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To: tortdog
Dear tortdog,

It’s a little breathless, but hardly ugly or bigoted.

“’>Think the Mormons are just a group of nice folks who uphold family values, clean living, and American patriotism? Think again.’

“Of course not. Mormons are a group of nasty folks who crap on family values, espouse perverted living, and spits on the American flag.”

The problem with your misinterpretation herein is that you’ve missed the word “just.” The author’s point is that Mormons typically are nice folks who uphold family values, clean living and American patriotism.

But that there is more to the LDS religion.

And, at least from a Catholic doctrinal point of view, that “more” is that the LDS organization is not part of Christianity. In going from Catholic to LDS, one is not moving from one part of Christianity to another, but from Christianity to non-Christian belief.

That is Catholic doctrine.

Catholicism does not recognize the LDS religion as being a Christian religion. Catholicism does not recognize the LDS god as being ontologically the same being as the God Whom Catholics (and Christians) worship.

Catholicism doesn’t consider LDS baptism to be valid.

If you think it’s bigoted to say what is true about Catholic teaching about the LDS organization then I think you need to reconsider your definitions. Drawing real distinctions between things isn’t bigotry.


sitetest

102 posted on 02/13/2008 11:09:41 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest

>Catholicism does not recognize the LDS religion as being a Christian religion

Cite please.


103 posted on 02/13/2008 11:27:37 AM PST by tortdog
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