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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   Öjevind Lång wrote:   
   > "John W. Kennedy"  skrev i meddelandet   
   > news:%f4Yh.8$r67.7@newsfe12.lga...   
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   >> The Jehovah's Witnesses explicitly separate themselves from "Christendom",   
   >> but all the Mormons I know demand to be called "Christians", despite the   
   >> fact that certain of their doctrines are far more removed from the   
   >> Christian mainstream than Islam is. (Most especially, they maintain God to   
   >> be a creature, compared to which, quarrels over Trinitarianism are as   
   >> nothing.)   
   >   
   > Thank you! I'm amazed at the at the Mormon attitude that they are   
   > Christians.   
      
   The defense of the average Mormon-in-the-street tends to be limited to:   
      1) Hey, it says right in our name that we're the Church of JESUS   
   CHRIST of Latter-Day Saints, and   
      2) We believe things about Christ.   
   I don't know what might be attempted by anyone learned.   
      
   --   
   John W. Kennedy   
   "...when you're trying to build a house of cards, the last thing you   
   should do is blow hard and wave your hands like a madman."   
      --  Rupert Goodwins   
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