{"id":33014,"date":"2012-06-12T16:20:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_the_unexpected_evangelical_silence_on_mitt_romneys_mormonism\/"},"modified":"2012-06-12T16:20:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T16:20:29","slug":"rns_the_unexpected_evangelical_silence_on_mitt_romneys_mormonism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33014","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) The unexpected evangelical silence on Mitt Romney\u2019s Mormonism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Baptist researcher Ed Stetzer defines Mormonism as a \u201ctheological cult,\u201d\u009d not the classic \u201csociological cult.\u201d\u009d His research shows that a full 75 percent of Protestant pastors believe that Mormonism is either a cult or simply a different religion.<\/p>\n<p>Stetzer says he\u2019d be concerned if the significant theological distinctions between Mormons and mainstream Christianity are blurred or overlooked in the name of political expediency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is more helpful to call Mormons another religion, distinct from biblical or historic Christianity, as just about everyone from Catholics to Methodists to Baptists have clearly stated,\u201d\u009d Stetzer notes. \u201cIt\u2019s a different religion that uses the same words to describe very different things.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/analysis-the-unexpected-evangelical-silence-on-mitt-romneys-mormonism\/2012\/06\/11\/gJQA5HcQVV_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Baptist researcher Ed Stetzer defines Mormonism as a \u201ctheological cult,\u201d\u009d not the classic \u201csociological cult.\u201d\u009d His research shows that a full 75 percent of Protestant pastors believe that Mormonism is either a cult or simply a different religion. Stetzer<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33014\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,209,419,428,616,154,155,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-evangelicals","category-mormons","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}