A Little Better the Second Time Around
Jeffrey Weiss, in The Dallas Morning News Religion blog, tells us that he was not super impressed with Mitt Romney's speech on religion given when he was running for President last December. Weiss was more impressed with the speech Romney gave last week, where he reflected on the earlier speech, the feedback he received, and the further thoughts that prompted.
Romney's new speech was great politics, but not very useful as theology. Romney quotes Jefferson, Adams and other founding fathers talking about God and God's blessings. Readers might get the impression that these men would feel right at home today at an evangelical revival or in a Mormon tabernacle. Romney fails to point out that the God of Jefferson was an impersonal creator, not the God of the old or new testaments, certainly not Jesus. Jefferson famously said,
"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."I can only imagine what Jefferson would have had to say about Mormonism. Romney may or may not be right that freedom requires religion, but if it does, it's not the religion of modern Mormons, Baptists, Catholics, etc. that's required.
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