Ansel . . . you're completely missing the point. I wasn't defending mormonism. I was pointing out that much of ancient chrstianity accepts "deification." If "deification" is wrong when mormons advocate it, it should be wrong when anyone else advocates it as well (although the "gxd" of mormonism is obviously very different from the "gxd" of traditional chrstianity).
I am as theologically anti-mormon as anyone. A mormon president doesn't scare me because all our presidents have been either skeptics or members of a false religion. Mormonism is a weird and false religion but so is every version of chrstianity. The fact that the ancient church fathers were writing about the "deification" of man centuries before Joseph Smith did should tell you something, shouldn't it?
I'm a Noachide. I'll never get to vote for a Noachide president. I'll always have to pick the candidate who comes the closest to my own beliefs. And now so will you.
If you aren’t saying that Christianity agrees with Mormonism that you become a God and have your own planet to rule over with your own worshipers, just like our Christian God, then why bother me?