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[shakatany]

Well since Mitt Romney is still a strong contender amongst the  Rethuglicans (*g*) I thought I'd check out exactly what he supposedly believes in at The Skeptics Annotated Book of Mormon. I know it's not PC to comment on someone's religious beliefs but if the Mormons truly believe all that it just proves David Hannum's adage that "there's a sucker

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[shakatany]

To believe that people from Israel came to America around 600 BCE and found cows, horses, oxen, asses, and goats (though indeed there once were horses in America but they died out around 12,000 years ago along with the mammoths and other fauna) and supposedly planted wheat and barley though none existed here before the arrival of the Europeans is to believe in fantasy IMO. Of course if one day geneticists found Semitic DNA in the native population or ruins or remains of these early settlers, I, and others, would have to reconsider this.
I want my president to live in the factual world and be more discerning when it comes to what he believes in. Could Romney separate himself when need be from his church that, until 30 years ago, believed that black people were cursed by God and inferior? Could he deal with global warming and pollution, stem cell and other scientific research, gay rights, the transgendered, women's rights in America and the world and not follow absolutely the teachings of his church?
At the moment it's moot as Romney has left the race but after the havoc Dubya and his fellow religious conservatives have wrought, America in the 21st century truly needs someone who firmly believes in the separation of church and state (I don't like Huckabee either).

Shakatany