The Debate on Whether Mormons are Christians is Settled Because Donald Trump Says So
On Sunday, September 28, 2025, a mass shooting and arson attack occurred at a congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‑day Saints (LDS) in Grand Blanc, Michigan.
Noted religious scholar Donald J. Trump immediately posted on Truth Social, framing the incident as an attack on Christians.
In 2014, Trump suggested that Mitt Romney, a Mormon, lost the 2012 election due to his “alien faith.” McKay Coppins reported that Trump argued vigorously — despite evidence to the contrary — that many Christian voters were put off by Romney’s religion. Privately, Trump reportedly joked about sacred undergarments worn by devout members. Michael Cohen recalled, “Oh my God. How many times did he bring up Mitt Romney and the undergarments…”
Now you have it, Mormons are definitely Christians because it feeds the narrative that Christians are under attack in America. Fox News will run this angle throughout the news cycle, even though many of its commentators would have been among those denying that Mormons were Christians the day before this horrible attack.
At the time of this writing, the shooter has been identified as Thomas Jacob Sanford, a 40-year-old Marine Corps veteran from Burton, Michigan. Nothing is known about his motives, yet Donald Trump sees it as an attack on Christianity. That settles that.
What makes Trump’s intervention so hollow is the hypocrisy at its core. For years, he has courted evangelical leaders who openly dismissed Mormons as outside the Christian fold, yet in the wake of tragedy, he suddenly anoints them as Christians because it serves his narrative of persecution. He rails against violence while stoking division, condemns hatred while trafficking in it, and claims to defend faith while weaponizing it for political gain.
https://www.levelman.com/lds-church-atta...hristians/
Indeed, just a few days ago MAGA was claiming that Charlie Kirk's assassin isn't right wing even though he's a Christian because "Mormons are not Christians"
On Sunday, September 28, 2025, a mass shooting and arson attack occurred at a congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‑day Saints (LDS) in Grand Blanc, Michigan.
Noted religious scholar Donald J. Trump immediately posted on Truth Social, framing the incident as an attack on Christians.
In 2014, Trump suggested that Mitt Romney, a Mormon, lost the 2012 election due to his “alien faith.” McKay Coppins reported that Trump argued vigorously — despite evidence to the contrary — that many Christian voters were put off by Romney’s religion. Privately, Trump reportedly joked about sacred undergarments worn by devout members. Michael Cohen recalled, “Oh my God. How many times did he bring up Mitt Romney and the undergarments…”
Now you have it, Mormons are definitely Christians because it feeds the narrative that Christians are under attack in America. Fox News will run this angle throughout the news cycle, even though many of its commentators would have been among those denying that Mormons were Christians the day before this horrible attack.
At the time of this writing, the shooter has been identified as Thomas Jacob Sanford, a 40-year-old Marine Corps veteran from Burton, Michigan. Nothing is known about his motives, yet Donald Trump sees it as an attack on Christianity. That settles that.
What makes Trump’s intervention so hollow is the hypocrisy at its core. For years, he has courted evangelical leaders who openly dismissed Mormons as outside the Christian fold, yet in the wake of tragedy, he suddenly anoints them as Christians because it serves his narrative of persecution. He rails against violence while stoking division, condemns hatred while trafficking in it, and claims to defend faith while weaponizing it for political gain.
https://www.levelman.com/lds-church-atta...hristians/
Indeed, just a few days ago MAGA was claiming that Charlie Kirk's assassin isn't right wing even though he's a Christian because "Mormons are not Christians"
Quote:"Tyler Robinson Is Not A Christian Because Mormons Are Not Christians"
Today I’m watching the right wing flood the zone with shit in their desperation to prove that Tyler Robinson is not one of them despite his upbringing and environment — he’s an radical left wing antifa Democrat they say. Their latest evidence is a photo of a member of Utah’s Democratic Socialists of America wearing said shirt, that obviously isnt Tyler Robinson but has a vague resemblance to him.
However what caught my eye is the uptick of MAGA arguing that Tyler Robinson is not a Christian because Mormons are not Christians. So, say you're Mormon and you support Charlie Kirk because you are Christian and so is Charlie Kirk. Problem is, MAGA is now saying that the shooter is not Christian because he is a Mormon, and Mormons are not Christian.
Think long and hard about what this means, because this is exactly how America shatters into a million divided pieces where everyone starts kicking each other out of their group.
MAGA just declared that you’re politically expendable — you were one of them until they decide that you’re not.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/...Christians
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
