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Why single Mormons out? Why not exclude Rastafari who also consider themselves Christians (but are not considered Christians by many non-Rastafari Christians)?
by chimeracoder 12y ago
Why single Mormons out? Why not exclude Rastafari who also consider themselves Christians (but are not considered Christians by many non-Rastafari Christians)?
Heck, why even include Protestants? Historically, "orthodox" Catholics consider them to be heretics as well[1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari
[1] and among some pockets of Catholicism, this belief holds strong to this day
- baddox 12y agoI didn't mean to advocate singling Mormons out specifically. Like I said, my proposal is to define groups such that each group's members all consider each other to be orthodox. > Heck, why even include Protestants? Historically, "orthodox" Catholics consider them to be heretics as well[1]. When I listed "Mormons" and "non-Mormon Christians," I didn't mean to imply that those would literally be the only two groups within Christianity. I was just giving an example of separating people into groups based on mutually-recognized orthodoxy.
- meepmorp 12y agoOr why even include Catholics, as there's a significant minority of Protestants who consider them to be a false church engaging in polytheism - asking saints for intercession with God on their behalf looks a lot like praying to them from the outside.