The guy who wrote the Constitution would like a word with Mikey and his fellow christian nationalists:
'Religion and government both exist in greater purity the more they are kept apart.' --James Madison
Madison also pointed out that any government that can set up christianity as the state religion can also decide which version of christianity is only accepted one. We should all be on our guard about elected pols who want to do away with 'all this separation of church and state junk.'
And the idea of some of the least educated and historically illiterate people in Congress (I’m talking about you, Boebert, MTG, etc) calling the “separation of church and state” a “myth” is totally ludicrous, given the exact wording of the first phrase of the First Amendment.
These people do not appear to either read or have even rudimentary comprehension skills: not only was this enumerated in Jefferson’s letter to Danford Baptist, but the Treaty of Tripoli makes it QUITE clear that the Founders did NOT view the USA as a “Christian nation”.
Not to mention that James Madison vetoed two bills for violating the First Amendment's Establishment Clause - one that would have funded a church in DC and the other that would provided federal land for use of the Baptist Church. Madison said, 'no way' to both.
Any Christian group, Catholics, Mormon, Episcopal and others not part of these fundamentalists - that supports these folks would find themselves to be out groups just like Jewish people; their rights would be trampled too.
Mormons don't subscribe to traditional christianity in many respects. For example, most traditional christians don't believe 'As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be.' That's considered heresy.
That's just one example of the many basic doctrinal differences between mormonism and traditional christianity. Trad christians don't believe there are three different heavens, they don't believe that Jesus and Lucifer were brothers, or that god was once a man with a physical body, and on and on and on. Traditional christians believe in the existence of hell, mormons don't. They don't believe the gospel had to be 'restored'. The list is endless. That's why many traditional christians reject LDS as christians.
If mormons want to call themselves christians, they can do so. If traditional christians reject that claim, they can do so.
The guy who wrote the Constitution would like a word with Mikey and his fellow christian nationalists:
'Religion and government both exist in greater purity the more they are kept apart.' --James Madison
Madison also pointed out that any government that can set up christianity as the state religion can also decide which version of christianity is only accepted one. We should all be on our guard about elected pols who want to do away with 'all this separation of church and state junk.'
And the idea of some of the least educated and historically illiterate people in Congress (I’m talking about you, Boebert, MTG, etc) calling the “separation of church and state” a “myth” is totally ludicrous, given the exact wording of the first phrase of the First Amendment.
These people do not appear to either read or have even rudimentary comprehension skills: not only was this enumerated in Jefferson’s letter to Danford Baptist, but the Treaty of Tripoli makes it QUITE clear that the Founders did NOT view the USA as a “Christian nation”.
Not to mention that James Madison vetoed two bills for violating the First Amendment's Establishment Clause - one that would have funded a church in DC and the other that would provided federal land for use of the Baptist Church. Madison said, 'no way' to both.
Any Christian group, Catholics, Mormon, Episcopal and others not part of these fundamentalists - that supports these folks would find themselves to be out groups just like Jewish people; their rights would be trampled too.
Absolutely. And you count the Jehovah's Witnesses, the 7th Day Adventists, and on and on and on......
Mormons are not Christians FYI
They don't believe that Christ was the Son of God? That's news to me and my Mormon friends...
Mormons don't subscribe to traditional christianity in many respects. For example, most traditional christians don't believe 'As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be.' That's considered heresy.
But is that enough to disqualify them as Christians?
That's just one example of the many basic doctrinal differences between mormonism and traditional christianity. Trad christians don't believe there are three different heavens, they don't believe that Jesus and Lucifer were brothers, or that god was once a man with a physical body, and on and on and on. Traditional christians believe in the existence of hell, mormons don't. They don't believe the gospel had to be 'restored'. The list is endless. That's why many traditional christians reject LDS as christians.
If mormons want to call themselves christians, they can do so. If traditional christians reject that claim, they can do so.