The theological unease with Romney, a recent NY Times story by Laurie Goldstein, reveals some rather unusual aspects of Mormon theology that make Evangelical leaders nervous.
God has a wife, for example, and Jesus was his son, but not divine. So much for the Trinity.
Carole has recently read When Jesus Became God, by Richard Reubenstein, the story of the creation of the Nicene Creed. I read parts of it some time ago. A violent, ugly story about how Jesus was elevated to "divinity" by warring bishops in Nicea.
I wonder if the Evangelical leaders have read books like this on Christian origins. The book is probably widely-read in mainstream Protestant seminaries but the seminarians have to promise not to utter a word about this story to any parishioner.
But apparently the evangelical hatred of Obama trumps that "religious" objection. Racism never dies.
Is that fair? Well, it's likely more than racism; it's also a deep revulsion to what many evangelicals (and other Tea Party members) feel is Obama's socialist, Islamic plans for the United States.
I suppose if you grow up believing rather stange and unusual things it's hard to stop.
Both "faiths" have some hair-raising beliefs and origins.
