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I really do try to be like Jesus. One of those ways is that I try as best I can to see everyone here as individuals. For example, there are some Catholics here that think Mary never had sex her entire life, while others think she did. E.G. My wife was a strong Catholic for decades and she always believed that Mary was a virgin only until Jesus was born and then she had honored God’s command and was free to share her body with her husband. But Even those two groups are broken into individuals.

I suppose I am what a Catholic would call a protestant, insomuch as I am a professing Christian but not Catholic. I believe Mary was blessed. How could I not? The Bible clearly teaches that she was. But do I pray to her as an intercessor? Of course not. My intercessor is Jesus, the only perfect human that ever lived and died for my sins and shed His blood as an atonement for my sins. I am washed in His blood.

I could talk about the Eucharist as well as Mary, or a dozen other things with a unique Catholic bent. I could talk about things in Churches I went to that gave me the willies (speaking in tongues, generic interpretations, etc.).

All churches have some of the truth, but there are foundational truths that are required to be Christian. If the particular organization teaches that Jesus is God in the Flesh and he died once for all and was resurrected three days later, the rest of their beliefs will almost certainly mostly fall in line with mine. As long as they don’t do things like pick the exact date Jesus is returning, stuff like that, I’m good.

And the kernal of that last paragraph is why I do not consider Mormonism to teach Christianity. Good news is that I suspect many Mormons don’t know exactly what their church teaches that deviates from the foundation upon which Christianity is built.

I try not to condemn people here but I will sometimes condemn their ideas, and rightly so. I don’t plan on overturning any tables, but I try to follow Jesus and let the chips fall where they may.