1 If you are a Christian, you should not vote for Romney. If you’re a Christian and you think you should keep your religious views out of your political decisions, then you should consider this aspect of modern Mormonism. Romney is not keeping religion out of the election; he has speciﬁcally said he is keeping God in his campaign. The Mormon Church is also not keeping their religion out of politics. That’s because the Mormons actually have a prophecy that the United States will get into great trouble and be “hanging by a thread,” which Mormon leaders have interpreted to mean near ﬁnancial bankruptcy . The prophecy says when the country gets into this great trouble, the Mormons will step in and save the nation; after which all Americans will become enlightened , and Mormonism will be recognized as the one true Christianity in the country.

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Romney says he wants to “save our country from ﬁnancial ruin.” The Mormons believe he is prophesied to do that.

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It’s not coincidence. The Mormon prophecy is speciﬁcally about the United States because their founder was alive and in the U.S. when he claimed to become a prophet. If you support Romney, then you are supporting the Mormon prophecy whether you want to or not. And if Romney is in ofﬁce and the economy gets better, they will claim the prophecy fulﬁlled. Why should you care if the Mormons claim that Romney fulﬁlled their prophecy? Because the Mormons w ill use that newly

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prophecy in their missionary work. They’ll claim it as proof that the founder of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith, is a true prophet of God because his prophecy came true. And if Joseph Smith is a true prophet of God, then they’ll claim it as proof that Mormonism is the only true version of Christianity, because that is the foundational premise Mormonism was founded on by Smith. The Mormon church will then use the ﬁrst part of the fulﬁlled prophecy to verify the second part of that prophecy, which is the U.S. will become a Mormon nation. That’ s their prophecy and their plan; it will be their sales pitch for recruitment, too. Even if you don’t believe it, you have to admit it’s a pretty strong sales pitch for religious conversion; “Our founder is the new prophet of God, and we can prove it. He prophesied that Mormons would help save the United States, and just like he prophesied , Mormons helped save America. He also said everyone in America will become Mormon. If you want to be a real Christian, you should join our church.” Without the “

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from the prophecy, this is how Mormons recruit new converts now.

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Why should that matter to Christians? Because Mormonis m claims to be a form of Christianity but is not.

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Why not? By their own admission, Mormonism is not monotheistic; at least not in the same way as any other form of Christianity.

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Mormonism teaches that God the Almighty ﬁrst had to work to become God and that God is one of a multitude of gods.

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Mormonism preaches that God himself is an “exalted” man of “ﬂesh and bone” who lives in an actual physical place near a star or planet named Kolob.

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This belief structure is polytheistic, and no claim to contrary changes that fact. This belief structure is fundamentally different from any other form of apostolic creedal Christianity, which believes in only one Supreme God and rejects the existence of any other gods. Even the Christian concept of the Tri nity is fundamentally different in Mormonism than in any other apostolic tradition of Christian faith.

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Mormons consider Jesus and God to be separate entities who are both “ﬂesh and bone” and who exist in our physical universe among a host of equal gods.