NY Times: I'm a Mormon, Not a Christian

MR says: A Mormon columnist who has had enough of the "Christian" debate explains why he doesn't consider himself Christian (although he certainly believes in the divinity of Jesus Christ). Don't know how I feel about the argument, but it's an interesting read, all the same.

This is the so-called Mormon Moment: a strange convergence of developments offering Mormons hope that the Christian nation that persecuted, banished or killed them in the 19th century will finally love them as fellow Christians.

I want to be on record about this. I’m about as genuine a Mormon as you’ll find — a templegoer with a Utah pedigree and an administrative position in a congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I am also emphatically not a Christian.

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