Posted on 01/01/2024 7:25:54 PM PST by Morgana
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Since Utah became a state in the late 1800s, most of its residents have been members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But according to a new study, Utah isn’t majority Mormon anymore.
A paper published this month in the Journal of Religion and Demography estimates that the percentage of Utahns who identify as members of the LDS church, otherwise known as Mormons, is about 42%.
That’s markedly lower than previous media reports citing the church’s numbers, which put the percentage of Mormons in Utah at around 60% as recently as 2020.
“We’re not trying to say that the LDS church is wrong, it’s just we’re using very different approaches to get to gather this information,” said Ryan T. Cragun, lead author on the study, who teaches sociology at the University of Tampa. The method
To get their numbers, Cragun and his fellow researchers contracted a survey of roughly 1,900 Utahns, with quotas for age, sex and ethnicity aligning with official census data for Utah. This method is called “quota sampling.”
Michael Wood, assistant professor of sociology at Brigham Young University, who was not connected to the study, said quota sampling is commonly used in the field with accepted limitations, which he noted that Cragun and his co-authors acknowledged.
“It is a provocative study with compelling arguments,” Wood told ABC4 in an email, adding that “further research with a more robust sampling method is needed to confirm the findings.”
In the survey, which was conducted in the summer of 2022, the nearly 2,000 participants were asked a variety of questions, and among them was how they identified on religious grounds.
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Stopped at a Walmart in Utah once. Unlike EVERY Other Walmart I’ve ever been in, they didn’t have people checking receipts when I left - that says something about the character of the people there.
The LSD church of Romney
None of them are on welfare. I read it in a Thomas Sowell book-Ethnic America.
Mormons are just like everyone else. There are some that I think really believe in Jesus Christ and try to do His will then there are some that are just clueless because of the Book of Mormon.
BYU a Mormon University is responsible for making a fantastic movie about the Constitutional Convention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vs5anM_LVU
The State of Utah has a deal with the Mormon religion to count the contributions mormons make to providing welfare as part of the state program...
The SEC is probing the cult over a $100 billion fund
I’m not a big fan of their religion, but this is just more proof that diversity = genocide and replacement.
Or Californians fleeing their woke utopia who want to be within a 10 hour drive of LA
People are recognizing the cult of Jos. Smith and Brigham Young, for what it is.
As a 20-something, I knew a nice, clean cut young white fellow, who’s life was ‘bangin’ (on doors) for Brigham’. He was looking for his own planet to rule.
Eventually, he ‘banged for Brigham’ on the wrong door. He met a Pentecostal preacher who, over time, showed him the errors in mormonism, and the mormon misinterpretation of the Bible. He also informed the young man of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857.
Eventually, that young man accepted Yeshua as his Lord and Saviour, went to Bible college, and was eventually ordained as a Pentecostal pastor. That young man is now in his late 50s and is the Pastor at a Pentecostal church in Alberta.
That’s truly a shame. No finer and devout people in America.
I don’t think that’s fair, Catholics have Biden, Baptists have Clinton, etc. I may not agree with LDS, but they do have their benefits. I think they vote against Democrats as much as any group.
Let’s see. Besides Mittens, there’s Blake (Az.) and. Harry Reid. Perhaps Reid was an honest one whereas the other 2(+ others) are liars-part of the cult?
St. George, as well as Moab, have been overrun by latte-sipping, nose-ringed, techie bicycle fanatics.
Utah has the culture of pennsylvania of 1840 extrapolated into the future
Harry had a Temple Recommend when he died, Romney and Glenn Beck are also Temple Mormons, Romney was a Bishop and also a Stake President.
According to the Mormon religion Reid is a God now and Romney and Beck anticipate becoming Gods.
God with a little g.
Right, they get their own planet to rule over but I think they still have a bigger God over them an ex-human though.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/mormons-believe-god/
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