Are Mormons Christians?

[ag]

Christians yes but also heretics.

Ok, now that's one of the better descriptions I've read.  Nice.

From a certain standpoint, that describes pretty much everyone, calling himself Christian ))

[Lincoln Republican]

Christians yes but also heretics.

Hmmm, I seem to recall that heretics was the term used at the time of the Protestant Reformation by the Roman Catholic church in referring to anyone who took issue on anything to do with the Catholic church.

Well, we all know how that turned out, don't we, with about 650,000,000 Protestants in the world today.

Now, nobody get on their high horse of indignation, I am taking no stand on Catholicism in any way, shape or form, simply stating historical facts.

[ag]

Christians yes but also heretics.

Well, we all know how that turned out, don't we, with about 650,000,000 Protestants in the world today.

And they are not even the largest group of heretics around today: Catholics, with their "filioque", are, unquestionably, heretics from the Eastern Orthodox standpoint.

Hereticism is not a slur - it is a designation. From a certain standpoint, nearly everyone is a heretic.

Still, Mormons are further away then the rest. Catholics would recognize nearly every baptism as Christian. As you aren't supposed to be rebaptized if you were baptized once already, this means that pretty much any protestant would be, from the Catholic standpoint, considered Christian (albeit, indeed, probably a heretic) from the moment of his baptism. However, a Mormon baptism is simply not viewed as a Christian sacrament, heretical or not, by the Catholic church. There is quite a bit of a difference there.