Last night, Stephen Colbert looked at how after Mitt Romney met with Billy Graham, his website removed Mormonism under their list of cults.
Throughout the election, pundits have wondered whether Mitt Romney's faith could hurt his chances.
RICHARD WOLFFE (9/25/2012): We know from extensive polling as well as anecdotally and culturally that evangelicals do not favor a Mormon candidate.
PBS FRONTLINE (10/9/2012): For a lot of evangelical Christians, they don't consider Mormonism even Christianity.
Of course, how can it be Christianity if it's not televised with an 800 number?
So to counter this problem, Romney has appealed to the Reverend Billy Graham, an evangelical titan and religious adviser to twelve Presidents. One more, and he gets a free foot-long in Heaven. But folks, there is a catch. Billy Graham's own website lists Mormonism as a cult, along with Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientologists, and Unitarians. Oh yes, the dangerous cult of Unitarianism. Their rules are so loose, that their three sacred texts are the Old Testament, the New Testament, and Free to Be... You and Me. (audience applause)
But ladies and gentlemen, a miracle has occurred for Mitt, because with God, all things are deletable.
ABC15 NEWS STORY (10/19/2012): A meeting with Mitt Romney seems to have changed evangelist Billy Graham's view of Mormons. Graham removed references to Mormonism as a cult after meeting with the Republican presidential nominee.
NEWS REPORT (10/14/2012): Romney took some of his time in North Carolina to go visit evangelist Billy Graham. Graham told Romney that he'll do "all I can to help Romney win the White House."
Though in fairness, the 93-year-old Graham has said the same thing to his coat rack.
So, a Tip of My Hat to the Reverend Billy Graham for dis-encultifying Mormonism. And folks, I agree. Billy Graham's website definition of cults says they are those belief systems that "do not adhere solely to the sixty-six books of the Bible as the inspired Word of God, and add their 'special revelations' to the Bible".
Well folks, the Book of Mormon isn't a special revelation. It's Jesus fan fiction. Right after Jesus comes to America to preach to the Indians, he and Edwards Cullen baptize Dumbledore.
It's great, it's gripping.
But the biggest reason Mormons are no longer a cult is that now, a Mormon might beat Obama. And that is great news for other cults. All you have to do to be reclassified as a legitimate religion by Billy Graham is field a viable Republican candidate. Sorry Ron Paul fans, you're still a cult. (audience laughter)
But, Scientologists, you can get off the list as soon as your galactic overlord Xenu wins the Iowa straw poll.
After all, crazier things have happened.
We'll be right back.
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