Eric Johnson, a longstanding anti-Mormon activist (he
is the lapdog of Bill McKeever at “Mormonism Research Ministry”). In a review
of Stephen Webb’s book, Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn
from the Latter-day Saints (Oxford, 2013), a work of scholarship that
Johnson et al. could never emulate, he makes this rather silly statement (this is just one of many):
== In fact, if Mormons are Christians (synonymous), then I wonder if
Christians (like Webb considers himself and I think I am too) are Mormon? ==
While Eric Johnson (and the rest of the team at MRM)
are not exactly well known for having a good grasp of logic (and biblical
exegesis, among many other things), this is just stupid to the nth degree. “Mormonism”
would be considered a subset to the broader category of Christianity, which
is the perspective of Webb and others, not that they are one to one equivalent
(Webb is a Roman Catholic and would consider himself to be a “Christian”; that
defeats the nonsense Johnson is imputing to him). Such a comment by Johnson
would result in “theist” and “Muslim” being one to one equivalent (of course,
this is a straw-man he deceptively foists upon Webb).
