Romney Plans to Discuss Mormon Faith at Convention

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-27/romney-plans-to-discuss-mormon-faith-at-convention-in-tampa

"...Mitt Romney will talk about his time as a Mormon bishop at the Republican convention this week when he accepts the party’s presidential nomination, as he works to persuade voters he is sympathetic to average Americans’ concerns.

Romney “insisted” on mentioning his experience pastoring to his congregation in Massachusetts -- a subject that will also be addressed by other convention speakers -- during his speech scheduled for Thursday night, top adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said at a Bloomberg Breakfast today in Tampa, Florida.

The subject will round out Romney’s biography with a little-discussed element of his life that he and his advisers believe shows the former Massachusetts governor and private equity executive “does have an appreciation for the hardships that are faced by ordinary Americans,” Fehrnstrom said. ..."


So now will it be okay to discuss Romney's Mormonism? And will he be introduced at the convention as "Bishop" Romney? Will journalists start referring to him as "Bishop" Romney instead of or in addition to "Governor" Romney?

[pipoman]

1. I hope he talks about this,

"The inhabitants of the moon are more of a uniform size than the inhabitants of the earth, being about 6 feet in height. They dress very much like the Quaker style and are quite general in style or the one fashion of dress. They live to be very old; coming generally, near a thousand years. This is the description of them as given by Joseph the Seer, and he could 'See' whatever he asked the Father in the name of Jesus to see"1..Joseph Smith

[FreeState]

2. You do realize that was a common belief among most people?

http://www.wolframscience.com/reference/notes/1180a

History [of extraterrestrial intelligence]. Although Greek philosophers such as Democritus believed that there must be an infinite number of worlds all with inhabitants like us, the prevailing view in antiquity - later supported by theological arguments - was that the Earth is special, and the only abode of life. However, with the development of Copernican ideas in the 1600s it came to be widely though not universally believed, even in theological circles, that other planets - as well as the Moon - must have inhabitants like us. Many astronomers attributed features they saw on the Moon to life if not intelligence, but in the late 1800s, after it was found that the Moon has no atmosphere, belief in life there began to wane. Starting in the 1870s, however, there began to be great interest in life on Mars, and it was thought - perhaps following the emphasis on terrestrial canal-building at the time - that a vast network of canals on Mars had been observed. And although in 1911 the apparent building of new canals on Mars was still being soberly reported by newspapers, there was by the 1920s increasing skepticism. The idea that lichens might exist on Mars and be responsible for seasonal changes in color nevertheless became popular, especially after the discovery of atmospheric carbon dioxide in 1947. Particularly in the 1920s there had been occasional claims of extraterrestrial radio signals (see page 1196), but by the 1950s interest in extraterrestrial intelligence had largely transferred to science fiction (see page 1198). Starting in the late 1940s many sightings were reported of UFOs believed to be alien spacecraft, but by the 1960s these were increasingly discredited. It had been known since the mid-1800s that many other stars are much like the Sun, but it was not until the 1950s that evidence of planets around other stars began to accumulate. Following a certain amount of discussion in the physics community in the 1950s, the first explicit search for extraterrestrial intelligence with a radio telescope was done in 1960 (see page 1196). In the 1960s landings of spacecraft on the Moon confirmed the absence of life there - though returning Apollo astronauts were still quarantined to guard against possible lunar microbes. And despite substantial expectations to the contrary, when spacecraft landed on Mars in 1976 they found no evidence of life there. Some searches for extraterrestrial signals have continued in the radio astronomy community, but perhaps because of its association with science fiction, the topic of extraterrestrial intelligence has generally not been popular with professional scientists. With the rise of amateur science on the web and the availability of low-cost radio telescope components the late 1990s may however have seen a renewal of serious interest.

[pipoman]

6. Belief or wonder, most people

didn't claim they were shown 1000 year old Quakers on the moon by God.

[Brother Buzz]

10. In the 1960's?

"We will never get a man into space. This earth is man’s sphere and it was never intended that he should get away from it… The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen." - President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Joseph Fieding Smith, 1960

[jberryhill]

13. This was not a "belief" however

It was a direct divinely-mediated remote viewing.

[ELI BOY 1950]

3. mormon a religion???

his dad never fought in any war...nor has romney...nor has any of his boys...he gave a commencement speech at liberty university earlier this year...is Liberty an accredited university???...NO...

a rich guy buys a school...teach bullshit...and it becomes a university...these people are lost...

i got to go and have sex with one of of my 5 wives...thanks Bringham Young

[tularetom]

4. Is there any truth to the rumors that he has ordered

300 million pair of magic underwear - one for each American.

And he plans to direct NASA to launch an exploratory mission to Kolob?

[Motown_Johnny]

9. If we are required to wear those I am going to want more than one pair.

[Cha]

11. LOL

[theinquisitivechad]

5. I am hoping he expounds on it at length. . .

In great detail

[burrowowl]

8. Me too!

[Motown_Johnny]

7. That would bring it into the debate. If he wants to nail down the religious right

this is the wrong way to do it.

[kestrel91316]

12. Uh oh. Somebody needs to tell Rmoney that's probably a bad idea.

He really needs the christian fundie vote, and they don't approve of his religion.

Oh, wait! Chat away, Bishop!

[jmowreader]

14. This should be good...

Hopefully he discusses how he sweated out the Vietnam War by trying to convince the French to stop drinking wine.

[Bigmack]

15. Is he gonna tell the fundies how Jesus and Satan are brothers...? nt