Well, anyone can call himself anything in theory, can’t he? I can call myself young, slim, and not-bald.
It’s only in regards to religion that we complete lose all ability for rational thought, which in itself is very un-Biblical.
On this, I keep it simple. The Bible emphatically teaches that there is one God. Christians affirm this teaching, Mormons deny it.
Can a religion that affirms many true gods be the same as a religion that affirms one and only one?
It isn’t rocket science.
Well, there I'd agree with you actually. For just the name "Christian" I can overlook the heterodoxy on the Trinity, but the polytheism, well....that's a problem right there.
“Can a religion that affirms many true gods be the same as a religion that affirms one and only one?”
Despite loving the debate for the sake of the debate, I agree with your conclusion. Please note that in my previous posting I did say I was neither Christian or Mormon - thus differentiating between the two.
President Lincoln once got into an argument with a man who insisted that if they re-framed the issue by calling it another name, there would be no disagreement.
The exasperated President is said to have replied, “Look here. If you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs would it have?”
“Why, five”, said the man.
“Wrong!” said Lincoln. “Four. You can call it a leg, but it’s still a tail.”