On the Square Today

Howard P. Kainz on Mormons, Christianity, and asking the right questions :

Evidently, the more we know about Mormonism, the more we can see that we have been  asking the wrong question . From the  Mormon  point of view, the question to be asked is not, “Are Mormons Christian?” but, in view of the alleged apostasy in early Christianity after the death of the Apostles, a more appropriate question would be: “Are any non-Mormons Christian?”

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