PewResearchCenter - new report
PewResearchCenter - new report
The new stats are in.
https://www.pewforum.org/2021/12/14/abo ... ffiliated/
Interesting to see the Catholics holding their own - I need to watch the documentary on their pope.
Mormon figs:
https://www.pewforum.org/religious-land ... on/mormon/
↑ haha, they are still "Mormons".
56%→54%, uh oh, women are leaving the church....
86% 3rd generation or higher
10% post-grad degrees,
only 4% use Science as a source of guidance on right and wrong
62% believe in hell
Just random article, thought I would post for discussions.
https://www.pewforum.org/2021/12/14/abo ... ffiliated/
Interesting to see the Catholics holding their own - I need to watch the documentary on their pope.
Mormon figs:
https://www.pewforum.org/religious-land ... on/mormon/
↑ haha, they are still "Mormons".
56%→54%, uh oh, women are leaving the church....
86% 3rd generation or higher
10% post-grad degrees,
only 4% use Science as a source of guidance on right and wrong
62% believe in hell
Just random article, thought I would post for discussions.
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As a super quick note, the Mormon specific figures are from 2014. I am really hoping they update those post COVID, although it's a small sample size and just one poll so I wouldn't draw *too* much from it.
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Are the Mormons not sharing their info anymore?
Here is everyone together:
https://www.pewforum.org/religious-land ... tradition/
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86% absolutely certain of the existence of God
85% pray at least once a day
Yet...
49% feel a sense of wonder about the universe at least once a week
85% pray at least once a day
Yet...
49% feel a sense of wonder about the universe at least once a week
“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” -Mark Twain
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Jesus: "The Kingdom of God is within you." The Buddha: "Be your own light."
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JW's appear to win for wonder, followed by Buddhists - interesting.
The JW's appear to win on everything:
https://www.pewforum.org/religious-land ... tradition/
Jehovah - at least they got his name right in the name of their church.
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Why would you wonder about anything when the only product of your religion is absolute certainty about everything?
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Mormons are statistically insignificant. There's just not enough of them to get meaningful results without a large survey. And the oddities of their geographic spread complicates.
The best data we have, from multiple different surveys, studies, and reports, show that Mormons have held pretty constant at about 2%. Or maybe it's 1.9%. But, that distinction is less than the margin of error. It's very hard to get any meaningful info about Mormon growth. Maybe Mormonism is in decline, but we're certain it's not growing by leaps and bounds throughout all the earth.
It's easier to create meaningful studies about changes in Mormons, but harder to collect the data in a cross-sectional study.
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Some results are to be expected:
Hindus are the most educated religious group
Jews are the richest religious group.
Mormons are the most married religious group
Hindus are the most educated religious group
Jews are the richest religious group.
Mormons are the most married religious group
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Huh?! What? I thought we didn't believe in hell. Or at least the Catholic/Protestant version of it. That's sad. Another abandonment of the Mormon tradition towards something that I see as unhealthier and less unique in Christian theology.
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For some reason, Mormons have a deep desire to be accepted by evangelical Christians, as if that is the standard of public approval. Saying we believe in hell is probably just another acquiescence in that effort.stealthbishop wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:51 amHuh?! What? I thought we didn't believe in hell. Or at least the Catholic/Protestant version of it. That's sad. Another abandonment of the Mormon tradition towards something that I see as unhealthier and less unique in Christian theology.
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Yup, that's my guess too blazerb. So DUMB!!! Dumb da dumb da dumb.blazerb wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:26 amFor some reason, Mormons have a deep desire to be accepted by evangelical Christians, as if that is the standard of public approval. Saying we believe in hell is probably just another acquiescence in that effort.stealthbishop wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:51 amHuh?! What? I thought we didn't believe in hell. Or at least the Catholic/Protestant version of it. That's sad. Another abandonment of the Mormon tradition towards something that I see as unhealthier and less unique in Christian theology.
Probably one major reason is because both American Evangelicals and LDS share a fundamentalist/literalist view of scripture. Another is, "please don't hurt us LDS people you Evangelicals because you are so powerful and we share a distrust of secular society who is the real enemy".
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