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Special report -Mormonism besieged by the modern age [Lds church is hemorrhaging in member losses]
Reuters ^ | Jan. 29, 2012 | Peter Henderson and Kristina Cooke

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."...

SNIP

...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.

SNIP

...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."

SNIP

"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 ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Other Christian; Other non-Christian; Religion & Culture; Theology
KEYWORDS: abandonment; faith; inman; lds; mormon
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To: greyfoxx39

OUCH!!!!!


161 posted on 02/02/2012 3:40:26 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: greyfoxx39
Now we have to wonder...

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
Oh oh!
162 posted on 02/02/2012 3:41:27 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: greyfoxx39

Look at the 19 second image!!!

Who copied from WHOM???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Wx2M7a5Wg&feature=relmfu


163 posted on 02/02/2012 3:43:53 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: greyfoxx39

please explain this picture, did they steal this picture from a stock photo?


164 posted on 02/02/2012 4:23:42 PM PST by RaceBannon (Ron Paul is to the Constitution what Fred Phelps is to the Bible.)
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To: RaceBannon

Looks like they used some of their billions to buy it...maybe.


165 posted on 02/02/2012 4:35:05 PM PST by greyfoxx39 (Romney seems like a creature put on Earth to blend in with the humans and report back what he finds.)
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To: ansel12

Got WHAT??

I just wanted to emphasize the behavior..


167 posted on 02/02/2012 5:52:06 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: SENTINEL

Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.


168 posted on 02/02/2012 8:21:51 PM PST by Religion Moderator
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To: greyfoxx39; Scoutmaster; Elsie

Make your points without including getty photos - they are copyright protected.


169 posted on 02/02/2012 9:17:13 PM PST by Religion Moderator
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To: Religion Moderator

I had assumed the ones with watermarks were usable.

What if one takes the ‘image’ and goes Warhol on it?


170 posted on 02/03/2012 4:14:18 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie

No.


171 posted on 02/03/2012 7:57:37 AM PST by Religion Moderator
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To: Biggirl

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.


172 posted on 02/03/2012 8:12:52 AM PST by pennyfarmer (Even a RINO will chew its foot off when caught in a trap.)
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To: Godzilla
Tapir back rider

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...."

174 posted on 02/04/2012 7:07:44 PM PST by CommerceComet (If Mitt can leave the GOP to protest Reagan, why can't I do the same in protest of Romney?)
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To: pennyfarmer; Elsie
Too hard to call. After all there is a higher being. Thankfully as an Apostate Mormon I know there is more to our existence than what all the so called new Christians advocate. Much too narrow for me. Sorry Elsie.
175 posted on 02/04/2012 7:19:28 PM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: Utah Binger

Bah!

Don’t listen to the NEW ones; but the OLD ones! ;^)


176 posted on 02/05/2012 5:02:17 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie

An old guy up this early? On Sunday? Oh yeah, you’ve got to build the goat bleachers for the game.


177 posted on 02/05/2012 5:11:47 AM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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