[Ldsoss] Re: wikipedia becoming anti-mormon?

[Sean M. Cox]

Perhaps one could've argued that a slight rewording was necessary for 
clarity. (Perhaps "comparable" rather than "in-line".) I can't imagine 
why this is cause to imagine that this segment of the article was part 
of the anti-mormon propaganda machine. I think that despite the partial 
citation you point out, the article was clear that we are in fact 
significantly different from Arius in our theology. It just seemed, 
pretty darned fair and I wouldn't have minded sharing it with all my 
friends and neighbors without the slightest hesitation. I probably 
wouldn't be comfortable mentioning that overzealous mormons launched a 
brief cyber-political holy war (battle) attacking a fairly NPOV comment 
describing our religion.
> My point was that was not "in-line with Arianism"

As far as the Nicene Creed goes, and flexibility of interpretation, its 
interpretation is certainly flexible enough to put our church in gross 
violation. This is especially true from the POV of numerous traditional 
Christians and it is explicitly not a violation of the NPOV to mention 
that fact.

Unlike Arius, we don't believe in ex nihilo creation, we believe 
intelligences were "organized", and generally speaking, I'm not too sure 
we know what we mean by that. (It's hard to know what that means when we 
don't even know rightly what an intelligence is.) However, it smells 
very similar to Arianism (minus the ex nihilo) so we get called Arians. 
I really think that's alot deeper than the wikipedia piece needed to go, 
and as it was, it wasn't bad.

That's my POV, but I suppose I ought be silent on this issue now. I 
signed up to the list because of all the great stuff I heard about being 
developed, and I think my further POV'ing on this issue would be 
counterproductive to that end. What's done is done.