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| Gingrich campaign fires IA aide who called Mormonism a cult | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 14 2011, 06:15 AM (351 Views) | |
| jon-nyc | Dec 14 2011, 06:15 AM Post #1 |
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Cheers
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-14/gingrich-campaign-fires-iowa-aide-who-called-mormonism-a-cult-.html Good for him. |
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| Piano*Dad | Dec 14 2011, 06:26 AM Post #2 |
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Bull-Carp
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After the crap Romney has started dishing his way, this is a real turn-the-other-cheek moment for Newt. Good on him. |
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| Copper | Dec 14 2011, 06:46 AM Post #3 |
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Shortstop
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I wonder if any democrat candidate will sign him up. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Kincaid | Dec 14 2011, 08:41 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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He was only fired because he failed to say, "Not that there's anything wrong with that" afterward. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| somebody else's sock | Dec 14 2011, 08:59 AM Post #5 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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Guess Craig didn't get the memo. |
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| Renauda | Dec 14 2011, 09:05 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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As far as I'm concerned the aide called it as it is. Mormonism was conceieved as a cult and remains to this day a cult. |
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| jon-nyc | Dec 14 2011, 09:07 AM Post #7 |
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Cheers
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I'd consider it more of an ex-cult, but then that's true about all of the Abrahamic religions (except the sub-groups that are still cults, like the Hassidim, branch davidians, etc.) Having said that, I'd be the first to admit the definition is fluid and imprecise. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Renauda | Dec 14 2011, 09:14 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It's an alien based cult as far as I'm concerned. Just Google the term *planet kolob*. No different than that contemporary cult founded by L. Ron Hubbard. |
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| kenny | Dec 14 2011, 09:37 AM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Give em 2000 years. ALL religions were made up and agreed with - not that there's anything wrong with that. Less agreement = cult |
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| Chris Aher | Dec 14 2011, 09:41 AM Post #10 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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Except that it didn't start out as a bar bet with the editor of Astounding Science Fiction (Analog) magazine.
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Regards, Chris | |
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| jon-nyc | Dec 14 2011, 09:44 AM Post #11 |
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Cheers
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Kind of my point - they were all cults at first. Like Hitch said - add religion to the list of things that are best not to see made (with laws and sausages). |
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| Renauda | Dec 14 2011, 09:44 AM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I'll wager it didn't start over a pot of coffee and a pack of cigarettes either. |
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| Chris Aher | Dec 14 2011, 11:15 AM Post #13 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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More likely, ergot. |
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Regards, Chris | |
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| Kincaid | Dec 14 2011, 11:40 AM Post #14 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Agreed - Mormonism has acquired a patina of respectability from the simple passage of time. Same with Islam. Same with the cult of that wayward Jew Jesus that I follow. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| Renauda | Dec 14 2011, 12:47 PM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Probably. Ol' Joe Smitty came down with a bad case of St. Anthony's Fire followed by acute lead poisoning. |
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| Renauda | Dec 14 2011, 01:08 PM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Patina? I prefer to call it tarnish. |
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| somebody else's sock | Dec 14 2011, 01:25 PM Post #17 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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From the Des Moines Register: http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/12/14/did-newt-gingrichs-ex-staffer-really-call-mormonism-is-a-cult/ The last paragraph -
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| John D'Oh | Dec 14 2011, 02:05 PM Post #18 |
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MAMIL
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One day maybe someone running for President will admit that he's not really religious, and pretty much thinks it's all a load of rubbish. Oh hang on, that would be honesty. |
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| Renauda | Dec 14 2011, 04:18 PM Post #19 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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...or unAmerican |
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