Op-ed:

Some Fear Mormonism Instead of Fearing Islam

By: Diane Sori

As we get closer to the fact that Mitt Romney will indeed be the Republican nominee for president, Pastor Rick Warren and his followers continue to bring up the issue of Romney’s Mormonism.  This serves no purpose other than to divide the party even more as it gives Barack Hussein Obama much needed leverage as he tries to pit Christian against Christian, and with Pastor Warren and his followers unrealized help, he will succeed. 

When Pastor Warren says it will be hard to convince the Evangelical right to consider a Mormon elder like Romney to be a true Christian (because Mormons do not believe in the Trinity), many will listen.  Warren contends this to be the major sticking point for ‘true’ Christians who waver in their support of Romney, with the word ‘true’ taking to mean those that follow his version of what is a Christian. 

With Warren’s way of thinking, he is actually promoting bigotry and religious hatred of a man who is a Christian, maybe not his version of what a Christian is, but a Christian nevertheless.  Warren’s constant spreading of this way of thinking is most definitely causing Christian to turn against Christian and for what...a muslim usurper who goes against everything ALL Christians believe in, and I don’t care what denomination of Christian one is.

Pastor Warren is afraid of a fellow Christian yet stated in a recent interview that the one thing Evangelicals fear more than Mormonism is islam, yet as part of a speech before Muslims said, “Before we “shake your hand”.....we ask forgiveness of the All-Merciful One and of the Muslim community around the world.”

“We ask forgiveness of muslims”...is this man kidding or what!   We need to ask forgiveness of those out to kill us, yet we should fear a Mormon in the White House...there is something very wrong with this picture.

Pastor Warren forgets that islam emphatically denies that Jesus died on the cross.  He forgets that muslims deny Christ's deity.  He forgets that to become a Christian or have close ties with a Christian means a muslim is an apostate, a crime punishable by death.

Rick Warren and the others like him who speak ill of Mormons, forget that the most important aspect of our true living God is that He is 'mighty to save,’ that He alone is the Savior.  It is this concept that Jesus applied to the Samaritans when he said, “You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews ..." (John 4:22, NIV).  

This statement alone shows that Christians, Jews, and Mormons  do NOT, I repeat NOT, worship the same God that muslims do, and so his fear is misplaced...he should fear muslims NOT Mormons.

And why should Pastor Warren fear muslims and not Mormons.  First, muslims believe that allah reveals only his will, and not himself.  Christians, Jews, and Mormons, believe that God desires to reveal himself, and believe the fact that humans are made in the image of God (Gen. 1:27).  The qur’an does not state that humans are created in the image of God, instead stating that "nothing is like him,” meaning allah (42:11), and  speaks "from behind a veil" (42:51).

Second, in Surah 5:118 Jesus is said to have told God He is free to punish or to forgive His followers who said that He, Jesus, claimed deity.  Remember, the qur’an does not give deity to Jesus.  In islam there is no concept of a savior because allah “forgives whom He pleaseth, and punishes whom He pleaseth.” (Surah 2:284).  

Third, has Pastor Warren forgotten that almost every major religion in the world, including Mormonism, teaches a variation of the Golden Rule ( ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’), but that islam does not.  Does Warren forget the 164 verses in the qur’an* that instruct muslims to kill ALL Christians and Jews. 

And yet again, he fears a Mormon and is spreading that fear.

Fourth, does Pastor Warren forget that islam teaches a very different view of God than Christians, Jews, and Mormons do.   Does he forget that islam says allah is exalted and removed from mankind and that man cannot know him personally, and that they are to be in total submission to his will, because there is NO free will in islam...none.

Fifth and most importantly, does Pastor Warren forget that even mohammad said muslims and the unbelievers do NOT worship the same God, “Say: O disbelievers!  I worship not that which ye worship; Nor worship ye that which I worship. And I shall not worship that which ye worship. Nor will ye worship that which I worship. Unto you your religion, and unto me my religion. (Surah 109:1-6 Pickthall)

These facts prove that islam and Christianity, Judaism, and yes, even Mormonism, are diametrical opposites of each other nor do they worship the same God.  So next time people like Rick Warren and his people say they fear a Mormon in the White House, they need to take a look around and see what three and a half years of having a muslim in the White House have done to America.

I’ll take a Mormon any day.

See the 164 verses here:

*https://www.facebook.com/groups/PatriotsUnitedAgainstObamaPropaganda/doc/342888869087701/