Even Mormons call it the “Mormon Tabernacle Choir.”
Apostle Bruce R. McConkie published a definitive Doctrinal dissertation for Mormons call....”MORMON Doctrine.”
Mormons have not cared in the past if you called them Mormons. In fact, when I was a child someone asked me if I was Christian. I puffed out my little chest and proudly proclaimed, “NO I am not, I am Mormon.”
Saundra you haven’t been in the Church long enough to be familiar with the pride Mormons had in being a “peculiar” people, you should look up those referrences. Come on now Saundra, we know you are a recent convert, but you simply must get up to speed with Mormonism before you post embarrassing one-side opinion posts like this one.
Apparently Saundra thinks that Mormonism is just a superior brand of Protestantism. That seems to be the emphasis that the TV Commercials portray. But as you and I both know, that is all smoke and mirrors.
When I grew up we Mormons proudly separated ourselves from all other churches. We did not attempt to identify with them. We were not like them. We were better than them. We had the one true religion and they were all following false religions.
I would never have said "I'm a Christian, too." That was not in the Mormon vocabulary 30 years ago. Apparently the LDS marketing department decided that being a "peculiar church" did not work as well as being a "better church". So the LDS marketing strategy now seems to be to try to sell the Mormons as another, but a superior Christian denomination. "We're Heineken and all the other denominations are store brand."
But no matter how you slice it, Mormonism is not just another denomination. It is a wholly different religion than historical Christianity. Mormons used to be proud of that fact. Now they are apparently embarrassed by it. I suppose that is a step in the right direction.