Marion council member Craig Adamson: ‘Mormonism is a cult’ December 14, 2007
Posted by John in IowaCaucuses, Political, Religion.Tags: 2008 election, ABC NEWS Political Punch blog, Christianity, Craig Adamson, Iowa Caucus Cooler blog, iowa caucuses, Linn County Iowa, Marion (Iowa), Marion City Council, mike huckabee, mitt romney, Mormonism
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From “Political Punch” ABC NEWS blog:
In Marion, Iowa, City Councilman Craig Adamson — a registered Republicans who considers himself a supporter of Mike Huckabee — sent out an email asserting that if “you think religion, especially Christianity, is being marginalized by ACLU and other organizations” then “you would be piling on” if you vote for Mitt Romney because “Mormonism is a cult. In case I didn’t type it clearly enough … Mormonism is a cult.”
As first reported on the Iowa Caucus Cooler blog, Adamson wrote that “based on my knowledge of Mormonism, I would not trust him as my president as he might be fooled into believing most anything. How could he possibly be trusted to negotiate with Islamic radicals? He might believe Muslim and Mormons are the same, just like he tries to pass off Mormons as Christians.”
Adamson sent the email to a friend who had invited him to a Romney event, hitting “reply all.” …
UPDATE: Marion man stands by e-mail missive criticizing Mormonism (GazetteOnline, 12/20)
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Adamson is the fool. He says: “based on my knowledge of Mormonism —”. He obviously has no knowledge at all of Mormon beliefs.
I am a Methodist, not a Mormon, but I am very concerned that any person with Adamson’s mental inclination has any part in my city government’s decisions, or in my political party.
I live in Marion and I am less and less impressed by the leadership in this town. What a jerk! Maybe Romney considers Adamson’s religion a cult. This is exactly what is bringing America down…not to mention Marion.
I was raised in the Mormon church but am no longer a practicing Mormon. I am appalled by the ramblings of Mr. Adamson. His statements couldn’t be further from the truth. As a member of city government he should remember to keep an open mind and to not judge someone based upon their religious beliefs. Perhaps if Mr. Adamson would attend a Mormon service on any given Sunday he would find that there is very little difference between Mormonism and any other Christian service. RESIGN, we don’t need ignorant, uninformed people making decisions on behalf of our city residents.
This man sounds ingorant, and dumb. Why is a part of what runs this city.
Adamason has a correct assessment of Mormonism. There are many Mormons in the USA who are practicing polygamists which is against the law. Mormonism fits Websters definition of a cult. All variations of Mormonism deny the deity of Jesus Christ as God as declared in the Holy Scriptures.
Thinking people pretty much leave a space open in the agenda for religion, whatever it might be, and let it go at that. If you let any religion lead you around by the nose, you likely have left your brain in the collection plate along with your money. I would bet all concerned if they found a pentagram around someones neck who was running for president that would get everybody up in arms! The bottom line is what a persons religion is isn’t suppose to be a factor at all, and those concerned about this want it to be and in that lies the problem. If you want to see what the difference between a secular government is compared to what people want who concern themselves with these issues could be like, have a look at Iraq and Iran where Moslem sects quibble over who should be in control, that is ultimately what you are doing. Get a grip people!
religion, in general, leaves me cold.
i was raised and schooled Roman Catholic. So i have some cred, i believe, when i say that The LDS faith is so far out that cult or not, i would definitely not vote for a candidate simply based on religous affiliation if that candidate was LDS, Jehova’s Witness or Seventh Day Adventist. Many lesser cults would also DQ a candidate in my opinion. No matter what the politicain might say, his religous affiliation speaks volumes about his real self.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves – Eric Hoffer
I agree with Steve Hanken. Leave religion out of government. When religion dictates political action, there is a charlatan in the temple.
Here is an article on science and Mormonism that I published awhile ago in my blog “Interlingua multilingue”:
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Science and the Mormons
The Mormons are a religious sect that emerged from Christianity in the United States in the Nineteenth Century. They added to the Bible their own scripture, the Book of Mormon, translated by Joseph Smith from an original text in a language he called Reformed Egyptian. According to the mythology of the Mormons, in 1827 the angel Moroni gave Smith these texts, which were engraved on golden tables. Smith could understand them without learning their language through the divine magic of two special lenses that he used to read them while he translated them.
Smith and his followers were persecuted by traditional Christians, who forced them to travel slowly and with great sacrifices until they reached what is now Utah, where their descendants dominate the religious and social life of this American state.
According to the Mormons, the Indians of the Americas came from Egypt more than 2,000 (two thousand) years ago. They used this myth to convert many Indians to their religion. “We were taught that all the blessings of our Hebrew ancestors made us a special people,” said Jose a Loyaza, a lawyer in Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah. “And this identity gave us a sense of transcendental affiliation, a special identity with God.” But Loyaza gradually learned that there was another outrageous irony to his faith.
He rejected his religion after learning that evidence provided by comparative DNA studies between American Indians and Asians conclusively proved that the first humans that migrated to the Americas came not from the Middle East but from Asia.
For the Mormons this genetic confirmation of the origin of the Indians in the Americas is a fundamental collision of science against religion. It is in direct conflict with the Book of Mormon, which, according to their religion, is a completely error-free historical work that must be interpreted literally.
The Book of Mormon is also fundamentally racist. It narrates that a tribe of Hebrews from Jeruselem went to the Americas in 600 B.C. and split up into two groups, the Nephites and the Lamanites. The Nephites carried the “true” religion to the new world and were in constant conflict with the Lamanites, who practiced idolatry. The Nephites were white (in 1980 the Mormons changed the word to “pure”), and the Lamanites received from God “The curse of blackness.”
The Book of Mormon also narrates that in 385 A.D. the Lamanites exterminated all the other Hebrews and became the principal ancestors of the American Indians. But the Mormons insist that if the Lamanites returned to the “true” religion (Mormonism, quite naturally), their skin would eventually become white like the skin of the Nephites that their ancestors had exterminated.
But despite these outrageous racist insults, many Indians and Polynesians (who also, according to the Mormons, are the descendants of the Lamanites) converted to Mormonism instead of telling the Mormons to go fuck themselves. (Through some perverse mechanism in human psychology, these converts are like homosexual priests who support the Roman catholic church or other gay people who support any type of Christianity.)
“The fiction that I was a Lamanite,” said Damon Kali, a lawyer in Sunnyvale, California, whose ancestors came from Polynesian islands, “was the principal reason that I converted to Mormonism.” He had been a missionary for the Mormans before he discovered that genetic evidence proved that the Lamanites were only a religious myth, and he could not continue his efforts to convert others to Mormonism.
Officially the Mormon church insists that nothing in the Book of Mormon is incompatible with the genetic evidence. Some Mormons are now saying that the Levites were a small group of Hebrews that went to Central America and after many generations of marrying with the natives they met, their Hebrew DNA disappeared into the DNA of their neighbors.
In 2002, officers of the church started a trial to excommunicate Thomas W. Murphy, a professor of anthropology at Edmonds Community College in Washington, an American state at the extreme northwest of the continental United States.
His trial attracted a lot of attention in the American public communications media, which ridiculed the church and insisted that Murphy was the Galileo of Mormonism. The general contempt provoked by this publicity seriously embarrassed the officers of the church, and they stopped the trial.