And were you to really dig into the numbers you would find that nearly 85% of the growth in the mormon church is due to mormon births with only about 15% of ANY growth.
Fact latest info shows only a 1.62% growth (NCC 2012 Yearbook of Churches).
Retention rate of converts down to 25% after one year (yet lds maintain the other 75% on the books to keep their numbers up). (Reuters 2012 news article)
Those number, plus statement from their own leaders that membership is declining.
Those number, plus statement from their own leaders that membership is declining.
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The LDS are finding it harder and harder to keep up the myth.
One thing I read on a forum said that the rise in leaving the LDS church is proof the LDS church is ‘true’ because it is fulfilling a prophecy of Joseph Smith. OY!