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In reply to the discussion: Anyone wanna disagree with this? [View all]bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)I think they use it for Cover
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/13/opinion/im-a-mormon-not-a-christian.html?_r=2&hp
I want to be on record about this. Im about as genuine a Mormon as youll find a templegoer with a Utah pedigree and an administrative position in a congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I am also emphatically not a Christian.
For the curious, the dispute can be reduced to Jesus. Mormons assert that because they believe Jesus is divine, they are Christians by default. Christians respond that because Mormons dont believe in accordance with the Nicene Creed promulgated in the fourth century that Jesus is also the Father and the Holy Spirit, the Jesus that Mormons have in mind is someone else altogether. The Mormon reaction is incredulity. The Christian retort is exasperation. Rinse and repeat.
I am confident that I am not the only person Mormon or Christian who has had enough of the acrimonious niggling from both sides over the nature of the trinity, the authority of the creeds, the significance of grace and works, the union of Christs divinity and humanity, and the real color of Gods underwear. Im perfectly happy not being a Christian. My Mormon fellows, most of whom will argue earnestly for their Christian legitimacy, will scream bloody murder that I dont represent them. I dont. They dont represent me, either.