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From: geb@cadre.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Mormons not Christians!?
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Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 18:20:12 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 28 18:20:12 1985
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Reply-To: geb@cadre.ARPA (Gordon E. Banks)
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In article <315@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> scott@gargoyle.UUCP writes:
>I would highly recommend the book, "The Mormon Papers", available
>at any Christian bookstore for a rigorous treatment of why Mormons
>aren't Christians by any definition not given by Mormons.  It
>discusses their "scriptures", doctrines, history...  I'd be glad
>to provide a better reference for anybody who wants the book
>but can't find it.  Also "The Kingdom of the Cults" has a good
>(briefer) summary of the same issues.  The latter also discusses
>Jehovah's Witnesses, the Unification Church, and a lot of other
>cults that are a lot further away from Christianity.
>
>	Scott Deerwester
>	(now at) University of Chicago
>	Graduate Library School

The literature you find in "Christian" bookstores is about as "rigorous"
and objective as the news over radio Moscow.  I suggest you trip on
over to Regenstein Library (I suppose you know how to find that)
and browse through some of the excellent collection on the Mormons.  
As a matter of fact, the University of Chicago press publishes an
excellent non-biased book called "The Mormons" by Thomas F. O'Dea,
who is a catholic priest.  He certainly does not suggest that the
Mormons are non-Christians.  I also suggest you check a few
encyclopedias, like Britannica.  I know of not one authority
on the sociology of religions that would classify either
the Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses as non-Christian.
In actuality, the only people who don't consider Mormons
to be Christian are the usual set of "born-again" loonies.