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$\"\"$ <\/a> $\"\"$ <\/a>Last week, the Mormon church<\/a> officially ended calling itself \u201cMormon\u201d and its worshippers \u201cMormons.\u201d It\u2019s official name has always been \u201cthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints<\/a>.\u201d So, the church\u2019s 93-year old president, Russell M. Nelson announced that \u201cMormon,\u201d Mormonism,\u201d and \u201cL.D.S.\u201d are no longer acceptable identifications.<\/p>\n

According to church doctrine, its founder, Joseph Smith, gave the church this name, \u201cthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,\u201d in 1838. President Nelson has has a campaign going since 1990 to abolish the name Mormon and return to the church\u2019s original name. But he has not been successful in doing so, perhaps until now. What really did it was that Mr. Nelson claims God told him to make this change. You can\u2019t argue with such subjectivism unless you claim that God told you that the Mormon church should not abolish the name Mormon!<\/p>\n

Will this change really stick? I doubt it. President Nelson offered no suggestions about how to otherwise identify Mormons with any reasonable label besides \u201cmember of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,\u201d which is a mouthful I doubt few non-members, especially from the media, will chew on.<\/p>\n

The ironical part of all this is that the church says its \u201cBook of Mormon\u201d is equally inspired by God as the Bible is. Will the church change the name of its own Book of Mormon to \u201cthe Book of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints\u201d?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"