Didn't read all of that. Your opinion is not objective truth or reality. It's absolutely a No True Scotsman Fallacy. Mormons are followers of Christ, despite other Christian sects trying to oust them because they make you uncomfortable.
The Amish are still Mennonites too, even though they've branched off and developed along a different path.
Just like Protestants are still Christians even though they've branched off from Catholicism and developed along a different path and hold different beliefs.
YOU don't get to choose, otherwise it would be the Catholics getting the day on whether you're a real Christian or not. I'm betting you wouldn't want that.
Mormons unequivocally consider themselves to be Christians and if we're being frank they're much better Christians than most of the rest of you. For all their faults and weird doctrines, they at least walk the walk. They don't just talk to elevate themselves over others and faith isn't an "in" club for them like it is for the vast majority of Christians. They're not fair weather followers.
You keep bringing up that radical feminist as some kind of weak "gotcha". It's not. No, I don't have a Tshirt. I don't believe as she believes. Doesn't matter, I don't need to to recognize that because of that open door "it's a journey" policy, she gets to define herself as a feminist and there's not a damned thing I can do about it. It's not like there's a test, a credentialling process, a boot camp, a secret handshake, an ID card, a special badge, or whatever. That's what open door policies mean. On occasion you get bad actors or people who drift away from the core beliefs too far.
You hope to bring them back in line with the main group's belief system because they give you a bad name.
Doesn't matter. As long as it's a self identifying structure, she gets to call herself a feminist and Mormons are Christians every bit as much as you are.
It really doesn't matter what YOU think about it or whatever cockamamie theology you've studied. Another who rightfully identifies as Christian will have a different theology and interpretation of that bronze age fiction.
Believe what you want. It's not real.
