New LDS Seminary Curriculum

[Marie5890]

One-tenths of all Americans describe themsleves are “former Catholics”. See pewresearch.org/daily-number/americas-former-catholics/. Has the RCC removed those people from their books? Or do they a keep record of them in the hope that they’ll return?

The Catholic church is loosing it’s membership, and we don’t pretend otherwise. We see it, we feel it.

We are not blind to the reality in our pews. There is a great interview by Raymond Arroyo with then Cardinal Ratzinger (who would become Benedict XVI) about how he sees the Catholic church becoming much smaller, yet stronger, in the future. It’s a great interview in one is interested. The program is called “the world over”

I am not as convince that the LDS church is that open and honest about it’s membership. It keeps touting it’s numbers as some kind of proof of…something…

 

[truthseeker32]

“…more likely an attempt to stop the bleeding of LDS leaving in droves…”
“…another desperate attempt to keep their youth from leaving…”
“…Mormonism, like many other denominations, are loosing members at a high rate…”

http://i64.tinypic.com/119cf9f.png

BYU sociologists have calculated that global LDS activity is less than 30 percent, and falling. In 2000, the LDS Church claimed that it had nearly 750,000 Mormons in Brazil, but less than 200,000 Brazilians identified as LDS. Furthermore, growth through conversion has decreased every year since 1995, and is now below 3 percent. Of the 3 percent that converts annually, less than a third will remain, which makes for a real conversion rate of less than 1 percent annually. Coupled with the fact that born-and-raised Mormons are leaving in large numbers, as admitted by LDS leaders like Elder Marlin K. Jensen, the LDS Church, at best, is remaining stagnant at around 4-5 million active members.

 

[Horton]

Another chart
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/LDSGrowthRate2015.png

And one more
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/LDSvsWorld10YearMA.png

 

[Tarquin]

If your claim is that you think this new curriculum will, by and large, weaken students’ apologetic prowess—as you said, “the ability of students to engage in apologetics …] is somewhat weakened as memorization of scriptures supporting their views is reduced or eliminated”—then what is the church’s aim?

The church’s *aim *is to *strengthen *the ability of students to engage in apologetics.
The church’s method, as it so often is, is naive.

 

[kdbueno]

LDS doctrinal wisdom is not radically truthful in its moral core.

 

[Tarquin]

LDS doctrinal wisdom is not radically truthful in its moral core.

kdbueno, would you please elaborate on this. “Doctrinal wisdom” - do you mean knowledge about Christian doctrine, or wisdom based on Christian doctrine, or something else?? What is the moral core of that? Thanks.