Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Romney's "Sharp Practice" Finances and Scientology and Mormonism/LDS Compared And Washington Times Question's Obama's Birth Certificate and Legitimacy of Parents Marriage

Romney Watch:

Ben LaBolt: Mitt Romney's Offshore Bank Accounts and Tax Returns



" Racist apologetics by a popular Brigham Young University religion professor are sparking controversy, as election-year scrutiny sheds a revealing light on the persistence of racist belief among LDS Church members.

   ...Randy Bott, a BYU professor of religion, told the Washington Post that the LDS Church’s historic prohibition on priesthood ordination for men of African descent was a “blessing” to blacks because they were not “ready” for priesthood authority."

“God has always been discriminatory” when it comes to whom he grants the authority of the priesthood, says Bott... Bott compares blacks with a young child prematurely asking for the keys to her father’s car, and explains that similarly until 1978, the Lord determined that blacks were not yet ready for the priesthood.

“What is discrimination?” Bott asks. “I think that is keeping something from somebody that would be a benefit for them, right? But what if it wouldn’t have been a benefit to them?” Bott says that the denial of the priesthood to blacks on Earth—although not in the afterlife—protected them from the lowest rungs of hell reserved for people who abuse their priesthood powers. “You couldn’t fall off the top of the ladder, because you weren’t on the top of the ladder. So, in reality the blacks not having the priesthood was the greatest blessing God could give them.”

Quote from : Racist Remarks by popular BYU Religion Professor Spark Controversy Post by JOANNA BROOKS at ReligionDispatches February 29, 2012

Mormon Prophet:Blacks Represent Satan On Earth

Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard (LRH)was a racist and it appears Scientologists are mostly racist which fits with their elitism and disdain for other people who have not enter into the bizarre belief system that is Scientology.

Scientology: Racism Inside The Evil Cult [PSA]

Published on 6 Jun 2012 by AnonWellz
What David Miscavige and L. Ron Hubbard don't want you to know...



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LDS Mormon PROPHET John Taylor Stated:

Why is it, in fact, that we should have a devil? Why did not the Lord kill him long ago? . . . He needed the devil and great many of those who do his bidding just to keep . . . our dependence upon God, . . . When he destroyed the inhabitants of the antediluvian world, he suffered a descendant of Cain to come through the flood in order that he [the devil] might be properly represented upon the earth (Journal of Discourses, vol. 23, p. 336).

LDS PROPHET JOHN TAYLOR:"...after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham's wife,as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? Because it was necessary that the DEVIL should have a representation a upon a the earth..."Journal of Discourses, Volume 22, page 304.




Damian Thompson compares Scientology to Latter Day Saints/Mormons in an article at The Daily Telegraph


OK, Mitt. Can you direct me to Kolob?
"Admittedly, from a secular point of view, eating bread in the belief that it’s the body of a carpenter-turned-preacher who rose from the dead is as bizarre as hooking yourself up to an E-meter, like Scientologists, or baptising the dead, like Mormons.
Yet there are striking similarities between the sects founded by Joseph Smith and L Ron Hubbard. These brilliant mavericks used popular culture to produce cosmologies that they marketed aggressively, though reserving some esoteric details for senior initiates.
Smith invented a journey by ancient Hebrews to America – a typical fantasy of the time – and dabbled in the occult.
Hubbard mined the seam of mid-20th-century American science fiction, and also devised a brain-cleansing technique called Dianetics that was supposed to produce perfect recall. It failed hilariously.
Critics accused Smith and Hubbard of telling porkies"
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above quote from: Where Mormonism meets Scientology by Damian thompson at The telegraph ,July 6, 2012


Scientology and The Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day Saints have a few things in common. according to a recent article in The Telegraph in the UK.
The author cites several but I have added a few more.
 Both preach a form of "Positive Thinking" and the "Prosperity Gospel" .

Both emphasize material success and only secondarily mention spiritual progress or improving one's mind.
Both churches have accumulated a great deal of wealth .
Both believe that their teachings are the only correct teachings all other teachings, philosophies and theologies and cosmologies  are false and pernicious and evil and corrupt.
Both groups claim their origins occurred on a distant planet from Earth .
Both groups emphasize "secret " teachings which are taught to those who are thought to be worthy and they are not permitted to reveal these "secrets" on pain of excommunication and being shunned by their co-religionists .
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were not above not just excommunicating and deporting heretics or apostates but also killing that is murdering such persons when it was deemed necessary.
(The Danites and the Avenging Angels which were the military and policing arm of the Mormon church which often operating in secret so the LDS church could deny any connection to these murders.)
Both organizations are also authoritarian in character.


Where Mormonism meets Scientology by Damian Thompson at The Telegraph ,July 6, 2012

We can take it for granted that Tom Cruise – whose divorce proceedings are already such a catastrophe for Scientology – will never talk in public about Xenu. The existence of this intergalactic emperor, who flourished c 75,000,000 BC, was top secret until the Church’s enemies took to the internet. Advice to journalists: if you ask Cruise about Xenu, the doors of Hollywood (where the Church wields immense influence) will slam in your face.

On the other hand, it’s safe to ask any Scientologist about Kolob. This is the star, or possibly planet, that is closest to the throne of God...

Why is it safe to ask Cruise about Kolob? Because it’s Mormon, not Scientologist: it appears in The Book of Abraham, “translated” from Egyptian papyri by Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. I use inverted commas because Smith couldn’t read Egyptian. The papyri were funerary texts.

The person you mustn’t ask about Kolob is Mitt Romney. The teaching isn’t a secret, but Latter-day Saints aren’t keen to discuss it. These days they stress their similarity with Christianity, and there’s no Kolob in the Gospels.

Admittedly, from a secular point of view, eating bread in the belief that it’s the body of a carpenter-turned-preacher who rose from the dead is as bizarre as hooking yourself up to an E-meter, like Scientologists, or baptising the dead, like Mormons. Yet there are striking similarities between the sects founded by Joseph Smith and L Ron Hubbard. These brilliant mavericks used popular culture to produce cosmologies that they marketed aggressively, though reserving some esoteric details for senior initiates.

Smith invented a journey by ancient Hebrews to America – a typical fantasy of the time – and dabbled in the occult.

Hubbard mined the seam of mid-20th-century American science fiction, and also devised a brain-cleansing technique called Dianetics that was supposed to produce perfect recall. It failed hilariously.
Critics accused Smith and Hubbard of telling porkies.

The former’s interpretation of the Egyptian papyri, which he encountered in a travelling mummy exhibition, is plain embarrassing. As for Hubbard, his war service was a work of the imagination to rival the science fiction he wrote before he discovered religion and its tax-exempt status. Both organisations are extremely interested in money, and very good at acquiring it.

The two prophets were heartily interested in the opposite sex: Smith acquired some 33 wives, while Hubbard encouraged teenage girl “officers” to wear hot pants.

Also, both religions went down the paramilitary route. We’ve read this week about the “Sea Org” that Katie Holmes allegedly feared her little daughter would be forced to join (a claim denied by the Church). But that’s nothing compared with the Mormon militia which fought in the Mexican-American war. Later, Mormon “avenging angels” were implicated in blood-curdling murders after they moved to Utah.

The Latter-day Saints cleaned up their act. But they were the Scientologists of their day – and they’re still evasive enough for the public to make the subliminal connection.

That’s why Mitt Romney, who dresses like a Mormon but flashes a Scientologist’s smile, must be worried by the Cruise-Holmes divorce. This year of all years, he doesn’t want the word “cult” splashed all over the front pages.


Meanwhile Sun Myung Moon's newsagency The Washington Times is still peddling conspiracy theories about Obama's Birth Certificate and now adds questions over the legitimacy of Obama's parents marriage.

OBAMA PARENTS' MARRIAGE HAD LEGITIMATE FLAWS by Nick Chase from American Thinker via The Washington Times, July 7, 2012

In my previously published article "Secrets Revealed," I concluded that what President Obama is concealing on his genuine long-form birth certificate (not the digital PDF forgery released to the public) is that his mother signed her maiden name.

That's all, you say? By today's standards (about 40% of births are out of wedlock; about half for women under 30) an unmarried woman giving birth is unexceptional. But in 1961, it was still a big deal (about 5% out-of-wedlock births, mostly by minorities) and was a mark of shame, especially if the woman was well-educated. So if Stanley Ann Dunham signed her maiden name to baby Barack's birth certificate, she did so either unintentionally — a mental slip — or deliberately — she felt her signature should conform to her maiden name as typed on the certificate, or she was not married to Barack Obama the father, or she chose not to acknowledge the marriage. ...

Personally, I think the preponderance of evidence shows that Obama's marriage to Ann Dunham was a legal contrivance that suited both their purposes — Obama's as a means to maintain residency in the U.S. until he completed his studies, and Ann's (and maybe also her parents') to provide legitimacy to the baby's birth. In no way was this a meaningful marital relationship.

and related articles questioning where Obama was born Hawaii or Kenya and there is supposedly uncertainty according to the Washington Times and their conspiracy spinning base about who in fact is Obama's real father :

"Mother of all lies: Obama's deceit about mom's death"
"Real question on Obama might be 'Who's the father?'"
"Literary agent's 1991 booklet: Obama 'born in Kenya' "
"Media ignores Obama's 'junkie, pothead' past"
"Flight records missing for week of Obama's birth"

   The rightwing and GOP in USA are still engaged in fear mongering in regards to "terrorist's sleeper cells" in the USA who are getting arms through the Mexican and Latin American drug cartels south of the border.
And if such "sleeper cells " exist they blame Obama for being too sympathetic to Islamist terrorists to hunt down these individuals and groups within US borders.

Unfortunately the people who profit or make a living off of the Military/Intelligence and security industries are all too happy to oblige these fact-challenged conspiracy theories.

The Washington Times and other similar news agencies such as CNN and Fox News also tend to promulgate this sort of half-baked nonsense either to improve their ratings or to appease their ultra-conservative owners or out of shere laziness and/or a lack of journalistic integrity.

Ex-CIA agent: Iranian sleeper cells are in America by David Zuchchino at LA Times via Washington Times, July 6,2012

[Reza Kahlili] lives in fear, he says, because his years as a paid spy for the CIA inside Iran have made him an assassination target of Iran's government. ...

Kahlili says Iranian terrorist cells inside the U.S. have weapons, explosives, money and safe houses; they use contacts with Mexican and Latin American drug cartels to smuggle explosives and weapons into the U.S. ...

Kahlili says Iran has intelligence agents inside American universities, Islamic cultural centers and charitable institutions, posing as academics, policy experts and officers of nonprofits ... [trying] to influence policymakers to encourage negotiations in order to give Iran time to develop nuclear weapons.
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Suggested reading on LDS:

* America's Saints: The Rise of Mormon Power by Robert Gottlieb & Peter Wiley, Pub. 1984.

* Understanding The Book of Mormon: A Readers Guide by Grant Hardy, Pub. 2010.

* One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church by Richard Abanes, Pub. 2002.

* Latter Days: A Guided Tour Through Six Billion Years of Mormonism by Newell Coke, Pub. 2000.


* Mormon America-The Power and the Promise by Henry Richard Ostling and Joan K. Ostling, Pub.1999.

and related books:


* American originals: Homemade Varieties of Christianity by Paul K. Conkin , Pub. 1997.


* God's Own Party; The Making of the Christian Right by Daniel K. Williams, Pub. 2010.


* Under God : Religion and American Politics by Garry Wills, Pub. 1990/2007


* End-Time Visions: The Road to Armageddon, by Richard Abanes, Pub. 1998.


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