"Mormonism is not considered by evangelicals or conservative Catholics as being an orthodox - with a small "o" - view of the Christian faith," he says. "There is one [phrase] from their scripture: 'As man now is, God once was. As God now is man may become.' The only orthodox Christian thing there is the punctuation," he says.
But is it a cult? "I wouldn't call it a cult but it claims to be Christian and isn't. It's theology is like a cult but socially and culturally it doesn't act like a cult." In that way, he says, it is more "mainstream. They don't withdraw, they don't live in communities, they're not like Jehovah's Witnesses or James Jones."
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