The difference is not one of theology, it is of truth versus lunacy.
LDS doctrine is so far removed from the truth that I cannot trust a person who believes it.
“LDS doctrine is so far removed from the truth that I cannot trust a person who believes it.”
I agree. How can you trust a person that believes that God was once a man and that men can become gods?
Ok, let’s test me to see how far removed I am from the truth. I am a typical Mormon. Please focus on the basics and then let’s go from there.:
1. I believe in God.
2. I believe in the Bible.
3. I believe in Jesus Christ.
4. I believe that were are all a spirit family here on Earth.
5. I believe the moral foundation of our society is the ten commandments.
6. I believe in the God given inalienable rights of all mankind endowed by our creator.
7. I believe in Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
8. I believe in the freedom of religion so long as those rights do not undermine the inalienable rights of mankind.
9. I believe that Jesus Christ will come again to rule upon the Earth. He will visit the Jews and reveal to them that he was their Savior which they killed.
10. I believe in being honest, true, chaste, and benevolent and I feel remorseful when I fall short.
11. I believe that I can’t do it all on my own. On the other hand, I believe nothing is impossible for two people when one of them is God.
That’s a beggining. So far, where is the threat to society? Where is my grip on reality gone? Where is the lunacy? If you criticize my foundational sense of goodness and reason then you undermine at the same time all of other people of good faith. You are unknowling fueling the Christopher Hitchens view of the world.