Mormons believe in a false gospel and are not Christians, concluded one of the nation\u2019s preeminent evangelicals in what appeared to be the close of an online debate over Mormonism.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere is the bottom line. As an Evangelical Christian \u2013 a Christian who holds to the \u2018traditional Christian orthodoxy\u2019 of the Church \u2013 I do not believe that Mormonism leads to salvation,\u201d wrote Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo the contrary, I believe that it is a false gospel that, however sincere and kind its adherents may be, leads to eternal death rather than to eternal life,\u201d he stated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In the 19th century, Mormons fled to Utah after being persecuted in the East and Midwest, including violent pogroms.<\/p>\n
But in our modern secular democracy, Beck’s faith is protected.\u00a0 His freedom to worship is protected.<\/p>\n
So when Glenn Beck’s supporters attack the lower-Manhattan mosque and when he attacks Barack Obama’s Christianity, saying “it’s not Muslim, it’s not Christian” and describing it as “a perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ as most Christians know it,” Beck has no excuses.<\/p>\n
He understands what religious intolerance means.<\/p>\n
The members of his church teach the history of ugly and violent divisiveness that intolerance brought to their doorsteps.<\/p>\n
And yet he still wields that sword for political gain.<\/p>\n
By any measure, Mr. Beck is an ugly sort of leader for any movement to take up.\u00a0 His history is checkered, his rhetoric is muddled, and his motives are questionable.<\/p>\n
But at least this weekend’s event in Washington clarified one thing.\u00a0 He went to the nation’s capital to claim a part of Martin Luther King’s mantle.<\/p>\n
Instead, he came away wrapped in the spirit of Bull Connor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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