There were almost 200 responses to my blog post titled “Is Mormonism Christian?” I approved about half of them. Many were simply off topic, uncivil or too long for posting here. This blog is for civil, respectful, constructive dialogue, not preaching, flaming or advocacy.
Many of the comments were by people claiming to be members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I usually gave them the benefit of the doubt. In a few cases I had reason to suspect they were pretending to be Mormon/LDS in order to put the worst “face” possible on that belief system and church. There are people who are heavily invested in keeping groups they consider cults from being considered anything else. There exists an “industry” of anti-cult propaganda.
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