There’s been some concern that Republican-leaning evangelical voters might be hesitant to vote for Mitt Romney because of his religion. But the latest Pew Research Center survey found little justification for that theory:
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted June 28-July 9, 2012, among 2,973 adults, including 2,373 registered voters, finds that 60 percent of voters are aware that Romney is Mormon, virtually unchanged from four months ago, during the GOP primaries.
The vast majority of those who are aware of Romney’s faith say it doesn’t concern them. Fully eight-in-ten voters who know Romney is Mormon say they are either comfortable with his faith (60 percent) or that it doesn’t matter to them (21 percent).
Oddly enough, more voters (60 percent) correctly identify Romney’s religion as Mormon than (49 percent) correctly identify Obama’s religion as Christian. Seventeen percent still say Obama is Muslim, a statistic that the media always loves to jump on as “proof” of public stupidity.
But in fact, religion doesn’t seem to have a major influence over who people vote for, according to Pew. Though it does seem to impact voter enthusiasm:
Comfort with Romney’s faith, however, is related to the enthusiasm of Republican support for his candidacy. Among Republican and Republican-leaning voters who say they are comfortable with Romney being Mormon, 44 percent back him strongly. Among those who are uncomfortable with it, just 21 percent say they back him strongly.
Romney hasn’t spent much time talking about his religion, and according to Pew, there is little reason for him to do so. Just 16 percent of voters say they want to know more about Romney’s faith — and it’s probably safe to assume most of them work at the New York Times.
"Seventeen percent still say Obama is Muslim." nI'll take the President's word that he is a Christian. After all, he spent 20 years or so in Rev. Wright's church, got married there and baptised his daughters there. What we don't know (okay, what I don't know) is when he was baptised, or where. His father was a Muslim, as was his stepfather, but I think Islam is like Judaism in that the child take religious identify from the mother. However, if he was ever raised as a Muslim – perhaps in Indonesia – then his conversion would amount to apostasy, under Sharia, and thus punishable by death… which would tend to put a crimp in his "reset" to dealings with Muslim countries.
Jesus says in Matthew 7:15 and following, "Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves. You shall know them by their fruit. Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit…Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them." nFrom what I have seen and heard from the "Rev." Wright I have to wonder what kind of fruit he has harvested in Obama. When will America wake up to the fact there are non-Christians running the "machine" in DC. Even now the enemy is kicking down the door of America and yet we welcome them in with open arms. Do not everyone who claims to speak by the Holy Spirit. They must be tested to see the spirit the have comes from the one true God…the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Sometimes one can recognize the work of Satan at a glance. Any idea is false if it denies the deity, humanity, or saving work of Jesus. Anything less than full acceptance of, and obedience to, the divine-human Christ is following the Antichrist. When the President or anyone opposes or stands against Israel, that one is against Jesus and the one true God. All I have seen from Obama is opposition to Israel. Any nation that stands against Israel will fall. America is no exception. n
Is Obama the AntiChrist? Is that what you are saying?
Islam is more like Christianity, a professed faith. You are born a Jew but you profess Christianity, by being baptized, or Islam, by avowing that "There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is his Prophet." Same in the east: you are born a Hindu but you profess Buddhism.
Actually, Islam is not like Judaism. The religious identity is from the father.
I look forward to the day we elect an atheist president and put this conversation to bed.
You will be looking a long time…all will have to decide someday as to what side you will stand with.
There was a footnote in a book I just read that cited Reverend Wright as saying that WRIGHT didn't know if Obama was a Christian or not! I am not making this up. n nNow if your minister ain't sure, and you know far more Islamic theology than Christian, well…..
The only real difference people will notice when Romney worships, is his Church wont have any crosses. Nor do Latter Day Saints wear them, nor will you EVER find any in the church, on the hymn books etc. n nTo Mormons the cross is a tool of execution and they are taught that people who wear crosses CELEBRATE Christs death and they don't even know they are doing it. Other than that though, it will look mostly identical to any other Church. n
Compared to the calamity that almost one quarter of the world's population espouse a religious variant of Nazism – and that that population is set to double – Romney's Mormonism, made into a phony issue by Southern Baptist ayatollahs and a manipulative media, pales to insignificance.