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I was referring for terms to use by trinitarian Christians such as yourself who deny their identity as Christians. I personally don't care what Mormons call themselves. Many non-Christians aren't anti-Christian. (I have no problem with Christians generally, for example.) In your view they are false Christians, or in the fancy tongue -- pseudo-Christians.They can call themselves whatever they want.
I don't accept the condemnation as meaningful.The standard of belief remains as it is, and they very purposely reject it in favor of something else, so they are (as all heretics are) self-condemned.
It didn't mean that much to me as a Christian either. Even after I knew a bit of Mormon theology, I was still fine with putting them in the "Christian" box. Their Sunday services didn't sound all that different from Baptists and I was willing to accept them as Christians despite the obvious (and even Calvinists).I realize that means nothing to you as an atheist, but when talking about the basics of Christian belief, it's really easy to tell what they are and to measure whatever else is out there claiming to be Christian against them.
The funny thing about that creed is that I said it every week and thought I believed it, but on the trinity thing I couldn't quite hold it together. Everything else kept telling me that Jesus was the Son of God and not the same as God. Trinitarianism was something I told myself I believed even though I didn't really. (I don't think I was alone in that.)We wrote a whole creed about it and everything, and it has stood for 1,600+ years and counting.
I have seen the animated documentary...(And the likes of Joseph 'Magic Rock in a Hat' Smith is certainly not a serious threat to that.)
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