You are quite right, I had misread John's final sentence. I suppose because, in my mind and however inaccurately, I would not have included Mormons or Christian Scientists in the set of protestant denominations. I don't know enough about the Christian Scientists to comment but I had always considered that the addition of a new Holy Text took the Mormons into another classification.
This is probably due to my Presbyterian upbringing, where the addition, subtraction or amending of the words of the King James Bible were among the greatest sins of all. The book of Mormon would have been totally beyond the pale.
Indeed,considering your essay in FA, I wonder do you consider Mormons to be Christians at all? (And i'm not trying to get you 'poke a wasps nest' I'd be interested in your views)
As to the irony of John's post. I'm not sure where we are actually in disagreement. Your reply seemed to be saying that John's comments on the Lutherans was, if not inaccurate, then an over-simplification or over statement of the activities of the Lutherans. I thought the irony lay in the opening sentence which denounced one particular charge and the second which, seemed to me, to amount to 'and these guys were worse, anyway'....
I can also assure you that I have no particular axe to grind in this discussion. Any overtly sectarian prejudices I have (and I'd be a fool to deny that they exist at some level) tend to stop at the shores of the irish sea.
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This is probably due to my Presbyterian upbringing, where the addition, subtraction or amending of the words of the King James Bible were among the greatest sins of all. The book of Mormon would have been totally beyond the pale.
Indeed,considering your essay in FA, I wonder do you consider Mormons to be Christians at all? (And i'm not trying to get you 'poke a wasps nest' I'd be interested in your views)
As to the irony of John's post. I'm not sure where we are actually in disagreement. Your reply seemed to be saying that John's comments on the Lutherans was, if not inaccurate, then an over-simplification or over statement of the activities of the Lutherans. I thought the irony lay in the opening sentence which denounced one particular charge and the second which, seemed to me, to amount to 'and these guys were worse, anyway'....
I can also assure you that I have no particular axe to grind in this discussion. Any overtly sectarian prejudices I have (and I'd be a fool to deny that they exist at some level) tend to stop at the shores of the irish sea.