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01-06-2008, 03:57 AM
http://blog.beliefnet.com/blogalogue/2007/07/lets-call-mormons-nontradition.html
By Orson Scott Card
It has truly been a pleasure to converse — or at least take turns speaking — with Dr. Mohler. His attitude of quiet analysis is a refreshing change from the vitriol and slander that I’ve seen from so many of his denomination when they talk about my religion.
His final message is reassuring in many ways. First, his assurance that Mormons can be good citizens and should not be deprived of their right to an equal place in the American political scene should be adopted as the guideline for people of all denominations.
It is hard to think of any religion that is not persecuted somewhere. The world is full of religions because people do not agree about the nature or even the existence of divinity; yet America was founded on a commitment to the idea that differing opinions about God should not be factored into a person’s eligibility for public office.
When Dr. Mohler quotes Paul’s warning that the Church of Christ should reject “a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you,” we Mormons wholeheartedly agree. We believe, and history supports, that the “traditional Christianity” that Dr. Mohler so able explicates is remote indeed from the gospel that Paul taught.
So I am happy to accept the formulation suggested by Dr. Mohler’s last sentence: “Mormonism is not just another form of Christianity — it is incompatible with ‘traditional Christian orthodoxy.’”
Amen! Absolutely correct! We send out missionaries to every country that will allow them to enter precisely because we believe that the gospel of Jesus Christ is incompatible with “traditional Christian orthodoxy.”
**SCHNIPP**
Excellent article on what is going to be an increasingly ugly mudslinging topic for the rest of the year: Religion in Politics, specifically Mitt Romney's Politics. The Democrats haven't done too much sniping yet, but that's only because they are sniping at each other for the moment. But I look for the left to latch onto Gov. Romney's Mormon faith and try to savage him with it.
It's amazing that this can happen in our Country at this late date. The United States was founded on Freedom of Religion, not Freedom from Religion as many in the Godless athiest Left would have us believe. If Romney wins the election, the Country will be in very safe, and moral, hands.
By Orson Scott Card
It has truly been a pleasure to converse — or at least take turns speaking — with Dr. Mohler. His attitude of quiet analysis is a refreshing change from the vitriol and slander that I’ve seen from so many of his denomination when they talk about my religion.
His final message is reassuring in many ways. First, his assurance that Mormons can be good citizens and should not be deprived of their right to an equal place in the American political scene should be adopted as the guideline for people of all denominations.
It is hard to think of any religion that is not persecuted somewhere. The world is full of religions because people do not agree about the nature or even the existence of divinity; yet America was founded on a commitment to the idea that differing opinions about God should not be factored into a person’s eligibility for public office.
When Dr. Mohler quotes Paul’s warning that the Church of Christ should reject “a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you,” we Mormons wholeheartedly agree. We believe, and history supports, that the “traditional Christianity” that Dr. Mohler so able explicates is remote indeed from the gospel that Paul taught.
So I am happy to accept the formulation suggested by Dr. Mohler’s last sentence: “Mormonism is not just another form of Christianity — it is incompatible with ‘traditional Christian orthodoxy.’”
Amen! Absolutely correct! We send out missionaries to every country that will allow them to enter precisely because we believe that the gospel of Jesus Christ is incompatible with “traditional Christian orthodoxy.”
**SCHNIPP**
Excellent article on what is going to be an increasingly ugly mudslinging topic for the rest of the year: Religion in Politics, specifically Mitt Romney's Politics. The Democrats haven't done too much sniping yet, but that's only because they are sniping at each other for the moment. But I look for the left to latch onto Gov. Romney's Mormon faith and try to savage him with it.
It's amazing that this can happen in our Country at this late date. The United States was founded on Freedom of Religion, not Freedom from Religion as many in the Godless athiest Left would have us believe. If Romney wins the election, the Country will be in very safe, and moral, hands.