There are a few other post Reformation position papers which explicitly instruct.
You make my point explicitly!
Every denomination at some point has had leader(s) who have done or said something that we NOW would not consider kosher, so to speak.
And the original poster was trying to heap all the sins of the past LDS squarely on Romney's shoulders, as if Romney is out there daily praising every single thing every Mormon ever said or did.
Consider: some segments of Catholic/Protestant Ireland even TODAY don't consider each other to be true Christians. Something we Americans find deplorable, I believe.
Billy Graham, who is considered an icon of Christain evangelism, at one time railed against Catholics as somehow betraying the New Testament.
Graham, and almost all evangelicals, have modified their attitudes toward other denominations -- and I believe Freepers should do the same for Romney.
I posted in response to your post:
:::I just don’t see Baptists, Lutherans, Presbyterians, etc. releasing position papers that claim the Roman Catholics or any other denomination for that matter don’t sufficiently have the REAL “truth” of Christianity.
Maybe they did recently, and I missed it.
That RCC claim of superiority just smacks of intolerance, pure and simple.
And if one can’t see that, they are blinding themselves to reality.
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10,550 posted on 11/06/2007 6:02:43 PM CST by Rock&RollRepublican :::
The Catholic Church follows the teachings of Jesus Christ. It’s not that we have a superiority complex that is intolerant of others; it is just that we follow the holy teachings of our forebears, which go unbrokenly back to the Apostles, and Jesus. We consider that the various breakaway denominations are following men.
IF YOU ARE a Lutheran, your religion was founded by Martin Luther, an ex-monk of the Catholic Church, in the year 1517.
IF YOU belong to the Church of England, your religion was founded by King Henry VIII in the year 1534, because the Pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to re-marry.
IF YOU ARE a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox in Scotland in the year 1560.
IF YOU ARE a Congregationalist, your religion was originated by Robert Brown in Holland in 1582.
IF YOU ARE a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1605.
IF YOU ARE of the Dutch Reformed church, you recognize Michaelis Jones as founder, because he originated your religion in New York in 1628.
IF YOU ARE a Protestant Episcopalian, your religion was an offshoot of the Church of England founded by Samuel Seabury in the American colonies in the 17th century.
IF YOU ARE a Methodist, your religion was launched by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744.
IF YOU ARE a Unitarian, Theophilus Lindley founded your church in London in 1774.
IF YOU ARE a Mormon (Latter Day Saints), Joseph Smith started your religion in Palmyra, NY, in 1829.
IF YOU worship with the Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865.
IF YOU ARE a Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year in which your religion was born and to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy as its founder.
IF YOU belong to one of the religious organizations known as “Church of the Nazarene,” “Pentecostal Gospel,” “Holiness Church,” “Pilgrim Holiness Church,” “Jehovah’s Witnesses,” your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded by men within the past one hundred years.
You may have been responding to some claims against Romney, but I was responding what you actually posted.