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#REDIRECT [[Question: Is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a "cult"?]]
==Criticism==
 
Critics claim that the Church is "a cult."
 
 
 
===Source(s) of the Criticism===
 
* ''The Utah Evangel'' 31 (May 1984): 1.
 
* ''The Utah Evangel'' 33 (May 1986): 3.
 
* Walter Martin, ''The Kingdom of the Cults'', revised and expanded, (Minneapolis: Bethan House, 1985), 173.
 
 
 
==Response==
 
The response should be brief and summary in nature.
 
 
 
==Conclusion==
 
 
 
A summary of the argument against the criticism.
 
 
 
==Endnotes==
 
 
 
==Further reading==
 
 
 
===FAIR wiki articles===
 
*Logical fallacies
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#Ad_hominem | Ad hominem]]
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#Appeal_to_authority | Appeal to authority]]
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#Appeal_to_belief | Appeal to belief]]
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#Appeal_to_the_majority | Appeal to the majority]]
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#Appeal_to_tradition | Appeal to tradition]]
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#Argument_from_repetition | Argument from repetition]]
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#Argumentum_ad_numerum | Argument ad numerum]]
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#Bandwagon_fallacy | Bandwagon fallacy]]
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#Begging_the_question | Begging the question]]
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#False_analogy | False analogy]]
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#False_premise | False premise]]
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#Ideology_over_reality | Ideology over reality]]
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#No_true_Scotsman | No true Scotsman]]
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#Poisoning_the_well | Poisoning the well]]
 
** [[Logical_fallacies#Straw_man | Straw man]]
 
 
 
*[[Latter-day Saints aren't Christians]]
 
 
 
===FAIR web site===
 
*FAIR Topical Guide: [[http://www.fairlds.org/apol/ai042.html LDS Church as "a cult"]]
 
 
 
 
 
===External links===
 
*Orson Scott Card, "Hey, Who Are You Calling a Cult?" [http://www.beliefnet.com/story/49/story_4906_1.htmlhttp://www.beliefnet.com/story/49/story_4906_1.html *]
 
*{{aremormonschristian}}
 
 
 
===Printed material===
 
*Printed resources whose text is not available online
 

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