When it comes to “first timers”, MORmONisms is my next bet. Because when you get to know them personally (lots of them serve in the military, work in the federal government, and are loyal Americans) are quite pleasant and personable. And dare I say….innovative and dynamic (their worship of Lord Xenu, Volcano Jesus notwithstanding).
Also, didn’t the Romneytard come remarkably close?
I was not interested in gatekeeping Christianity in this post. Mormons self-identity as Christians, and all academic classifications count them as such.
Mormonism was founded by a literal conman who said that no existing religious texts fully cover Christianity and that even the Book of Mormon may not be the final word (i.e. in case Joseph Smith needed to sell more books, which he in fact did).
Mormons are openly non-Trinitarian and teach that God was once a man on another planet who was promoted to Godhood by an even higher god, and is
married to the Heavenly Mother. Those are just two basic examples of how Mormonism is apostatic and not Christian at all.
