Mormon Church Trying to Keep the Wheels On

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If you’ll notice in the chart I shared, they consider 158 million Americans as “unclaimed”. Most of those would answer that they’re a Christian on a survey. But, that number was arrived at by figuring out how many active members every denomination has. So, you’re left with roughly half of all Americans who aren’t actually officially part of a Church or religion of any kind. Again, most of them would probably consider themselves Christian. Some might even go to small ‘house churches’. But most of them are what the Protestants call “the unchurched”.

So yeah, you’re right in that overall, this country is becoming less religious period. I encourage y’all to look at the data for your state on there. It’s very fascinating. But almost every state has a majority of the population listed as “unclaimed”. Again, they’re not going to any Church or religious body that would consider them a member.

So, as the Bible promises us for all times, “the harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few”.

Y’all can look at your state’s data here:
http://www.thearda.com/rcms2010/selectState.asp
 
The Mormon Church is strong and organized, they are dominating almost every field there is to serve in.
 
That’s a rather harsh accusation to say I’m trolling. In my opinion the LDS church dominates in their abilities to develop leaders and academia success in any community. Think Mia Love or Bill Marriott for examples. For such a small body of members the LDS dominates in an lot of fields.
 
Remember you are posting on a Catholic forum. Yes, this sub-forum is Non-Catholic Religions but Proselytizing is against the rules.

All religions have created great leaders. Look at Pope Francis, or any other of the thousands if not millions of great leaders in the last 2000 years who have been shaped by the Catholic Church. The LDS do not dominate in any field, business or academia. You must live in a very small world to believe this.
 
@TLObeys, do you have any evidence supportng your opinion that the Mormon church “dominates in their abilities to develop leaders and academia success in any community”? Could you please name some of these communities?

Thank you.
 
Perhaps if you live in Utah it may seem dominate. In the world outside Utah, Mormons are not relevant.
 
I’ve been working in my field for 40 years and have seen and worked with many Mormons in California, Arizona and Nevada. Mormons seem to be about like everyone else. Some are excellent employees, most are average and some are below average. Certainly I’ve never seen any dominance.
 
Maybe you have been around Mormons quite a bit, but based on your post you do not what’s currently going on within the church.

These changes are in fact a big deal, and are indicative of an overall recent trend of the Mormon church softening it’s practices and policies to slow its decline. I have written many posts about how the internet is destroying the church by exposing the fraud of its truth claims, history, etc. More and more LDS are discovering the lies of Mormonism and are leaving. They are not leaving out of apathy. They are leaving because they are discovering how badly they have been deceived for so long. It’s no coincidence that the church is changing so many policies right now to make it more palatable to those who are in faith crisis.

I will address a couple the points you brought up:
  1. The missionary age change thing has nothing to do with a mission/college break. issue. The truth is that there numbers were in decline and it needed to be fixed. This fix is only temporary though, because they can’t go any lower (except maybe changing women from 19 to 18 like the men.)
  2. If that was your cousin was doing, then she was in clear violation of the policy against communicating with family via phone (except on Christmas or Mother’s Day) or social media. Any Mormon can tell you that.
  3. I will admit the pants thing is not major, but it is just one more chink in the armor. Forbidding female missionaries from wearing pants has been a very long standing policy. And now it suddenly changes. Why now? What’s going on right now that they feel the need for the change? I wonder.
 
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I couldn’t disagree more. These changes are a result of so many LDS going through faith crisis because of problems with doctrine, history, etc. It’s not cultural because it comes down right from the leadership.
 
You two are having the exact disagreement that I engaged in over the weekend. I don’t think the two of you are 180 degrees apart. The way I read it, AngelaMarie’s point is that these are not doctrinal issues and don’t make or break the religion. I agree with that. Chris’s reply is that these cultural changes are a result of doctrines that are problematic and the change in culture is an attempt to reel the weak members back into the fold. I agree with that as well.

I don’t see the issues of Sister missionaries wearing slacks to be an issue at all. Just a simple policy change. The same with missionaries contacting their families weekly. But the reasons for all these radical policy changes are worth exploring. I doubt it has anything to do with doctrinal changes or new revelation. This is about putting hub caps on tractors. Or lipstick on pigs.
 
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It seems that the Mormons like us Catholics are struggling in this age of secularism
 
LOL 😃 😉

What is a day if there is not some sort of Mormon thing in the Non-Catholic forum, ya know??
 
Since my father was mormon, my family is mormon the state I live in is 25 percent mormon the mormon church grows here at about 17000 ever ten years. And those stats are real. By comparison the Catholic Church in my area is losing members even with illegal immigration , parishes are consolidating and you can really spread out in Mass. In my state, the mormon Church is growing, the Catholic Church is shrinking.
 
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