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[Mike @grorc]

@Latterdaytruth @Sislatterdaytru Im curious what you got her...

[The Primary Pianist @Primary_Pianist]

Evangelical: Mormonism is basically Islam.

Latter-day Saint: In what way?

Evangelical: Joseph Smith was like Muhammad. They both claimed to be prophets and produced new scripture.

Latter-day Saint: That is not an argument. That is two vague similarities stripped of every meaningful detail.

Evangelical: They both rejected Christianity.

Latter-day Saint: Joseph Smith did not reject Jesus Christ. He testified that Jesus is the divine Son of God, the Creator, the Messiah, the Savior of mankind, and the only source of redemption.

Evangelical: But he rejected the Trinity.

Latter-day Saint: Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God, denies His divine atoning death, and denies His resurrection as Christians understand it.

Latter-day Saints worship Jesus Christ, are baptized in His name, partake of the sacrament in remembrance of His body and blood, pray to the Father through Him, and believe salvation comes only through His grace and Atonement.

Those are not minor distinctions.

Evangelical: But Muhammad claimed revelation after the Bible, and so did Joseph Smith.

Latter-day Saint: So did nearly every biblical prophet after an earlier prophet had already spoken.

“Someone claimed revelation” does not establish that two religions are the same.

By that logic, Moses, Isaiah, Peter, Paul, Muhammad, Joseph Smith, and every false prophet in history are all interchangeable.

Evangelical: They both had followers who believed they restored the true religion.

Latter-day Saint: Protestants also claim Christianity became corrupted and needed to be reformed.

Catholics claim authority was preserved through apostolic succession.

Eastern Orthodox Christians claim Rome departed from the ancient faith.

Religious groups disagree about authority and restoration. That does not make them Islam.

Evangelical: But Mormonism is not historic Christianity.

Latter-day Saint: That is a different argument.

You began by saying Latter-day Saints are “basically Muslims.”

Now you are retreating to the claim that our theology differs from post-biblical creeds.

Those are not the same assertion.

Evangelical: Joseph Smith and Muhammad were both charismatic religious leaders.

Latter-day Saint: So were Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, George Whitefield, and countless revivalist preachers.

Is every influential religious leader now “basically Muhammad”?

Evangelical: You know what I mean.

Latter-day Saint: Yes. You want the emotional association without doing the theological work.

You invoke Islam because many Evangelicals already view Muslims as outsiders. Then you attach Latter-day Saints to that category so you can dismiss us without seriously engaging what we believe about Christ.

It is not analysis.

It is guilt by association.

Evangelical: So you are saying there are no similarities?

Latter-day Saint: Of course there are similarities.

Both religions believe in God, prophets, scripture, prayer, fasting, moral accountability, and divine judgment.

So do Judaism and Christianity.

Religions can share broad features without being “basically the same.”

The question is not whether superficial parallels exist.

The question is whether the comparison accurately explains the religion.

This one does not.

Evangelical: But you still follow Joseph Smith.

Latter-day Saint: We follow Jesus Christ.

We believe Joseph Smith was a prophet because he pointed people to Christ, translated a book that testifies of Christ, organized a church in Christ’s name, taught faith in Christ, repentance through Christ, baptism in Christ’s name, receiving the Holy Ghost, and enduring faithfully to the end.

You may reject his prophetic calling.

But pretending he replaced Jesus in our religion only proves that you do not understand the religion you are criticizing.

Calling Latter-day Saints “basically Muslims” is not a serious theological argument.

It is a rhetorical strategy designed to push fellow believers in Christ outside the Christian conversation without having to confront their actual testimony of Him.

[Mike @grorc]

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[The Calvin Coolidge Project @TheCalvinCooli1]

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[Mike @grorc]

@sola_chad What does it matter? They believe in the Trinity so they’re going to heaven.

[Mike @grorc]

@OrgChaosForever … what, are we back in 2020?
Everyone understands what “woke” is and it has nothing to do with vaginas.

[Mike @grorc]

@GunnelsWarren You people are absolute idiots…
And that’s completely separate from it coming for you eventually.

[Mike @grorc]

I just found out that @AmericanAir has Dr Pepper on its flights! How did I not know this?? I’ll never fly anyone ever again!

[Mike @grorc]

@compliantvc Elon Musk... every day, all day, @elonmusk

[Mike @grorc]

This is the longest video of AOC that I have ever watched...

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Mike @grorc]

@ma1ybe not in the slightest

[Mike @grorc]

@KamilMPoet 2056! lol

[Mike @grorc]

This is a strange comparison.

The Greeks and Romans left evidence because their civilizations continued. Cities were rebuilt, occupied, expanded, and incorporated into later civilizations for thousands of years. Many discoveries are made because modern construction accidentally uncovers something that never stopped being inhabited.

A better comparison would be civilizations that disappeared, were conquered, or were absorbed into other populations.

Even in the Bible, archaeology is incomplete. We still debate the locations of numerous biblical cities. The Exodus remains archaeologically controversial. The Amalekites, Midianites, Horites, Rephaim, Zamzummim, and many other peoples mentioned in scripture have left far less evidence than Rome or Greece.

Archaeology rarely proves a civilization didn't exist. It simply tells us what has and has not been discovered so far.

[Mike @grorc]

@ronsterd89 Because it was a ridiculously stupid number that the UN gave.

[Mike @grorc]

This was a fun movie.
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[Mike @grorc]

@Manhattva I don't understand...

[Mike @grorc]

@sapphyreblayze ... wouldn't every American that has a better quality of life than the average European think this?

[Mike @grorc]

@mikitaposts Did it say that is why she was fired?

[Mike @grorc]

@AOC Yes

[Mike @grorc]

@asophiething Wait, I’m confused; why would you be “Mormon”?

[Mike @grorc]

@GavinNewsom What’s amazing is law makers using the general ignorance of the populace regarding stocks to create class issues.