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To: Graybeard58
“... the Catholic church says that mormonism is a cult,”

I have Protestant friends who claim Catholicism is a cult. Name-calling isn't helpful.

18 posted on 05/14/2012 11:04:24 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: riverdawg

At least those groups don’t worship multiple gods as mormonism does. In all my long years I have never heard a Protestant call Catholicism a cult, lots of differences but the basic eternal God, the Cross and Reserection are the same, not even close with mormonism.


21 posted on 05/14/2012 11:18:02 AM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: riverdawg

If the word “cult” is defined by a group of like minded individuals gathered around some singular article of faith or opinion, then the word has lots its punch.

In the post Christian era of the USA, we have been divided into many cults—even cult movie viewers, so the word doesn’t carry the punch of insult it use to carry.


24 posted on 05/14/2012 11:32:12 AM PDT by RitaOK (Nevermind, Newt. Forget the convention. I'm trusting God for the rest.)
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To: riverdawg
"I have Protestant friends who claim Catholicism is a cult. Name-calling isn't helpful."

No, name-calling isn't, but laying out facts is.

I'm not Catholic. But comparing Catholicism and Mormonism doesn't work. Catholicism is Christian; Mormonism is not.

32 posted on 05/14/2012 12:30:46 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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