Promised Land

Sometimes comments are too good to languish unread at the bottom of posts. At "verbum ipsum" there was recently a post on the question of Mitt Romney's Mormonism. Romney, of course, is a likely frontrunner for the Republican nomination, and there has been speculation about whether Americans would vote for a Mormon. In any case, the post and all the comments are good, but this one by Lutheran Zephyr made my day:

Of course, one caution about having a mormon president is that Mormons believe that Jesus came to North America, and in this sense the USA is some sort of divinely-inspired promised land (oh, wait a minute, that's also the Great American Myth held by all kinds of Americans, not just Mormons. Sorry. God bless America.).