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Not being considered a Christian

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posted by willf 601 days ago | status: published

Focus on the Family's spokesman states that they only consider Evangelical Christians to be Christians. I don't know why, but it feels kind of nice not being the only Christian who is labeled non-Christian.
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Get to page 2 to see what Dobson says about Mormons...He kind of dances around it, and then even implies that it is his feeling that we *are*--all while saying that many evangelical Christians would have a problem with Romney being LDS. Fascinating.
written by naiah 601 days ago
    I was vague in that last comment--I find it fascinating that the spokesperson said it's just evangelicals for whom they will use the word Christian, but later on (end of page one/beginning of page two) Dobson himself draws a distinction when speaking about Romney's presidential campaign that leaves room for implication that he does accept us as Christian.

    Aside: the whole "Are Mormons Christian" phenomenon just cracks me up. It's like a "is the sky blue" debate...
    written by naiah 601 days ago
Absolutely fascinating. Their becoming more exclusionary. I love to see it when a protestant group, without claiming any kind of new authority, 'de-christianizes' Catholic and Orthodox christians. This is especially interesting when one of the large 'para-church' movements like FoF is involved. They have a surprising amount of influence.

It's more understandable, but still amusing when they try to redefine christianity to exclude more recent developments, like Restorationists (JW, Mormon, Seventh Day Adventists) and newer movements like the remainder of the Armstrongites.

When they say 'America is a Christian Nation' their really saying "America is Ours...and you'd better do what we say or get out..."
written by canadiancynic 601 days ago
I've seen books from Dobson and FoF in chuch-owned bookstores (BYU bookstore, Deseret Book, Ricks College bookstore). I don't know if the church still sells his stuff, not having been in those stores for years, but I find it ironic that apparently FoF doesn't or didn't mind selling their wares in LDS stores but can't admit LDS are actually--gasp--Christian!
written by frozenchosenAK 601 days ago
That's not the way I read Dr. Dobson's comment. In context, it seemed that the most important thing to him was that Mr. Thompson did not appear to really express his faith in a very public way; he was baptized in a Christian Church, but he was not an evangelical Christian -- which might very well mean in his parlance a Christian who witnesses, who stands up, declares the gospel.

I also find it interesting that the summary above and the comments ignore Dobson's interview with Mitt Romney, which is pretty interesting.
written by TedB 600 days ago

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