Posts tagged “Terry Mattingly”

“Trinitarian Christians”?

Posted on October 22nd, 2011

As in the 2008 presidential campaign, Mormonism is going to be in the news as long as Mitt Romney remains a candidate in the 2012 race for President. At GetReligion, Terry Mattingly addresses coverage by the Associated Press comparing Mormon teachings to “conservative Protestant” doctrine. Interesting is the repeated phrase “Trinitarian Christians” in Mattingly’s post. Such a phrase implies that there are other kinds of Christians who don’t believe in the Trinity. By any conventional definition, however, there are no non-Trinitarian Christians. Besides their aberrant views on Jesus Christ, Baptism, and the authority of Scripture (to name a few), one of the reasons Mormons are not Christians is because they reject the catholic, orthodox teaching that there is one God in three Persons, the…

Categories: Politics, Theology

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Tis what season?

Posted on December 11th, 2010

There’s a good interview over at Issues, Etc. with Terry Mattingly of GetReligion on media coverage of “The Holidays.” He made some great points about how the American church ethos, dominantly protestant, has entirely given away the church’s calendar. In protesting Christ being taken out of Christmas throughout December, they have already ceded the timing of Christmas to the soulless engine of industry. I listened and said “Yes, yes, yes!” to the program … while on the way home from a Christmas party tonight. (It was a fun time, although certain concerns weighing on my mind doubtless made me a poor conversationalist.) I don’t fault anyone in particular, nor would I want anyone to feel bad or guilty. There’s really nothing that can be…

Categories: Theology

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Post-election depression diversions

Posted on November 10th, 2008

President-elect B.H. Obama has announced he plans to give terrorists and enemy combatants rights as American citizens in granting them civilian trials. Now that’s change the terrorists can believe in! Adrian Peterson is awesome awesome awesome. The Museum of Idolatry has additional exhibits on Barack “The Messiah” Obama. Michelle Malkin on how “Peggy the Moocher” beat “Joe the Plumber”. Voter fraud in Ohio. Milwaukee vote-fraud special investigative unit ordered not to work on election day. Military voters disenfranchised in Virginia. LCMS church in Wisconsin ordered to remove pro-life church sign on election day. Concordia–Chicago (formerly River Forest) professors supporting terrorist William Ayers. Rev. Benjamin Harju on the Church Year as presented in LSB. GetReligion’s Terry Mattingly on “Christian” churches offering communion to the unbaptized.…

Categories: Liturgy

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