Interesting. I run into both names frequently, but I had no idea there was any preference between them besides the formality of the context you're referring to the church in. The article touches...
Interesting. I run into both names frequently, but I had no idea there was any preference between them besides the formality of the context you're referring to the church in.
The article touches on it a bit in reference to journalists, but does / will anyone here let this change how they refer to the church? I'm unsure where to fall on this for my own usage. I certainly don't have the greatest amount of respect for them, but does that mean I shouldn't let them be referred to as they want to be? It doesn't stop me from being critical, so it feels a little petty...but also right, maybe?
I did some quick research before posting this article, and it seems there is a schism between the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints and some other followers of the Book of Mormon. I...
I did some quick research before posting this article, and it seems there is a schism between the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints and some other followers of the Book of Mormon. I learned that there are such things as Mormon fundamentalists, who hold themselves apart from the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints - particularly in their support for plural marriage and something called the "United Order", which seems to be a form of religious communism.
The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints actually excommunicates people who practise plural marriage, and these polygamists call themselves Mormons, so this insistence on not calling the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints "Mormon" might be just a way for the mainstream church to dissociate itself from polygamists (since the Church has disallowed plural marriage for more than a century).
Interesting. I run into both names frequently, but I had no idea there was any preference between them besides the formality of the context you're referring to the church in.
The article touches on it a bit in reference to journalists, but does / will anyone here let this change how they refer to the church? I'm unsure where to fall on this for my own usage. I certainly don't have the greatest amount of respect for them, but does that mean I shouldn't let them be referred to as they want to be? It doesn't stop me from being critical, so it feels a little petty...but also right, maybe?
I did some quick research before posting this article, and it seems there is a schism between the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints and some other followers of the Book of Mormon. I learned that there are such things as Mormon fundamentalists, who hold themselves apart from the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints - particularly in their support for plural marriage and something called the "United Order", which seems to be a form of religious communism.
The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints actually excommunicates people who practise plural marriage, and these polygamists call themselves Mormons, so this insistence on not calling the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints "Mormon" might be just a way for the mainstream church to dissociate itself from polygamists (since the Church has disallowed plural marriage for more than a century).