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From: bch@ecsvax.UUCP (Byron C. Howes)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame,net.misc,net.religion,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Mormons not Christians!?
Message-ID: <588@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 16:07:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 29 16:07:52 1985
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References: <367@hercules.UUCP> <1784@uvacs.UUCP> <662@uwmacc.UUCP> <837@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: bch@ecsvax.UUCP (Byron C. Howes)
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Summary: 

In article <837@reed.UUCP> schmidt@reed.UUCP writes:
 
>	Many Christian groups do not consider The Church of Jesus Christ
>of Latter Day Saints to be Christian.  Therefore, it is not rhetorically
>incorrect to say Mormons are not Christian.
 
Many Christian groups do consider the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints to be Christian.  Therefore, it is not rhetorically
incorrect to say Mormons *are* Christian.

By any objective standard, the Mormons would appear to be disciples of
Christ following an intellectual tradition different from that of
Apostolic christianity.  That they differ from "mainstream" christi-
anity in this day and age and that they aren't fundamentalist
christians does not preclude them from being generically christian.
Remember, at one time "mainstream" christianity did not consider
protestant christians to be christians.



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                                              Byron Howes
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