ByteOnBikesLeave us out of it rule
Has there been evidence he’s Christian and conservative/republican? I know his family is, but that’s not really enough.
I’m not attacking the point being made, I just haven’t seen any evidence yet.
Snot FlickermanNot Christian, Mormon which is actually quite the distinction here.
And just because he was raised Mormon does not mean he still follows the faith of his parents.
Evidence he was strictly conservative is slim. There is good commentary about this over on (slight retch) reddit in /r/exmormon including the violent aspects of Mormon scripture and how many Mormons hate both Democrats and Republicans.
Mormons are Christians though. Just because some other Christians don’t want them in their club doesn’t make their flavor of Jesus worship less valid.
That’s like saying “Christians are actually Jewish though. Just because some other Jews don’t want them in their club doesn’t make their flavor of worship less valid.”
They literally have their own holy books that don’t exist for other flavors of Christianity, just as Christianity has their own holy books that don’t exist for Judaism.
renzhexiangjiaoChristians believe that Jesus is the son of God and that he died on the cross and was resurrected three days later. Do Mormons not believe this?
The Old Testament is literally the Jewish Tanakh re-arranged and plus or minus some books (depending on translation/edition). Only the New Testament is fully strictly Christian
Do Christians believe that Indigenous Americans are the “Lost Children of Israel” who came to the Americas over the land bridge in Alaska and that Jesus appeared to them here in the Americas?
Because Mormons believe that, and they have an entire holy book dedicated to ideas like that beyond the New Testament just as the New Testament is beyond the Tanakh.
I honestly think Christians and Mormons would take offense to this characterization with how different their belief systems truly are while being rooted in the same ideas. Just as Jewish and Christians would take offense to being compared in the same way.
I mean, I hate fucking religion too, dawg, but this ain’t it.
Nah, Mormons absolutely consider themselves Christian. They use the term in meetings and I'm sure that I've seen it in their marketing material as well. They just you know, retconned Christianity to say that they were the true Christians the whole time. And tbf, that's true for all the Christian sects, the only difference really is scale.
Source: exmo
Not to belabor a point, but even if they consider themselves Christian, there’s a big difference between having different interpretations of the same book and having a whole ass other previously non-existent book that becomes part of the religious canon. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any sects of Protestant Christianity that have a whole ass other book. They have wildly different interpretations of the same book, but that is fundamentally different than having a new prophet and gospel.
I get your point here, but just because they’re unique doesn’t disqualify them from their claim to Christianity. It’s kinda like saying a tank isn’t a motor-vehicle because it has a cannon.