[Liberty1970]

Notwithstanding all of the above, Latter-day Saints are, and continue to be, more than willing to allow these folk the right to call themselves Christians. All we ask is that they return the same courtesy.

Sorry, but words have meaning, and beliefs have consequences. I like the Mormons I've known personally, but their beliefs are not those of Christianity. Calling green 'purple' only confuses things. Theologically the gulf between monotheistic Christians (even defined very broadly) and polytheistic Mormons are vast.

Or to put it another way, it is inconsistent to call Mormons 'Christians' and then not do the same for Jews, who are far, far, far more similar to Christians in their theology. For that matter Islam is more similar to Christianity in a theological sense as well, so the only way to include Mormonism as 'Christian' is to make the latter a vast, meaningless tent.

[ensignbay]

Liberty1970, your basic argument boils down to: Mormons don’t believe exactly as you do, so you, as the arbiter of the term Christian, refuse them that designation.

It’s funny because it IS true that Mormons don’t play that game. We don’t say “You all don’t believe in Christ the way we do so YOU aren’t Christian.”

[Grunthor]

“Sorry, but words have meaning”

Not if you are Mormon.

[Grunthor]

“the only way to include Mormonism as ‘Christian’ is to make the latter a vast, meaningless tent.”

I think you might have just stumbled onto their nefarious plan..

[ensignbay]

By the way Liberty1970, your argument about Jews may as well be called Christians is ridiculous. They don’t call themselves Christians because they don’t believe in Him as God and Savior of the world. Isn’t that a basic and clear definition of a “Christian”?

[magritte]

Uh, Jews are NOWHERE near Christians, as they believe Christians follow a false Messiah...Mormons believe in some of the basic tenets of early Christianity and tend to reject a lot of Church-related beliefs, or it that Protestants...magritte