Creepy Condescending Wonka

...because their religion involves Jesus Christ, doesn't it?

Yes.but it's like the crazy precursor to Scientology with the whole Golden Plates that no one but Joseph Smith and few others have ever been allowed to read.

So they seem like crazier Christians than other variations of Christianity, but it's still a form of Christianity. Scientology, to my knowledge, never mentions Christ at all in all their craziness.

Capitalizing on the capacity for "belief" is the true culprit anyway.

I dunno. If people were more discerning about what to put their faith in, it shouldn't matter how smooth the charlatans and their hoobjoob.

Christianity is monotheism. Mormonism is polytheism.

Christianity is literally a belief that Jesus is Christ. Mormonism may be a fringe variation of Christianity that bears little resemblance to most other versions, but Okham's razor here: at what point are you adding conditions into the definition of a religion just so that you can declassify the ones you don't like? How long before we're back to Protestants saying that the Catholics aren't real Christians and vice versa?

Monotheism is an essential.

[image deleted]Says who?

Says Christ (e.g. - John 17:3, Matthew 28:18-20).

The name "Christian" is just that - a name. It's not logical to use it to set boundaries about which beliefs constitute the essential nature of Christ's religion.

If we're discussing that word - the label - as the OP uses it in the meme, then yes, it IS logical to use the name to set the boundaries. If we're discussing the legitimacy of the religion in the wider theological context, you're right - you have to go to the source text and discuss the finer points of what's important to Christianity - but guess what, then we start bickering about whether Calvinists and the Lutherans understood the message of Christianity, whether Jesus was a moral compass or a voice for the poor or a straight up activist against Roman occupation, we start discussing the appropriate role of the Old Testament in Christianity - and then we start stripping away the Christian title from a whole bunch of people who would swear to their dying breath that they were Christians.

The meme is very vaguely worded and leaves this REALLY open ended, but I submit that it's arguing this from the approach of the label of Christianity as a word, which, with all due respect, it really doesn't take much to qualify for just the name.

You're more than welcome to lecture me on what YOUR Christian church believes in - but let's be clear on what this is: this is two people who aren't Mormon, contending over how Mormons classify themselves. I'm no less guilty than you are of trying to define something I'm not a part of.