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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Poll: Evangelicals May Double Their Support for Obama in 2012 Election [View all]Gore1FL
(21,027 posts)27. Anyone who claims Jesus as their personal savior is a Christian.
No one group (in the referenced article it is the Catholics) gets to decide.
The linked article argues that Muslims believe in Jesus, but they aren't Christian. That isn't a parallel. They don;t believe Jesus is their personal savior. I believe that Ronald Reagan was president from 1981 to 1989. That doesn't make me a Reagan supporter, or a believer in his doctrines.
Mormons simply add additional craziness and contradictions to and already crazy and contradicting religious story.
To assert to the contrary one must invoke the "No true Scotsman" fallacy.
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Poll: Evangelicals May Double Their Support for Obama in 2012 Election [View all]
Drunken Irishman
Apr 2012
OP
If this separates the evangelicals from the fundamentalists, it will be good for them as well as us
saras
Apr 2012
#15
The GOP establishment has told evangelicals that Wall St. rules the party and that..
LetTimmySmoke
Apr 2012
#19