Through the lens of religion, there is something sublime about Romney’s work to convert others, whether in Bordeaux or in Lynn, where extreme missionary efforts were required to save a single soul. But viewed through the lens of this presidential campaign, the narrowness of Romney’s empathy is striking. What he offered was salvation via a rule book, a recipe for getting ahead in America that had less to offer the doubters, the uncommitted, the foreign. In Lynn, at least, the right culture wasn’t just something that the church could teach you. In some ways, you needed the right culture to belong at all.
Romney's 'Elitist' Mormon Faith
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| 2 | | Through the lens of religion, there is something sublime about Romney’s work to convert others, whether in Bordeaux or in Lynn, where extreme missionary efforts were required to save a single soul. But viewed through the lens of this presidential campaign, the narrowness of Romney’s empathy is striking. What he offered was salvation via a rule book, a recipe for getting ahead in America that had less to offer the doubters, the uncommitted, the foreign. In Lynn, at least, the right culture wasn’t just something that the church could teach you. In some ways, you needed the right culture to belong at all.
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October 02, 2012
I haven't seen a rule book or a recipe for salvation. It is a very personal process gained through the Atonement of Christ and a commitment and action to pattern our lives after his forgiveness and service. Although I have met some individuals who see themselves and spiritually elite, it is certainly not an attitude "cultivated" in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon). I hear encouragement to be more loving of all earth's children and to lift others any way I am able.
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October 02, 2012
The only "rule book" used by Romney in seeking to convert others was the scriptures, not some economic handbook or Mormon version of Mein Kampf. I served a mission to Cambodia, and many Cambodians accepted the scriptural teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which are all centered on the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Those Cambodian congregations are led by the local Cambodians who converted to Christianity from their former Asian religions.
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