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Posted on 02/01/2012 4:50:21 AM PST by Colofornian
...A religious studies class late last year at Utah State University...was unusual for two reasons. The small group of students, faculty and faithful there to hear Mormon Elder Marlin Jensen were openly troubled about the future...asking hard questions. And Jensen was uncharacteristically frank...
Did the leaders...know that members are "leaving in droves?" a woman asked.
"We are aware," said Jensen, according to a tape recording of his unscripted remarks. "And I'm speaking of the 15 men that are above me in the hierarchy of the church."...
"My own daughter," he then added, "has come to me and said, 'Dad, why didn't you ever tell me that Joseph Smith was a polygamist?'..."Everything's out there for them to consume if they want to Google it."...
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...census data from some foreign countries...show that the retention rate for their converts is as low as 25 percent. In the U.S., only about half of Mormons are active members of the church...
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...the Web has intensified debate over...the history the church teaches.
Not since...the 1837 failure of a church bank in Kirtland, Ohio, have so many left the church, Jensen said.
"Maybe since Kirtland, we've never had a period of - I'll call it apostasy, like we're having now," he told the group in Logan.
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...a non-practicing Mormon...for years filed away on a mental "shelf" concerns about the historical veracity of the religion's central text..."It came to a point where the shelf was too heavy," he said. He quit attending ..."Ok, I'm done."
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"There have been discussions at LDS church headquarters about...Romney's presidential bid," a person briefed on the talks said. "One concern is that Romney's campaign could further energize evangelical antipathy toward the church..."
..."having a Mormon president could raise the church's profile and legitimize it in other countries."
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...
OUCH!!!!!
Are THESE 'real'??
Watch this video on www.youtube.com
| …and I'm a MormonWife, mother, and Mayor. My name is Mia Love, and I'm a Mormon. YouTube.com/Mormon |
Look at the 19 second image!!!
Who copied from WHOM???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Wx2M7a5Wg&feature=relmfu
please explain this picture, did they steal this picture from a stock photo?
Looks like they used some of their billions to buy it...maybe.
Got WHAT??
I just wanted to emphasize the behavior..
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
Make your points without including getty photos - they are copyright protected.
I had assumed the ones with watermarks were usable.
What if one takes the ‘image’ and goes Warhol on it?
No.
If Christians are not there when they fall from the Mormon church the logical step they take is Athieism as it is the closest theology to their current beliefs about God.
One of my favorite Beatles' song - I didn't realize that it came from the BOM. ;-)
"Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?
It's based on a novel by a man named Lear...."
Bah!
Don’t listen to the NEW ones; but the OLD ones! ;^)
An old guy up this early? On Sunday? Oh yeah, you’ve got to build the goat bleachers for the game.
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