Muslim, Mormon growth spurts found (250% the muslims in the US now than on 9/11)

The Washington Times ^ | May 2, 2012 | Mark A. Kellner

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Mormonism and Islam are among the fastest growing religions in America, while just over half of all Americans are unaffiliated with any denomination, according to a major census of the country’s religious congregations published Wednesday.

The decennial census, released by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies in Chicago, found that the U.S. Muslim community had increased 160 percent from approximately 1 million in 2000 to 2.6 million in 2010.

[Chode]

that's cause we haven't played Cowboys and muslimes yet...

[daniel1212]

How Did Mormons Grow So Fast? They Changed How They Counted

SALT LAKE CITY — If you suspected the newly released U.S. Religion Census overstated the Mormons’ growth rate, you were right. That’s because, this time around, the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints changed the way it reported its membership to the researchers.

..Its report pegged U.S. Mormon growth at 45.5 percent, jumping from 4.2 million in 2000 to 6.1 million in 2010. The 2000 figure, however, was much lower than the 5.2 million listed in the LDS church’s own almanac for that year. If researchers had been given that figure, the percentage of growth would have been considerably smaller, closer to 18 percent.

[Previously] ....the LDS church “left out numbers of members who, although baptized, were not currently associated with a specific congregation. This year, we included total membership numbers to more accurately reflect all of those found on church records.”

Dale Jones, a researcher on the Religion Census, said he wished the LDS church had alerted him about the change in its reporting methods....

The rest is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/how-did-mormons-grow-so-fast-they-changed-how-they-counted/2012/05/04/gIQAErNm1T_story.html

Some others do the same, but if Mormons counted the dead they baptized they could really cook the books! The first 5 FReepers pinged above can provide much info on the LDS.

[daniel1212]

The LDS church does not remove any name from the list unless the person is excommunicated, or asks to be removed or is dead. Thus a lot of Baptist, etc. could also be counted as Mormons. Unless there is a uniform means of counting members then such figures are highly suspect. It is known that Watchtower Society (so-called JW’s) have about as many that leave as come in.

[cookcounty]

"There’s also another factor at play. There is a certain number of folks who have converted to Islam since 9-11 simply because they have seen the sheer level of fear and respect that Islam gets from politicians and the media, and how everyone walks on eggshells around them. To lonely, disaffected people, having that kind of aura of power around you is a very tempting drug"

Bingo.

[dragnet2]

Thousands of former soldiers of the Iraqi army who defected were settled in the United States.

Why in tarnation would the U.S. Government do that?

[Tennessee Nana]

Mormonism has only grown 20% in the last decade not 45%

they cooked their books 10 years ago and got found out

now its a matter of oh gollie gee look at that...

[daniel1212]

From http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/maps/ardausmaps.asp

2007: Percent Identifying as Protestant (US Religious Landscape Survey )

Rank

State ^

Value

1

Alabama

81.40

2

Mississippi

80.70

3

Arkansas

77.40

4

South Carolina

76.30

5

Tennessee

76.10

6

North Carolina

73.10

7

Oklahoma

71.10

8

Kentucky

69.70

9

West Virginia

69

10

Georgia

68.60

11

South Dakota

60.50

12

Missouri

59.30

13

Virginia

59.30

14

Indiana

58.40

15

Louisiana

58.10

16

Kansas

56.70

17

Texas

56.30

18

Ohio

54.50

19

North Dakota

54.50

20

Iowa

53.30

21

Minnesota

52.10

22

Michigan

51.40

23

Maryland

51.20

24

Nebraska

50.80

25

Pennsylvania

49.30

26

Wisconsin

47.50

27

Wyoming

47.20

28

Florida

47.20

29

Montana

46.60

30

Washington

45.20

31

Delaware

43.70

32

Oregon

43.50

33

Illinois

43.20

34

New Mexico

41.10

35

Maine

40.50

36

Colorado

40.30

37

Arizona

37.80

38

Idaho

36.70

39

California

33.30

40

Vermont

33.20

41

New Hampshire

31.50

42

New Jersey

30.40

43

New York

29.40

44

Massachusetts

27.80

45

Connecticut

26.10

46

Nevada

24.20

47

Rhode Island

22.20

48

Utah

11.50

49

Hawaii

--

50

Alaska

--

Evangelical Denominations--Total Adherents (2000)

Rank	State ^	Value
1	Texas	5,083,087
2	California	2,433,216
3	Georgia	2,273,901
4	Florida	2,244,419
5	Tennessee	2,102,490
6	North Carolina	2,058,831
7	Alabama	1,804,961
8	Oklahoma	1,431,694
9	Missouri	1,384,605
10	Kentucky	1,361,067
11	Illinois	1,277,007
12	Virginia	1,211,065
13	South Carolina	1,179,544
14	Arkansas	1,153,527
15	Mississippi	1,130,113
16	Ohio	1,129,641
17	Michigan	1,072,132
18	Indiana	972,810
19	Louisiana	962,348
20	Pennsylvania	704,204
21	Wisconsin	679,029
22	Washington	579,320
23	New York	559,060
24	Minnesota	548,089
25	Arizona	486,247
26	Colorado	457,234
27	Kansas	419,798
28	Maryland	409,460
29	Oregon	388,999
30	Iowa	342,354
31	Nebraska	250,151
32	New Mexico	237,767
33	New Jersey	203,097
34	West Virginia	200,083
35	Massachusetts	150,505
36	Idaho	115,857
37	Nevada	107,681
38	South Dakota	104,264
39	Montana	100,669
40	Hawaii	98,554
41	Connecticut	81,946
42	Alaska	78,070
43	North Dakota	62,506
44	Wyoming	56,063
45	Utah	42,420
46	Maine	42,391
47	Delaware	40,408
48	New Hampshire	30,131
49	Rhode Island	16,974
50	Vermont	14,759

 

2007: Percent Identifying as Catholic (US Religious Landscape Survey )

Rank	State ^	Value
1	Rhode Island	44.30
2	Massachusetts	43.30
3	Connecticut	43.10
4	New Jersey	42.30
5	New York	38.90
6	Illinois	32.20
7	North Dakota	32.20
8	California	30.70
9	Nebraska	30.50
10	Maine	29.40
11	New Hampshire	29.10
12	Pennsylvania	29.10
13	Wisconsin	28.80
14	Louisiana	28.40
15	Vermont	28.10
16	Minnesota	27.60
17	Nevada	27
18	Delaware	26.90
19	Florida	26.50
20	New Mexico	25.90
21	Iowa	25.20
22	Arizona	24.60
23	Texas	24.10
24	Kansas	23.30
25	Michigan	23.20
26	Wyoming	23.10
27	Montana	22.90
28	Ohio	20.90
29	South Dakota	19.70
30	Colorado	19.50
31	Maryland	18.70
32	Indiana	18
33	Idaho	17.60
34	Missouri	17.50
35	Washington	16.20
36	Oregon	14.20
37	Virginia	14.20
38	Kentucky	13.90
39	Oklahoma	11.80
40	Georgia	11.50
41	Utah	9.90
42	North Carolina	9.20
43	Mississippi	8.90
44	South Carolina	7.60
45	West Virginia	6.80
46	Tennessee	6.60
47	Alabama	6.20
48	Arkansas	5.10
49	Hawaii	--
50	Alaska	--	More stats: ►STATISTICS COMPARING CATHOLICS + EVANGELICALS ►STATISTICAL CORRELATIONS chart (comparing many aspects of 50 states)

[SgtHooper]

“...comes Islam will be wiped out.””

Hey, let’s prepare the way!

[SgtHooper]

When religions promise godhood and lots of sex, the growth in membership is a no-brainer!

[Dagnabitt]

The wholesale importation of an enemy into our homeland is insane and beyond comprehension.

That it happened after 9-11 is even more mind-numbing

Unfortunately in the wake of the massive Muslim terrorist attack we had the bad luck of having two successive open-borders zealots in the White House.

One, Bush Jr., was a zealot because he's just isn't too bright and thinks it's “compassionate” to open our homeland to uncontrolled 3rd-world population transfers.

The other, Hussein, is a zealot because he's bright enough to know that such immigration is one sure way of permanently destroying that which he hates: The United States of America.

[donna]

Well, President Bush said Islam is the religion of peace.

[karnage]

Your first two lines are right on the mark!

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Are you the owner of that stats site? I spent quite some time looking at that material