naturalplastic wrote:
Mitt Romney doesn't insist on being sworn in on the Book of Mormon.
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Muslims, like the Mormons, read the Bible as well as their own book.
Jews stop at the Old Testament.
Christians stop at the New Testament.
Mormons tack the Book of Mormon on to the OT and the NT.
Similarly, the Koran is an add on to the OT and the NT.
All four share the Old Testament. So why cant she just follow tradition and us the Bible?
Seems like unnecessary grandstanding to me.
Because the Quran ≠ the Bible and Islam ≠ Christianity. By your logic, all Christians should have no problem swearing themselves in on a copy of the Tanakh.
Mormons still consider themselves Christians so swearing on a regular old Bible isn't that weird. A Mormon making a to-do about swearing in on a Bible that doesn't have the book of Mormon would be like an Orthodox Christian having a problem with swearing on a Bible that doesn't have 3 and 4 Maccabees.
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