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"Christian" claims unfounded

To the editor,

I would like to comment on Katy Ewig's letter regarding her Mormon faith.

I found it most interesting that Ms. Ewig claims to be a "Christian" and not 2 sentences later refutes that claim by undermining everything a true Christian believes. Including : The Trinity, the divinity of Jesus, his death for the salvation of mankind, his resurrection and return to heaven and his eminent return on the Day of Judgment. Today, it seems that everyone wants to claim an affiliation with Christ despite the name's ill-intentioned origin. I find it preposterous that a group like the Mormon Church can even suggest they are "Christians" when they don't even believe that Jesus is God himself. Perhaps we should look at the Bible, which Mormons claim to believe in? John 14:8-9 says, "Philip (a disciple of Jesus) said unto him, show us the Father and it sufficient us. Jesus said unto him, Have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?" Instead they believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers, and the sons of a chief god somehow connected with the salvation of Spirits born in human form. By nature Mormons are nothing more than glorified polytheists, considering that they believe they too can become gods someday if they follow the laws of Joseph Smith, or Brigham Young, depending on the sect. Their idea of heaven is being gods over their own planet, ruling with their husband/wife and having sex for all eternity to populate it. That's more science fiction than Star Trek!

As a rule of thumb I also tend to avoid anyone who used to claim that neutral spirits between 'the war of good and evil' are born on earth as blacks! If that wasn't racist, what is? A Mormon is no more a Christian than a member of Wicca is. There is nothing wrong with believing what you will, but, as I have stated before in comments to this paper, don't sully the name "Christian" by claiming an affiliation when you don't even follow Jesus, his teachings, and the Bible, and those things alone.

The Bible isn't a 'companion book' and Jesus wasn't just a good prophet. If you believe otherwise, then you have no claim of being a Christian.

Jacob Lauser

Electrical engineering sophomore