Just a thought. Mormon’s are a Christian church too. Granted a church that contains many ideals that are heretical and have long been heretical but they still are a Christian church.
I am not a huge fan of Mormonism and I can’t say I’d be comfortable with having one in the White House but you have to be careful with how far you take that. A good number of our Republican primary voters did not like McCain last year. Those who opted not for him had a remarkable characteristic.
Catholics, Episcopalians and Mainline Protestants and Jews (Catholics especially) opted for Romney over Huckabee and as a result this became one of the only two high vote counties in the state where Romney outran Huckabee.
Their reasoning was simple. Huckabee was a Southern Baptist preacher and they believed his campaign had used Romney’s non-Evangelical religion to attack him and down here, we’re sensitive to that. So I understand where you Evangelicals are coming from, but I also have the experience of a Southern Catholic in a Catholic dominated town in a Southern Baptist dominated state. Be careful because there’s always a backlash that can be provoked.
Listen, no "Christian church" I know teaches you that you are a "god-in-embyro" (google the term & you'll see the Lds leader references) & that you can be a god of your own star/planet. Likewise, no "Christian church" I know teaches that multiple gods exist and that you yourself can add to that total by becoming one.
If polytheism = "Christian" then "Christian" means nothing.
A good number of our Republican primary voters did not like McCain last year. Those who opted not for him had a remarkable characteristic. Catholics, Episcopalians and Mainline Protestants and Jews (Catholics especially) opted for Romney over Huckabee and as a result this became one of the only two high vote counties in the state where Romney outran Huckabee.
Well, maybe you've seen some voting results sliced & diced that I've haven't seen -- re: how Catholics, Episcopalians and Mainline Protestants actually voted in the last primaries.
But I can tell you from one Gallup poll going into those primaries that when three groups were polled (self-identified conservatives, moderates & liberals) about whether they would vote for a Mormon POTUS or not...
...Moderates were 11% LESS likely than Conservatives to vote for a Mormon POTUS...
...and Liberals were 9% LESS likely than Conservatives to vote for a Mormon POTUS.
Now, certainly, these numbers change over time (for example, liberals may be even LESS likely than the above to vote for a Mormon POTUS since Prop 8 passage). But as it applies to your comment, it was actually the moderates in the GOP who drove the vote for McCain because the "11% less" number above drove many away from Romney. And where do you think the moderates reside a few Sunday mornings a month? (Mainline Protestantism; Episcopalians, and Catholics)
Now I'm not saying those moderates were Huckabee-happy. (Obviously they weren't). But you see, the moderates united in their vote behind McCain, whereas the more conservative voters split their vote behind Huckabee, Romney, Thompson, Ron Paul & earlier in the race the others who were still in it for a brief time.
No; it isn't.
Just because they have JESUS CHRIST plastered on the wall of the building doesn't mean they define Him as CHRISTIANS do.
Mormon’s are a Christian church too. Granted a church that contains many ideals that are heretical and have long been heretical but they still are a Christian church.
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Ummm...if they are heretical (which I agree with) then they follow a different Christ (which they do) than the one the Bible teaches.
THEREFORE, they cannot properly be called a Christian church.
Putting the name Jesus Christ in the name of your church does not make you Christian any more than putting the words “auto repairs” on the side of your garage makes you a mechanic.
Oh, Azalea.
Just because they say they are a Christian church doesn’t make it so. It’s polite not to inquire too deeply in America and not to judge another’s faith.
However, both the Catholic church and the Mormons claim to be the one true Church. One of them must be wrong (the atheists will jump in here to say both are wrong). The Mormons say that ALL other churches are of the Antichrist.
I’ve seen this false identification of Catholicism with Mormonism in other Catholics; Kathryn Lopez of National Review and others just gushed over Mitt Romney the last time he ran for President when he pretty much stole Kennedy’s famous speech on how his Catholicism was not a threat to the country. Mitt’s strategy is for Catholics to feel that they and the Mormons have a common enemy in Protestants.
Please remember that (most) Protestants accept Catholics as brothers and sisters, but no Mormon can. More than the Lutherans, they believe that you are the Antichrist.