[Phys-L] Re: Another attack on Evolution

[John Clement <clement@HAL-PC.ORG>]

Nonetheless, Mormonism was born in a conservative Protestant community.
However its theology does diverge radically from other churches that claim
Christianity, and they even have the Book of Mormon as a holy book, in
addition to the Christian Bible.  The book of Mormon repeats conventional
Protestant slurs of the time against the Roman church.  The Book of Mormon
also has a history of the lost tribes of Israel who migrated to the Americas
and engaged in a war.  The Mormons still have a strong anti-Roman Catholic
outlook, or at least they did in the 1960s.  The mainline Protestant
churches, Orthodoxy, and the Anglican church have all come made peace with
Rome, or perhaps Rome has made peace with them.  I think many of the
fundamentalists may also consider the mainline Protestant churches to also
no longer be Christian.

The posted article does certainly mention that there is a divergence of
opinion, but the European churches are certainly not anti-evolution, and the
allied American churches would probably fall into the same category such as
the Episcopal church.

A historical note is that Ben Franklin was born Presbyterian, but faithfully
attended the Episcopal church and even had a private family box, according
to an Episcopal friend.  Remember his 300th birthday just passed.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX

> At 2:01 PM -0600 1/19/06, John M Clement wrote:
> > Incidentally Mormonism was born in a Protestant area of the US, and
> > the Book of Mormon reflects the prevailing prejudices at the time it
> > was written.  As a result it is not surprising that they might side
> > with the fundamentalist wing.  There are also some ultra-orthodox Jews
> > that also take the fundamentalist point of view.
>
> Fundamentalist right-wing Christians do not want to claim Mormonism as
> part
> of their own.  Mormons are not Christians according to the
> fundamentalists.
> But, of course, Mormons claim to be Christians.
>
> Utah Sentator Buttars' bill does not represent any kind of official
> statement from the Mormon church and
> http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C635177399%2C00.html
> talks a bit about Mormons' (and other religions in Utah) views of the bill
> and evolution.
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