Romney's religious faith disqualifies him from becoming president, according to Prof. Richard Dawkins, bestselling author of The God Delusion.
"Romney's prophet Joseph Smith is a fraud," Dawkins tweeted mildly on Sunday afternoon, alluding to Mormonism's founder.
"Bible & Koran genuinely old, written in the language of their time. Book of Mormon written by 19th [century] charlatan. Romney too stupid to see it," continued Dawkins, expanding into a series of inflammatory anti-Mormon tweets. "Could you really vote for a man who thinks the Garden of Eden was in Missouri?"
"No matter how much you agree with Romney's economic policy, can you really vote for such a massively gullible fool?"
Dawkins also quoted a highly controversial part of Mormon teaching, on interracial relationships, from early Mormon leader Brigham Young: "Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood . . . the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so." But Mormons have accepted interracial marriages since the 1970s, and Romney has "dismissed any notions that he agrees with the idea that interracial relationships are a sin," according to the Christian Post.
Via the Christian Post.
