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[J P @JPijc3]

@EricLDaugh Newsflash there were probably republicans and conservatives booing him along with the liberals

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@NBA_NewYork What a terrible statement

[J P @JPijc3]

@SaveUSAKitty @dbongino @TuckerCarlson That sux

[Joel Webbon @JoelWebbon]

Mike Lee's complaint only works if everyone agrees to ignore what Mormonism actually teaches.

He wants the public to focus on the label while averting its eyes from the contents.

But theology is not judged by branding.

If it were, every cult in America could become orthodox by hiring a better marketing department.

Mike Lee belongs to a religion that teaches God the Father was once a man who progressed to godhood, that human beings may follow the same path, that Jesus and Lucifer share the same heavenly parentage, and that the highest aspiration of the faithful is not merely to worship God forever but to become gods themselves.

These are not minor disagreements within Christianity. These are different answers to the most basic questions Christianity asks.

Mike Lee knows this.

He was raised in Mormon royalty, educated in Mormon institutions, and formed by Mormon theology. His objection is not that the Pentagon misunderstood Mormonism. His objection is that the Pentagon accidentally described it accurately.

What makes the spectacle particularly amusing is that Mormon leaders spent generations insisting they were not what Mike Lee now demands to be called.

-Joseph Smith launched his movement by declaring every existing church on earth an abomination.

-Brigham Young mocked the God of Christianity as a being who "never did exist."

-John Taylor described Christianity as "a perfect pack of nonsense."

-Bruce McConkie warned that the doctrines of Christendom would damn men's souls.

-Gordon Hinckley openly admitted that the Christ worshiped by Mormons was not the Christ worshiped by traditional Christians.

For nearly two centuries Mormon leaders built a theological wall between themselves and Christianity brick by brick, sermon by sermon, book by book. Now Mike Lee appears before that same wall demanding to know who built it. The answer is simple: his own prophets did.

The deeper problem for Senator Lee is that Mormonism's truth claims are so spectacularly strange that they force a choice. Either they are true, in which case historic Christianity has been wrong for nearly two thousand years and Joseph Smith really did restore the gospel through golden plates, angelic visitations, sacred underwear, proxy baptisms for the dead, and a seer stone in a hat. Or they are false, in which case Mormonism is one of the most successful religious inventions in American history.

What it cannot be is ordinary Christianity.

The faith that emerged from Nicaea and Chalcedon has many internal disputes, but none of them involve exalted men becoming gods, planets populated by spirit children, or a deity residing near a star called Kolob.

Mike Lee is free to believe every one of those things.

What he is not free to do is pretend they are the same religion that produced the Apostles' Creed.

[David @residentreformr]

Mormons and Muslims are “same same,” no?

[J P @JPijc3]

“But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.”
Galatians 1:8 ESV https://t.co/4BlgSB97V9

[J P @JPijc3]

@alma36saint @LDS_Dems Maybe your church will save you

[J P @JPijc3]

@RubenGallego Are you blind it’s on the list…

[Jon Elder @BlackLabelAdvsr]

@BasedMikeLee Because it’s not even remotely Christian lol

[J P @JPijc3]

@TulsiGabbardRVQ Open mouth breathing

[GundryMD @gundrymd_]

The Worst Snacks For Your Waistline

[J P @JPijc3]

@GuntherEagleman Shouldn’t the statement read “I fully support the next era of HARDSHIP!” ???

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Theo Von wasn’t buying Sam Altman’s wordplay for a second.

Theo asked if he had a bunker.

Sam replied: “I have underground concrete heavy reinforced basements… but I don’t have what I would call a bunker.”

Theo immediately called him out:
“That’s a dang bunker, dude.”

Sam then admitted it’s been on his mind, not because of AI, but “because people are dropping bombs in the world again.”

Theo has a gift for cutting through the verbal gymnastics.

When the people building our future are quietly preparing reinforced underground shelters, it’s worth paying attention.

Do you think tech leaders building bunkers is smart planning or a worrying sign?

[J P @JPijc3]

@EricLDaugh Then where are the checks and balances that support our democracy?

[J P @JPijc3]

@catsareblessing And they are rare because they get ran over by cars often?

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@SenSanders It was rife with fraud

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@JustinUSA Not true

[J P @JPijc3]

@TinashePeter_ You people are idiots

[J P @JPijc3]

@JackPosobiec You believe what he says?

[J P @JPijc3]

@GavinNewsom You need to be replaced