You are speaking of the fundamentalist Latter Day Saints. Like many religions, they have evolved. Those who live in places like Bountiful, BC are the ones you are talking about - not modern day Latter Day Saints.
Are Mormons Christians?
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Well Goober, I admire your admission that you constructed your own version of Christianity rather than accept a more orthodox view. See, religion is a construct rather than a Truth.
Well, I think this is the problem with people in society today. You can be example A. A person that just doesn't get it. I am not religious. I don't have a rooting interest. The Mormons call themselves Christians. so too bad, there is no precident to suggest any Christian is more or less real than any other.
Morons and Nutters is a bit of a troll job too. Only morons and nutters see the need to come on to a silly forum and spread hate and troll like you apear to be doing, as well. If there are people that like associating with a religion, whether they believe every little piece of doctrine as literal truth or not, good on them. The mormons help each other get ahead, much like the jews do. They are usccessful people and I like how they operate their church, they have no 200,000 dollar a year pastors ripping off gtheir sheep. They appear ot be moral, friendly, people as well. as far as churches go, they aren't nearly as crazy as most evangelical churches are.
I have nothing against mormons.
What is a christian? A long time I been reading for answers. Basically a christian is an amalgam of preceding solar worshiping cults all sharing traditions and teachings from a past and location largely unrecorded. Mr Romney's god is power. Same as the rest of the psycopathic western political class. No one in their right mind would have it teach children about the spirit.
Wow, a noob. Oh my, I guess having several thousand ignorant posts makes you legitmate? I wasn't trolling either. My comments are clearly not hate filled crap designed to stoke the flames. Whatever I've seen from you on here has been complete and utter nonsense. You're one of those d bags that tries to organize your stupidity in logically inconsistent ways and then just keep banging the drum until nobody has any patience for debate with you anymore, at which time you declare victory. You're not the only forum troll I've eveer seen, although you are one of the least intelligent ones.
Anytime. Personally I find them all pretty foolish, with no roots in reality, but the United Church at least has in its favour a better recognition of reality and is much less judgmental than most religious organizations. It does, for instance, accept gender equality, doesn't lay a lot of strictures on you about what you can and cannot do or what you must believe to belong, and accepts things like homosexuality and the transgendered as facts of life.
The main difference between the Roman Catholic Church and the United Church when it comes to Homosexuality is that the Catholic Church still thinks that the ACT is "bad" while being homosexual is not. Abstinence is expected. This may not seem like a big distinction to some, and while I do not personally agree with the Churches determination in this and do side with the United Churches interpretation, I do see the distinction being made and still hold out hope that the Church will see the error of their ways, like the United Church has, and change their "ruling" on this in the future.
I would like to see the Catholic Church allow their priests to wed. That would be a good first step in the rules of the church.
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No, Priests are married to the Church, the same as Nuns. It is a "calling" as well as a vocation. It is expected that ALL their energy's be used for Christ, the Church, and mankind.
True. However, the acceptance of all these things has taken it's toll on the church. When homosexuals were allowed to become ministers, the church split and many people moved on to other churches or they opened new churches. One has to assume that there are any number of "un-married" ministers in many churches that could be homosexual and the United Church just made it open. Christ Community Church is one of those churches (a break away). Homosexual people can attend services but they cannot be a member of that church. Women cannot be in "charge" of anything in the church. My son is on the council of their church. He brought in a female as a part of a group of people who would do things like choose a new minister. A guy who was supposed to be his good friend, quit the church and went elsewhere. Feels my son is putting women in places in the church where they don't belong. That's why I say that - many "christians" are not very christian. Many non-christian people (by church standards) are more christian than people who claim they are but show by their actions they are not very nice at all.
Does it also have a connection with the Disciples as all were men and I assume unmarried?
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For the first 400 years or so they were permitted to marry. Then some pope changed the rules and like good little sheeple they followed.
There is no historical evidence that Peter was ever in Rome. His martyrdom in Rome is strickly a Catholic traditional make believe story. Catholics claim there roots back to the apostles, but real evidence shows far from the truth.Well, you're in luck today ol' buddy.It's rooted in standard Roman Catholic dogma called the apostolic succession, a claim that all duly constituted bishops have had the Spirit instilled in them by men authorized to do so by performing the proper rituals, all the way back to Jesus' disciples. The Pope, as Bishop of Rome, traces his succession directly back to the church's founders, Paul and most particularly Peter, the first Bishop of Rome and the nominal rock on which the church is built, so he gets to be first among equals in the crowd of bishops.
Apostolic Succession | Catholic Answers
I agree