Mitt Romney

[joggerjayne]

OMG ... the western world could be run by a loony whose beliefs belong in some primitive tribe.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// If you are allowed to condemn an entire religion as barbaric and medeaval, why isn't the OP allowed to condemn anothers as looney and primitive? ///

Come on Gromit, I have already explained this to you.

Because that particular religion has proven to be so, but calling another's religion as loony and primitive is an unnecessary insult.

[Quizmonster]

I'm not in the least surprised that YOU don't agree, Anotheoldgit, but South Park is one of the most brilliantly and consistently funny programmes on TV as well as bitingly accurate. Humour and accuracy are simply wasted on some.

[mushroom25]

//....as well as bitingly accurate....//
Isaac Hayes didn't think so when they dissed his religion.

[birdie1971]

↑ Scientology (Isaac Hayes' chosen belief system) isn't really a religion. It's status differs from country to country. Some recognise it as a religion, some as a cult. Others view it somewhere in between...

http://en.wikipedia.o...ogy_status_by_country


In my humble opinion, it's a cult in the truest sense of the word.

[birdie1971]

As for Mitt Romney, his religious beliefs are just a wacky as Bush's.

AOG - “... Ah, now if you are going to put up such an intelligent argument to all of this by recommending such intellectual sources such as South Park, I will bow out gracefully...”

I understand why you've said this. But I wouldn't be so quick to judge without having first watched the video. It's both entertaining and informative...
http://www.milkandcoo...om/link/59507/detail/

[mike11111]

Never in my long years did I ever imagine that I would find common ground with atheists, yet I cannot but agree that the Mormon religion is really fairy tale stuff, loony if you like. You find some strange bedfellows as you get on in in life.

[birdie1971]

↑ See. We're not all that bad ;-)

[mibn2cweus]

Woohoo! High five Birdie. We been elevated above Mormon status . . . progress!

[Quizmonster]

Thanks for that, Birdie. I don't suppose for a moment that it occurred to Anotheoldgit actually to look at what I had referred to. I, on the other hand, have looked at the Daily Mail and - for a fanatical devotee of the brain-dead bilge THAT is - I'm amazed he dares to criticise ANY other aspect of the media!

[emmie]

strange that some here can insult a whole raft of people without knowing anyone of them, DM readers indeed, of which i am one, and yet not like the term loony for a politician who's views, beliefs are off the radar.

[Quizmonster]

Well, Em, if Romney's "views and beliefs" are "off the radar", as you say, then so presumably are the identical views and beliefs of other Mormons. Don't the millions of THEM count as "a whole raft of people"? Surely they must, yet you are quite happy, it seems, to consider THEM "loony"!

[DTCwordfan]

And all Mormons, millions of them, all of them vote Republican.

Me thinks not....

What tosh.

[DTCwordfan]

And does that mean that David Rutley, Macclesfield MP, is a loon?

I don't think so - yes he is a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints.

[anotheoldgit]

If the word 'Loony' infers that a person has somewhat of a mental problem, then surely the word in itself has no place in our politically correct world.

[joggerjayne]

In the way that it would be politically incorrect to say that ...

Pol Pot was a loony.

Idi Amin was a loony.

Adolf Hitler was a loony.

One mustn't offend the finer sensitivities of people like that.

[DTCwordfan]

Yes, but the association that Mitt Romney is a loony is taking it a bit far, to say the least. It's not as if he has exterminated half of Massachusetts, or expelled all the Jews/Muslims/Amish is it..... What's the substantiation for the comment? Or is it that you do not have a very good cognisance of what the Church of Latter Day Saints is all about as to being a religion or a cult?

Sounds like fear of the unknown to me.....

[Zeuhl]

<<If the word 'Loony' infers >>

I know it's pedantic but i really wish Old Git would learn how to use the verbs 'imply' and 'infer'

It's not difficult

[joggerjayne]

Romney has described his view of national community as one in which observant Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Jews and Muslims are inside that community = the nonobservant are not. He does not even show a perfunctory sentence showing respect for the non religious.

In Romney's mind, if you believe in the science of the big bang, then you have no place in American (or Western) society.

People who do not believe in a divine Creator will have no place in a Romney administration, regardless of their political or diplomatic abilities.

The governance of American politics would be based upon the compulsory belief in a supernatural figure, whom most of the educated West do not worship, or believe to exist.

And, at the same time, Romney will call Muslim societies backward and primitive because of their adherence to an ancient faith.

And Romney will try to agrue that this is a rational standpoint ... rather than one that is, frankly, loony.

[humbersloop]

Just to get back to Mitt Romney for a minute, I enjoyed both of these.

http://www.guardian.c...?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

http://www.guardian.c...ey-pointing-at-things

[humbersloop]

^ sorry JJ, cross posted