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Honest question here. Just asking a serious question.
Is "Mormon" a negative name for you? Does it bother you when we use that term? If so, I sincerely apologize for using it prior to now. I will do my best to stop if I'm told it is. What should we call you? What title or name do you prefer?
Honest question here. Just asking a serious question.
Is "Mormon" a negative name for you? Does it bother you when we use that term? If so, I sincerely apologize for using it prior to now. I will do my best to stop if I'm told it is. What should we call you? What title or name do you prefer?
Christians would be the most logical one, Vizio . . . since they are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Christians would be the most logical one, Vizio . . . since they are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Christian works until one tries to differentiate between different denominations. I suppose the question could be clarified "What is the preferred nomenclature that would be equivalent to Baptist or Catholic."
Honest question here. Just asking a serious question.
Is "Mormon" a negative name for you?
I don't see it as being negative. In the early days of the Church, it clearly was. Now, however, I think very few "Mormons" object to the term. We usually refer to ourselves as "LDS" (Latter-day Saint), but seeing as the Church has a rather prominent (at least in some parts of the country) advertising campaign known as "I'm a Mormon," I'd say there is nothing wrong with it.
There is, however, no such church as "the Mormon Church." If you were to look in a phone book, for example, under "M" for "Mormon Church," you wouldn't find a listing. The official name of the Church is "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
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Does it bother you when we use that term?
No. If you are referring to my denomination per se, either Mormon or LDS is acceptable. If I were Lutheran, you could call me either Lutheran or Christian, since I would technically be both. Since I am LDS, you can call me either LDS or Christian, since I am both.
Honest question here. Just asking a serious question.
Is "Mormon" a negative name for you? Does it bother you when we use that term? If so, I sincerely apologize for using it prior to now. I will do my best to stop if I'm told it is. What should we call you? What title or name do you prefer?
In my experience, it varies. Some LDS folk find it annoying, others do not. Let's not forget that the term "Christian" was once used by unbelievers as a term of derision. The same was and probably still is true of the term "Mormon."
One important factor: On the surface, the statement, "Mormons aren't Christians" sounds like it might be a halfway credible statement. On the other hand, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is not Christian" sounds completely nonsensical.
It is also my experience that while many Christians will fervently parrot the statement, "Mormons aren't Christians" the vast majority haven't the slightest clue why.
It is also my experience that while many Christians will fervently parrot the statement, "Mormons aren't Christians" the vast majority haven't the slightest clue why.
Let me tell you about the very first time I was told that I wasn't a Christian. I was sitting on my front porch one Sunday afternoon in the summer. I was about five years old. A little neighbor boy who was about a year older than I stopped by and proudly told me, "I just got home from church. I'm a Christian!" "Oh," I said. "So am I." "No, you're not," he replied. "You're a Mormon."
Now you tell me me that this six-year-old boy had any idea whatsoever what he was talking about! Somebody had told him, "Mormons aren't Christians," and he'd just happily lapped it up. I don't know for sure who put this idea in his head, but it was almost certainly either his parents or his pastor. He certainly didn't come up with it all by himself. That was my first taste of religious stupidity, and it has stuck with me my whole life. He's probably still saying the same thing, and he probably doesn't know why he's saying it now any more than he did then. (It's a shame he was so ignorant. He was such a good-looking little boy -- my first crush, actually. I bet he turned out to be a real hunk. A bigoted hunk, but a hunk nonetheless. )
I don't see it as being negative. In the early days of the Church, it clearly was. Now, however, I think very few "Mormons" object to the term. We usually refer to ourselves as "LDS" (Latter-day Saint), but seeing as the Church has a rather prominent (at least in some parts of the country) advertising campaign known as "I'm a Mormon," I'd say there is nothing wrong with it.
There is, however, no such church as "the Mormon Church." If you were to look in a phone book, for example, under "M" for "Mormon Church," you wouldn't find a listing. The official name of the Church is "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
No. If you are referring to my denomination per se, either Mormon or LDS is acceptable. If I were Lutheran, you could call me either Lutheran or Christian, since I would technically be both. Since I am LDS, you can call me either LDS or Christian, since I am both.
Thx for the response. Not that you speak for all Mormons but that gives me a good idea. If any other LDS were to tell me it bugged him i wouldn't use it.
In my experience, it varies. Some LDS folk find it annoying, others do not. Let's not forget that the term "Christian" was once used by unbelievers as a term of derision. The same was and probably still is true of the term "Mormon."
One important factor: On the surface, the statement, "Mormons aren't Christians" sounds like it might be a halfway credible statement. On the other hand, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is not Christian" sounds completely nonsensical.
It is also my experience that while many Christians will fervently parrot the statement, "Mormons aren't Christians" the vast majority haven't the slightest clue why.
Unless its Christians who believe John the Baptist was the actual Messiah of Judea, since many Jews believed that John had risen again to life when they heard of the stories of Jesus (according to the Bible).
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