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From: sm@cadre.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame,net.misc,net.religion,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Mormons not Christians!?
Message-ID: <219@cadre.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 20:25:53 EST
Article-I.D.: cadre.219
Posted: Tue Jan 29 20:25:53 1985
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Reply-To: sm@cadre.ARPA (Sean McLinden)
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Summary: 

In article <588@ecsvax.UUCP> bch@ecsvax.UUCP (Byron C. Howes) writes:
>            ...  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.

Last I heard, "Christ" was a title and "Jesus Christ" a person.
Convention suggests that "Christian" should be capitalized for
those reasons (independent of religious belief). Our language
is degenerating enough as it is and besides, capital letters add
flair to a sentence.

Sean McLinden
(A former Teletype user)