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Mitt Romney is the Antichrist

...and I shouldn't use hyperbole in a blog post title. In a previous post, Dishonesty in Religion , I talk about my concerns with having a Mormon as the President. I few comments on the blog and a few discussions with friends have helped me to amend this position. I would have a problem with Mitt Romney as President. First, let me give you some of my assumptions: -Most things a politician says, s/he says with an agenda in mind. -Most politicians are interested in garnering as much of the vote as possible My problem is that when Mitt presents himself to Christians , he tries to present himself as one of them (see Dishonesty in Religion for why this is a problem). I believe, however, that he is not only being dishonest in how he presents his beliefs to Christians, but I believe he is subtly reaching out to other demographics in dishonest ways. When asked what his favorite novel was, Mitt stated that it was Battlefield Earth , a sci-fi novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. ...