to abide for those who love the faith but chafe at its strictures or question its teachings and cultural habits. For one, Mormonism is male-dominatedwomen can serve only in certain leadership roles and never as bishops or stake presidents. The church also makes a number of firm value judgments, typically prohibiting single or divorced men from leading wards and stakes, for example, and not looking kindly upon single parenthood.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/02/mitt-romney-201202
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)CrispyQ
(36,539 posts)Welcome!
TrogL
(32,822 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)dug up ancient golden plates written in a language exclusive to them, that claimed to be the "true and only" revelation of God where the only people who are "saved" are the ones baptized into this 'religion' (either pre or post death), then this "prophecy" may mean something.
To the sane in this world, it is the ramblings of a con artist.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)I have no problem believing a dude could turn water into wine, cure leprosy and blindness with his hands, and rise from the dead, but a guy with golden plates and a secret language is asking too much.
patrice
(47,992 posts)we are to take this "defense" of the Constitution to be to revert it back to its original form, including legal slavery and no Bill of Rights.
MagickMuffin
(15,962 posts)Perhaps he can come into battle dancing the night away
grasswire
(50,130 posts)BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)and killed it...
Amaril
(1,267 posts).........or whatever the onomatopoeia is for doing this ---> <--- with yogurt instead of coffee.
librechik
(30,677 posts)with this crowd it would work.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Told ya so.
FreeState
(10,585 posts)(not the OP but the article spelled it wrong - they must have done a lot of research! /sarcasm)
d_r
(6,907 posts)I think that this is a serious thing.
I think that Bishop Romney believes he is fulfilling prophecy.
I think that evangelical christians do not understand that. They are thinking of sharing the same values (anti-gay marriage, abortion, etc.) and are not thinking about a mormon coming in and running the USA like it was salt lake city.
I think that they need to hear about it, I think they would be concerned with books that extend the story of Jesus beyond what is in the bible, that Romney thanks he will be God on his own planet, etc. I don't think it hurts to tie the morman riding a white horse prophecy to the anti-christ riding the white horse in revelations in their minds.
These people love forwarding e-mails that say crazy things. I hope they start sending them.
Most Mormans are good folks so nobody wants to go there.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Mittens certainly doesn't fit that prophecy. One who is mighty and strong? Certainly doesn't fit a guy who flip, flops and bends to the wind.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)Someone in the 1840s says the survival of the constitution will be tested.
Well, duh.
Everyone knew it would be tested, and it was. It's called the Civil War. The intrinsic strains were well apparent to all observers throughout the mid-1800s, including Joseph Smith.