"Mormons and Evangelicals are in competition"

[OtherCheek]

http://www.examiner.com/lds-in-houst...as-competition

This is an interesting article, and I think.

"In fact within the LDS Church there are no lessons, courses or seminars that discuss other faiths. No comparative religion classes are taught and other churches are never discussed over the pulpit.

Continue reading on Examiner.com Baptist leader Land views Mormons and LDS Church as competition - Houston LDS | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/lds-in-houston/baptist-leader-land-views-mormons-and-lds-church-as-competition#ixzz1rwDRtm8U"

This is not exactly true. On the university level (BYU), I took a comparative religion class discussing major religions. But no religions were talked down. In fact, I think the instructor I had wasn't even LDS.

[Cow Poke]

Looks like Richard has gained some weight!

[Cow Poke]

This is an interesting article, and I think.

[Xru]

http://www.examiner.com/lds-in-houst...as-competition

This is an interesting article, and I think.

"In fact within the LDS Church there are no lessons, courses or seminars that discuss other faiths. No comparative religion classes are taught and other churches are never discussed over the pulpit.

Continue reading on Examiner.com Baptist leader Land views Mormons and LDS Church as competition - Houston LDS | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/lds-in-houston/baptist-leader-land-views-mormons-and-lds-church-as-competition#ixzz1rwDRtm8U"

This is not exactly true. On the university level (BYU), I took a comparative religion class discussing major religions. But no religions were talked down. In fact, I think the instructor I had wasn't even LDS.

So what you are saying is that everything stated in the article is true except you took comparative religion at BYU?

I don't understand. In what way do you find that interesting?

[OtherCheek]

So what you are saying is that everything stated in the article is true except you took comparative religion at BYU?

I don't understand. In what way do you find that interesting?

I'm just glad to see that many Evangelicals will support a decent man for office, even though he is Mormon. Also the notion that we are in competition for members, and how preachers all over the world introduce the name of Joseph Smith to congregations that have never heard of him, just to warn them to reject the missionaries at the door.

The comparative religion class was just a side note. Not interesting at all. In fact, rather boring.

[Cow Poke]

I'm just glad to see that many Evangelicals will support a decent man for office, even though he is Mormon. Also the notion that we are in competition for members, and how preachers all over the world introduce the name of Joseph Smith to congregations that have never heard of him, just to warn them to reject the missionaries at the door.

You really lost me in this thread, OC --- Not trying to fight you, just not seeing where you're trying to go. I've known an awful lot of preachers in my day, in many different communities, and I've only known ONE preacher who talked about Mormons from the pulpit on any more than just a passing reference. (and, not, it wasn't me )

The comparative religion class was just a side note. Not interesting at all. In fact, rather boring.

Well, that's part of what threw me off -- because the article was about Church, and your class was in college.

[OtherCheek]

You really lost me in this thread, OC --- Not trying to fight you, just not seeing where you're trying to go. I've known an awful lot of preachers in my day, in many different communities, and I've only known ONE preacher who talked about Mormons from the pulpit on any more than just a passing reference. (and, not, it wasn't me )



Well, that's part of what threw me off -- because the article was about Church, and your class was in college.

Never mind

[Cow Poke]

Never mind

I'm not fighting you, OC -- I was just trying to understand ... obviously, you posted this for a reason, and I don't see anything here to "fight" about.... I'm just curious where you were going with this.

[JB]

I've never heard a Christian pastor mention Joseph Smith over the pulpit. (It may very well happen at some few churches, but I've never found myself in one of them.) I've heard Mormons mentioned exactly one time, and not in a derogatory way. I have, however, gone to an LDS stake conference and heard the central creed of my faith loudly denounced out of the blue as "false doctrine", and I have read misstatements about the history and content of my faith in basic teaching manuals of the LDS Church.

[Cow Poke]

I've never heard a Christian pastor mention Joseph Smith over the pulpit. (It may very well happen at some few churches, but I've never found myself in one of them.) I've heard Mormons mentioned exactly one time, and not in a derogatory way. I have, however, gone to an LDS stake conference and heard the central creed of my faith loudly denounced out of the blue as "false doctrine", and I have read misstatements about the history and content of my faith in basic teaching manuals of the LDS Church.

You just jogged my memory! I remember years ago that I actually mentioned the Mormons AND Jehovah Witnesses from my pulpit --- but FAR from derogatory, I was trying to encourage our people, who we believe have the TRUTH, to be as ZEALOUS in sharing the Gospel as those who still go door to door like Evangelicals USED to! And the point was NOT "they have a false prophet and a false book"... the point was that THEY BELIEVE in what they are doing.....

[One Bad Pig]

I think I saw a film about Mormons once, on a Sunday night back when I was a Protestant. It was maybe 25 years ago, so details are a little hazy.