Are We Too Christian? Culturally I Mean

[Senator]

I think you have a bad attitude.

 

I've noticed an uncanny ability to see an immense amount of good in "them" when I'm less uptight about "us".

 

I've simply known far too many wonderful Christian people of various stripes, that are every bit as worthy of the title of "Christian" or "Disciple" of Jesus Christ, and emulators

and possessors of the Gospel of Christ, as are those of my own stripe.

[JLHPROF]

I think you have a bad attitude.

 

I've noticed an uncanny ability to see an immense amount of good in "them" when I'm less uptight about "us".

 

I've simply known far too many wonderful Christian people of various stripes, that are every bit as worthy of the title of "Christian" or "Disciple" of Jesus Christ, and emulators

and possessors of the Gospel of Christ, as are those of my own stripe.

 

Being a "good person" and being a true Christian are not synonymous.  That is a secular notion and limits the gospel that Christ taught to just the bare bones and ignores the complex teachings Christ also taught.

 

If we truly believe in the restored gospel then we understand that Christ taught all the same doctrines and ordinances in his dispensation as Joseph Smith restored in this last one (with just one or two execeptions).  To be a good true Christian or a good Mormon is a very different endeavor than the wonderful "traditional" Christians can accept.

 

The "all you need is love" Christianity is a fiction.

[Ahab]

When someone tells me "you Mormons aren't real Christians" I tend to respond with something like "who cares, why would I want to be?" ...

...I believe in Jesus, and His religion, I just don't like what has been done/ is being done with the popular name of that religion, particularly by certain large and loud segments of American Christianity...

...many of my correligionists (Mormons) seemingly want nothing quite so much as to be accepted as a part of the evangelical Christian community. This seems to go deeper than just wanting to be friends with neighbors. It's like we have this need for validation, that only evangelicals can give.

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So if I made any sense, what do y'all think of this?

Basically I think it's that we want others to accept and think of our religion as we do...hook, line and sinker. We don't just want lip service, we want them to join us. To be members of our religion just as we are.

Evangelicals more so than others? Nah, I don't think so, unless maybe we came from an evangelical background ourselves before we became members of the true church of Jesus Christ. Being outspoken does have some advantages though when trying to share the gospel with others so it would be good to have at least some evangelical types among us.

But as to your question in the thread title. No we are not too Christian, culturally. We just want the rest of the world to be more Christian, like us.

[Senator]

 

To be a good true Christian or a good Mormon is a very different endeavor ...

 

I disagree

[JLHPROF]

I disagree

 

You have that right.  But if Mormonism is true Christianity (as Mormons believe) then there is a lot more needed to be Christian than being a "good person".

[Senator]

You have that right.  But if Mormonism is true Christianity (as Mormons believe) then there is a lot more needed to be Christian than being a "good person".

 

Not necessarily more, just different.

[Ham Clam]

I think what your really asking is "do we have too much of the negative aspects of fundamentalist Christian thinking/culture in our own culture."