Do you think of Mormons as Christians?

that kind of thinking is rampant. our youth group leader loudly pronounced one night that she didn't want any of us to be Catholics, only to have one of the attendees blow up because he was Catholic (not a member of the church, but an occasional visitor).

besides Hell is gonna be rad

hell is other potatoes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_potatoes

^^^one of the best parts of my childhood years in Utah

I don't have any experience with Mormon communities outside the Big U. I wonder about the differences.

Oh wait I went to Colorado City once, but those folks are pretty far outside of mainstream Mormonism. It was fucking scary.

there's a unitarian church in cambridge, the vicar or whatever he is is very "I play the drums in a local combo" (he may actually play the drums in a local combo)

When it's not too hot to turn the oven on we have baked potatoes for dinner once every couple of weeks but we're atheists so it follows.

It took a lot of explanation to convince him that no, the mainstream Mormon church has not endorsed polygamy and has in fact condemned it since before 1900.

Guessing, but I reckon you'd find a lot of australians would think this of mormons too tbh.

plus I stopped wanting to get up so early so I quit going

Why I Am Not A Christian

(well, nearly everything else as well, but that is how my apostasy began)

yes, they are christian. in a way that will likely prevent me from ever identifying as christian.

sorta feel like christianity was a barely necessary condition for their foundation, imo. convenient foundation.

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Neither here nor there, but I was talking to someone recently who spent her freshman year of college at a midwestern liberal arts school that has some reformed church linkage (and iirc, a link to an ilxor) and she told me that her roommates sat her down and tried an intervention because her family was Catholic and they thought she was going to hell.

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lol

had a really funny & uncomfortable convo about the mormons two years ago. they say in business never talk about politics or religion. my group had a visit from our director, who was from india. we took him out for lunch, and all he wanted to know about was what was mitt romney about and what is this mormonism he has. so two lapsed lutherans an ex catholic and a practicing something-or-other (none fans of romney either) tried to explain this stuff to him with some fairness. eh, they mostly live out west, they have their own extra book of the bible, believe jesus came to north america at some pt, used to be okay w/ polygamy but they quit that a long time ago, great at sales etc.

the punchline is our director was from goa, and was portuguese catholic. we were mostly surprised he'd never heard of mormonism before until romney started making the US political news.

anyway, my answer is yes, but a little different, like

Always think of these little dudes though.

http://www.marmotpress.org/images/sittingMarmotL.jpg

Looks like he's chillin' in the light of Christ if you ask me.

I was wondering if you were going to find that comment!

There was a time when ALL so-called Christians were Catholic.

think you'd struggle to get this by anyone of orthodox bent. I'm fascinated by all the debates about christian lineages, schisms, offshoots etc. & love seeing the different family trees&timelines different groups put out as corrective propaganda. dogmatism is obv boring but the more subtle ways that the more liminal groups relate to wider/older communities&traditions is often v interesting, e.g. rastafarianism & the ethiopian orthodox church, haile selassie sending over a bishop to try to explain things, bob marley getting baptized &c.

Well, yeah. Those guys.

how can you take your clergy seriously if they don't wear hats?

http://powerpointparadise.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/OrthodoxGodfatherPatriarch_kirills_folding_cross.gif

There was a time when ALL so-called Christians were Catholic.

this is like the most roman catholic thing to say, ever

ok it took me like 5 loops to see what happened there, looool.

That gif is amazing.

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prob mentioned this once or twice but I went to a Lutheran school for a few years (which turned out to be run by the farthest right of the Lutheran synods, mom just put me there because my cousins went there and she thought all Lutherans were like ELCA Lutherans) and during the section of religion class about cults we probably did a week about Mormonism and its evils

of course my snarky lil irreligious brain immediately started being fond of them as a result, whatever the screws said I thought the opposite, \m/

this was the same school where I so bravely argued against their ludicrous creation science textbooks, leading to schoolyard bullying over my belief in evolution

i was raised fundie christian and yeah i was told that mormons were blasphemous hellbound weirdos again and again. ii was pretty surprised when mitt romney won the republican nomination because i was sure that the christian right would never in a million years align behind a mormon, esp after all of the talk in GWB's heyday that directly named the republican party as the party that Jesus himself is rooting for and talks to personally. i think it only happened because the field was THAT weak. james dobson and co just kind of backed away slowly and waited for 2016.

also on norm macdonald's podcast larry king said that he is married to a devout mormon, even though he does not personally believe in the afterlife or god, and that they don't talk about religion. which was pretty unusual imo /ime.

didn't think intermarriage was a "thing" as far as Mormons who are in full standing with the church goes but what do I know

Mormons seem paradoxical like that. Obviously, they're all about spreading the word and knocking on doors and sealing marriages and keeping outsiders at arm's length. BUT, they've never seem too haughty about it. Like maybe they realize they'll look more attractive if they don't turn their nose up at non-LDS members drinking a coffee like the Baptists do if you happen to pull out a longneck at a tailgate?

I couldn't stand Romney. He may have been one of the most red-faced, short-tempered egomaniacs to run on his party's ticket in 35 years. BUT while he was getting pissy about corporations not being people or getting called two-faced on abortion, he had this amazing "Well okey-dokey!" attitude toward voters he'd meet who'd spew about his religion being an amoral cult set up by a false prophet. "Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks, it's what makes America so strong amirite?"

Look up what the Mormons call "soaking" if you really want to dig how they try to get around staying sacred.

I've heard it called 'docking' but I think the non-mormon usage has eclipsed the mormon usage

Also Mormon bubbling

Hey, what happens on the trampoline is what happens on the trampoline.

http://i.imgur.com/gOqJJU8.png

Could the GOP have found anyone who looked more like Patrick Bateman? Good Lord.

It's like being made to play with kids you don't like: 'But Daaad, they're not even trinitarians!#