Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uvacs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!rwl From: rwl@uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame,net.misc,net.religion,net.philosophy Subject: Re: Re: MHCS results Message-ID: <1805@uvacs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 17:29:31 EST Article-I.D.: uvacs.1805 Posted: Thu Jan 17 17:29:31 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 00:42:21 EST References: <367@hercules.UUCP> <1784@uvacs.UUCP> <4881@fortune.UUCP> Organization: U.Va. CS in Charlottesville, VA Lines: 29 Xref: watmath net.politics:6986 net.flame:7880 net.misc:7315 net.religion:5323 net.philosophy:1369 > > Um, I beg to differ, but neither the Moonies and Mormons are "Christians". > > Now, I'm not saying that the others are particularly _good_ examples of > > Christians, but the others just down fit it that category. > > Ray Lubinsky > > Since both the Moonies and the Mormons claim to be Christian, how is one > to know that they are not (without spending a long time in the study of > two (or is it three) regressive religions, which study would not interest me). > > Richard Brower Okay, maybe I have jumped the gun here, but on the other hand, is there any any Christian sect that would open their arms to members of either of these groups as fellow Christians? I'd say a Catholic and a Baptist will agree on many more doctrinal points than either one would with a Mormon or (certainly!) a Unification Church member. Granted, I don't have any statistics. But then I felt like this was a question of terminology, not a value judgment. I have no intention of getting into any arguments over dogma; my persuasion is more agnostic than anything else. Hopefully, if anyone _still_ wants to discuss this, it will be moved solely to net.religion. Please remove it from all other groups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ray Lubinsky University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science uucp: decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!rwl