Mormons are not Christians and we Christians are called to expose false teachers, false Christs and prophets. Jesus said himself and warned the early Church about false Christs coming to us as wolves in sheeps clothing. Mormonism does follow orthodox Christian doctrine and undermines the original Hebrew and Greek scrolls (The Holy Bible)and replaces it with the Book Of Mormon thus an entirely different or modified Gospel of Jesus Christ. Paul wrote that anyone who taught another gospel let him anathema (Denounced). This is bibilical and appropriate behavior. You can call it persecution all you want but what really amounts to is admonition and correction.
Correction: Mormonism does not follow orthodox Christian doctrine......
32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.Who are you that you can speak for him?
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.Have you Put our religion to "The Test"?
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;Thus Satan brought to pass the fall of the earthly church, fulfillment of prophecy so that it might be restored, also according to prophecy:
18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.Reader, note this is from acts, Jesus had already come for the first time, yet the Bible speaks prophetically of a Prophet who will come before Jesus returns and Restore all things. This prophet will be like unto moses (he will give law and write scripture) He will instruct you in all things, and whoso will not hear him will be cut off from the lord.
19 ¶ Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
~”Mormons are not Christians...”~
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You do realize, of course, that your opinion in the matter isn’t terribly important?