Complaints About Romney -- No Fire and Brimstone From Mormons

Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg says Mitt Romney  "... seems more like a super-helpful manager at a rental car company than a fire-and-brimstone preacher." It was one of his criticisms. It seems like a good quality. Who doesn't appreciate a super-helpful manager? Who wants a fire-and-brimstone preacher? According to "Pollyanna", that's synonymous with Sunday sour stomach.

Unlike preachers like Billy Graham or Pat Robertson, Mormon leaders don't preach; they talk. Mormons don't have a paid clergy; bishops and stake presidents have other jobs to support their families. They may serve as a bishop for three years, a stake president for ten years, like Romney did, and then serve in the Primary, teaching kids, or in the nursery, babysitting 2-year olds. 

There's no theological school where Mormons are taught to become orators. Mormons don't give sermons--they give talks. In fact, all members from age 3 and up give a talk about once a year. There's no clapping in a Mormon Chapel. It is quiet after members speak. We don't give fire-and-brimstone sermons.  Frankly, that sort of thing would give me "sour stomach" too.

What would Jonah Goldberg say if Romney preached hell-fire and damnation?

Here's two examples -- A Mormon talk and an Evangelical Preacher --

President Thomas Monson:

Billy Graham, Evangelical Preacher:

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