Mitt Romney the Evangelical Mormon

According to the liberal "The Daily Beast", which is partnered with "Newsweek" and is in no way friendly to Evangelical (Born-Again, real) Christians:

 "When asked by Newsweek if he has done baptisms for the dead—in which Mormons find the names of dead people of all faiths and baptize them, as an LDS representative says, to “open the door” to the highest heaven—he looked slightly startled and answered, “I have in my life, but I haven’t recently.” The awareness of how odd this will sound to many Americans is what makes Romney hesitant to elaborate on the Mormon question."

Also,

"Nothing is more politically vexing or personally crucial for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney than the story of his faith. Raised in a devout Mormon family by parents who were both principled and powerful, Romney has downplayed both his religion and his own family history. Instead, he has talked up his résumé as a private-sector "turnaround artist" who reversed the fortunes of troubled companies and the faltering Salt Lake City Olympics and now can come to his party's—and country's—rescue. Mindful of the sway of evangelical Christians over the GOP base, he has positioned himself as the candidate with conservative principles and strong faith, even adopting evangelical language in calling Jesus Christ his "personal savior" (vernacular not generally used by members of the Mormon Church). But when he's pressed on the particulars of his own religious practice, his answers grow terse and he is quick to repeat that his values are rooted in "the Judeo-Christian tradition.""


Clearly, Mitt Romney has rejected the twisting of the following verses and is (so to speak) between a Rock (Jesus) and a hard place (the Mormon Church, which he is slowly moving away from or staying in to reform):


"²⁹ Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead? ³⁰ And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour? ³¹ I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. ³² If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”"

Part of Why Legalistic "Messianic Judaism" Is Not Jewish (Or Messianic Jewish)

Looking at Parshot Terumah and Tetzaveh, at least for me, the following comes to mind: "Some institutions are considered to be a product of the cultural milieu and societal norms of the ancient Near East when the Hebrew Scriptures were written down, and do not speak to our lives today." (Amy Scheinerman, URJ.org) While they do not lessen my belief in the inerrant and infallible Word of G-d, they do point out that "Some institutions... do not speak to our lives today" but for that they were instituted when chen (grace) was not habrit l'Yisra'el. 

Besides, the Mishkan (which took a lot of time, effort, and resources to build) and HaBeit Mikdash are both gone. So, how can one possibly expect to keep all 613 mitzvot, some of which relate to the long-past Mishkan and the yet-to-be-rebuilt Beit Mikdash?

Hi, Mia; I'm Not Afraid Of Your Lawsuit or Other Threats...

   

San Gabriel, California arrived from google.com on "The Nicole Factor: I Should've Mentioned This In My Last Video..." by searching for mia danilowicz.

20:20:20 -- 7 minutes ago

Let be known that as a fellow American, I have the right to call against you a boycott for your mistreatment of family members and others. I have called out your cousin and my granddad Jack Czarnecki for being a Self-Hating Jew who is not proud to have been an IRS Agent who brought down the Anti-Semitic Watergate causer, Richard M. Nixon. I have also called out Pop-Pop Czarnecki for the second-degree, malice-intent murder of his mother and my great-grandmother, Mary Trudnak Czarnecki. I also have called out our very distant cousins Kirk and Michael Douglas-- Kirk Douglas for his known rape of the late Natalie Wood, Michael for cheating on his then wife with his now wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones.

I will continue to call you for threatening me with a lawsuit over putting factually-correct information on UrbanDictionary.com that you merely did not like. I will continue to call you out for calling me  "fucking psycho". I intend to be no respecter of persons-- even myself-- whatsoever. Until you apologize for your mistreatment of me, I will continue to call for a boycott against you; and I will certainly reach no olive branch toward you until you extend to me a request for forgiveness for the way that you treated me.

As I've Blogged Before, I'm Not Going To Be Or Asking To Be Popular; Though...

I do want to be famous. However, I'm not asking or going to be loved by everybody-- case in point, many of my own family (including Matt Turner and Mia Danilowicz, and my dad and his parents) hate and/or want nothing whatsoever to do with me (which is part of why I want to be famous-- to show them; "How Do You Like Me Now", if you know what I mean. Anyway, if and when I'm famous, they'll probably even want to associate with me even if only because I'm famous.).

However, I'm not looking to fulfill the following:

"³ For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; ⁴ and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables." (From 2 Timothy 4, NKJV)


I'm not looking to lie to people. As my estranged cousin Kevin Miskell said, "I'm not selling my soul for money." In my case, I'm not selling my soul for money, family, etc.. In fact, in regards to my family, I love and hurt for my family so much that I refuse to sell my soul for and even to my family.


I'm not saying that seeing family un- and de-friend me on Facebook doesn't hurt. But I'd rather be hurt by family for doing the right thing than hurt myself and others-- including my family-- by not doing the right thing.

The Prayers For My Webcam Obviously Worked

Meanwhile, I was persecuted by at least four separate people on YouTube during the course of this Yom Rishon (Saturday evening to Sunday evening). I know that there is power in prayer for even shallow requests and that I was being persecuted by some force re the webcam, etc.. Thank you for your prayers.

Meanwhile, a more-serious prayer request: for my polytheistic friend whose family tried to proselytize incessantly to him or her. Please pray for him or her, that he or she will return to the Christian faith that he or she once had, and that his or her family members will not forcibly share their faith against the wishes of anyone-- whether a Non Christian, a struggling Christian, or even a strong Christian-- in the future. Toda v'Shav'ua Tov. 

Please Contribute If You Can (Not An Advertisement, Paid or Otherwise)

I finally read about JewishGen's Miskolc project. This is why part of why I donate what $10 I can to JewishGen each month or so (and I'd donate more, but Mom won't let me due to budgetary and other concerns). Please donate if you can for the sake of the Hanzoks and Fockos (Foczkos) to be found buried there; and for the Molnars, Filczaks, Rusnaks, and whoever else might be buried there (Remember that Diosgyor and Miskolc factor hugely into many Slovakia-born Jews' lives and the lives of their descendants.).

Illegal Aliens and Driver's Licenses

Remember this "bustup" that looked like a Jack and Greg Czarnecki fight (My family will get this reference.)? LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck and Sheriff Lee Baca want to track illegal immigrants using drivers' licenses. How do this bustup and the LAPD plan connect? Alfredo Ramos could've easily been tracked this way in Virginia Beach (where at least two of my cousins and their sides of the family live, and I wonder how they were affected by the Ramos-caused tragedy).

As a Jewish and Latina descendant of illegal-immigrant Anusim, I might be about the only other Republican who agrees with Chief Beck and Sheriff Baca. In other words, yo acuerdo con Geraldo Rivera en eso sujeto respetando a inmigrantes ilegales.