Investigation ongoing following police shooting death of suspected attacker
The man suspected of shooting up a Mormon worship event in Michigan on Sunday, killing at least four and leaving the structure burned out, “hated” people of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormon church.
That’s according to Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary for President Donald Trump.
Trump earlier decried the additional attack on “Christians” in America, and society in general puts the organization and its members among the widely considered “Christian” church.
He said, “This appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians in the United States of America. The Trump Administration will keep the Public posted, as we always do. In the meantime, PRAY for the victims, and their families. THIS EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE IN OUR COUNTRY MUST END.”
Some leaders of other Christian groups, however, point to the extra-biblical teachings adopted and accepted by the Mormons to challenge that assumption.
Christianity.com has posted a response to that exact question with a blunt answer.
“The answer to that question is easy and straightforward: ‘no.
