U.S. Federal Government Forced Mormons To Renounce A Central Creed

United States Government Forced Mormons To Renounce A Central Religious Belief

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/united-states-government-forced-mormons_5.html

Mitt Romney's great grandfather fled the United States to practice polygamy in Mexico. 

Romney's Dad, George Romney, grew up in that polygamous compound.

"Mormonism Is Not Christian And Founding Prophet, Joseph Smith, Was A Sexual Predator"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/10/mormonism-is-not-christian-founding.html

Dear Fred,

Thanks for your email.

I take your theoretical point.

As a practical matter the following post is enlightening.

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/united-states-government-forced-mormons_5.html

Fact: "Good Christians" devised federal laws that forced Mormons to renounce polygamy, a central tenet of their faith. 

Currently, no "Good Christian" would advocate (or permit) restoration of credal polygamy which 19th century Christians forced Mormons to renounce.

This enforced renunciation of polygamy -- the routine practice of Abraham, David and other patriarchs -- was no different from a federal law that would require contemporary Christians to renounce their belief in "salvation by the blood of The Lamb."

No different. Not a whit.

Most American Christians were bigots in the late 1800s.

Most conservative Christians are bigots now.

"American Christianity Is Becoming A Shield For Bigotry"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/02/american-christianity-is-becoming.html

"The Etymology of Bigot"

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bigot

Politically, such bigotry denigrates Christianity and advances the cause of Liberalism.

Ironically, "Christian" "conservatives" lack any sense of paradox/irony, the appropriation of which would enable them to perceive their ongoing self-destruction. 

"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  

"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

More Merton Quotes

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/merton-best-imposed-as-norm-becomes.html

Pax tecum

Alan