Posted by:
Makurosu
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Date: November 15, 2010 09:48PM
Someone on Facebook posted a link to a Causes.com page called "Mormons are Christians" today, and I was sitting here just now laughing at it.
http://www.causes.com/causes/36767The idea is to raise awareness among the rest of mainstream Christendom (whom the Mormon church has a history of disdainfully attacking) that Mormons are Christian too! I suppose this is an important misconception to clarify, as I remember being taught as a Deacon in the 1970s to say "We're not Christian. We're Mormon!" I'm glad the Mormon church has finally found a home.
The first thing you see on the page after the bearded guy in the bathrobe is a "Cause Bulletin" with the words to the hymn "I Believe In Christ." Now, I realize that Mormons might not need to sing "Rugged Old Cross" to prove that they are Christians, but I wish they could find something better than Bruce R. McConkie's terrible hymn. I remember having to sing that as a closing hymn in Sacrament meeting. It's an obtuse funeral dirge of a hymn that would make Jesus long for the cross. I used to have one eye on the hymn book and the other eye on the door.
Clicking on the About tab, I find... quotes from the Articles of Faith written by Joseph Smith! Fail. They currently have 77,629 members and need 22,371 to reach their next milestone, whatever that gets them.
It's good to have a cause.