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You said — “Is there anyone else out there who agrees with me?”

Yes, it’s done that way to offset the negative connotations of the *real cult* religion of Mormonism (i.e., Romney) which is a non-Christian cult group, from its teachings and doctrines.

Christians who adhere to the basic, historical and foundational teachings and doctrines of Christianity will easily identify the Mormon teachings and doctrines as a “non-Christian cult” (no matter the extreme effort made by the Mormon church to identify itself with Christianity, while at the very same time, denying all those basic, historic and foundational doctrines of Christianity).

So, that kind of statement (from that article) is a methodology to blunt the “cult criticism” of Christians (who do adhere to the basic, historic and foundational teachings and doctrines of Christianity) — by claiming the “cult status” (a different usage of the word) of Huckabee supporters.

I’m personally not a supporter of the “candidate” himself. I am waiting to see how a lot of this pans out before “getting on board” with anyone. However, I can see that this is what that article is trying to do, and not using the word “cult” in the same manner as the usage in terms of a “non-Christian cult” — which is a fairly precise definition.

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Star Traveler

Yes, it’s done that way to offset the negative connotations of the *real cult* religion of Mormonism (i.e., Romney) which is a non-Christian cult group, from its teachings and doctrines.

Star Traveler, there is something you need to understand. Jesus Christ loved his Father in Heaven. His Father taught him and showed him all he needed to know to successfully perform his mission on earth.

Then 300 years later, a rather notoriously wicked political emperor, who was pagan to the core, forced a perverse philosophical doctrine down the throats of all organized religion. It is called the Nicean Creed. The Creed basically stripped the truth of God the Father and the wonderful relationship Jesus had with his Eternal Father from any religious discussion or understanding.

When the young boy, Joseph Smith, went into that grove to ask his sincere question about religion, he did not understand why Christ told him that the creeds were an abomination. But if you study history at all, the philosophical corruption of the creeds will be perfectly obvious.

The tender Father and Son relationship between God the Father and His beloved Son, is something you may not want to understand, but it is crucial. That relationship is more than evident in the entire 17th Chapter of John.

To believe as your professional clergy advocates, you have to turn the entire chapter into a meaningless soliloquy between Christ and his ethereal, bodiless self.

Yes...you can continue the bigoted hate speech of the professional clergy based on the fact that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do not believe the politically expedient, and specious, doctrine of the creeds. But now you know how deceptive the clergy have been about this. (If nothing else, follow the money.)

I would invite you and all who read here to pause and consider what I have said. The Nicean creed is not scripture. Substantively, it is no different than Hillary calling a conference of the National Council of Churches and dictating how all religions will believe.

Instead, come and discover the Jesus Christ of scripture, the son of the living God. As Peter testified, God is the living God. He does live, we look like him, and Christ is His beloved Son. Nothing is more scriptural than these truths. And their father-son relationship is an example of what Christ wants for each of us.

Take that away as Constantine did in the Nicean creed. And hide the facts as your professional clergy continue to do by calling revealed and restored truths a dangerous cult, and you are left with only the doctrines of men, mingled with scripture.

PS: If you and your ilk continue to rail against the sincere, and often very educated members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as evil, non-Christian cultists, don't be surprised when the day comes that the secular politicians start persecuting Nicean Christians as un-American, dangerous right-wing radicals. At that day, Mormons will stand by and with you in protecting our Constitutional rights to religion. But you might feel a little chagrin.