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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
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To: BibChr, angelo, RnMomof7
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

Exactly right. In actuality, the so-called "other Christian" category is just that -- "sociologically Christian" (with the exception of Messianics, who probably should be listed as "Evangelicals, Kosher").

If Unitarians belong anywhere, it is in the hodgepodge "other Christian" topic, with the LDS and the JW's, etc. (as several posters have already noted, including some "yes" voters).

Personally, I continue to maintain that the most accurate category for unitarianism is either "other Non-Christian" or... "Judaism"!! Unitarians run the gamut from New Unitarian Leftists to Old Unitarian Moralists, just as do Judaists; the primary difference between a Modern Unitarian and a Reconstructionist Jew, or an Old Unitarian and a Conservative Jew.... is one is Hebrew and the other is Noachide.

44 posted on 03/27/2002 11:26:41 AM PST by OrthodoxPresbyterian
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To: BibChr
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.

There is no perfect way to do this, short of setting up one or two hundred separate denominational topics. The descriptions are not meant to be definitive, but to provide some guideline as to what would fit in that topic. Unfortunately, no one raised the Unitarian issue on the previous thread. As far as the Mormons go, they self-identify as Christian, so they do, IMO, fit more appropriately in "Other Christian" than in "Other non-Christian". I couldn't really justify setting up a separate topic for LDS, when I didn't do it for Lutherans, for example.

48 posted on 03/27/2002 11:33:12 AM PST by malakhi
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