To: angelo, BibChr, the_doc
If Unitarian is included as "Mainline Protestant", I vote
NO. Unitarianism is about as "protestant christian" as Orthodox Judaism, and for much the same reason!!
Unitarian should be placed in "Other Christian" at best, and that is a MAJOR stretch (but, you put LDS there, so maybe it's a big enough tent). They really should be placed in "other Non-Christian" or... perhaps most accurately... "Judaism"!!
For are they not, essentially, Moral-Law-Noachides who deny the divinity of Christ?
To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
OP, I put the Unitarians in the mainline Protestant Topic because that is where they derived from. The "Description" is intended to provide some general idea of what should go into that Topic, not to be a complete definition of that topic. There are Unitarians who are indistinguishable from other mainline Protestants, and there are some, as you note, that could more properly be classified into some of the other categories. With a group like "Unitarians", there is no perfect fit because the group itself is so diverse.
18 posted on
03/27/2002 10:53:20 AM PST by
malakhi
To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
I should point out that in any of the Denominational Topics, the groups who fall in that category are going to be divided into Liberal/Modernist and Conservative/Traditional camps. There are secular Jews and observant Jews. There are liberal Episcopalians and Continuing Anglicans. There are liberal Lutherans (ELCA) and conservative Lutherans (LCMS). These are broad categories, not complete lists.
20 posted on
03/27/2002 10:55:41 AM PST by
malakhi
To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
I have no idea what this is about. Unitarian and LDS are equally Christian which is to say they are not. Christians affirm the Biblical teaching of one God eternally existing in three Persons. LDS denies the first part of that statement, Unitarianism the second.
"Sociologically Christian" would be as close as it gets.
Dan
42 posted on
03/27/2002 11:18:47 AM PST by
BibChr
To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
If Unitarian is included as "Mainline Protestant", I vote NO. Unitarianism is about as "protestant christian" as Orthodox Judaism, and for much the same reason!!Unitarian should be placed in "Other Christian" at best, and that is a MAJOR stretch (but, you put LDS there, so maybe it's a big enough tent). They really should be placed in "other Non-Christian" or... perhaps most accurately... "Judaism"!!
Definitely agree, it is not accurate by any definition to call these groups Christian.
490 posted on
04/02/2002 7:03:24 AM PST by
Mahone
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