THE church is the end all and be all for most Mormons. Their whole live revolves AND is in service to it.
Actually this isn't accurate. Most Mormons don't attend Church at all, the vast majority in fact. Of those that do (around five and a half million) less than half of them are tithe paying adults. So there's a less than 3 million truly invested adult members, globally. When you consider a fair proportion of those tithe paying adults are married to each other, there's somewhere south of two million Mormon families. Less again if you want to roll to extended families.
"Most Mormons" is a pitifully microscopic demographic.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
THE church is the end all and be all for most Mormons. Their whole live revolves AND is in service to it.
Actually this isn't accurate. Most Mormons don't attend Church at all, the vast majority in fact. Of those that do (around five and a half million) less than half of them are tithe paying adults. So there's a less than 3 million truly invested adult members, globally. When you consider a fair proportion of those tithe paying adults are married to each other, there's somewhere south of two million Mormon families. Less again if you want to roll to extended families.
"Most Mormons" is a pitifully microscopic demographic.
I might suggest to you that at least some or perhaps many of these are now attending Evangelical churches and have simply not bothered to formally "withdraw."
LittleNipper wrote:I might suggest to you that at least some or perhaps many of these are now attending Evangelical churches and have simply not bothered to formally "withdraw."
But your average Evangenital doesn't go to church either, Nipper.
A while back I asked this question to some of the Christians I worked with: Does Gozer the Gozerian show up in the Old or the New Testament?
All of them said the Old Testament.
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The Erotic Apologist wrote: A while back I asked this question to some of the Christians I worked with: Does Gozer the Gozerian show up in the Old or the New Testament?
All of them said the Old Testament.
I'm not sure it's fair, TEA, to practise intellectual Jiu Jitsu on the philosophically impaired.
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LittleNipper wrote:I might suggest to you that at least some or perhaps many of these are now attending Evangelical churches and have simply not bothered to formally "withdraw."
But your average Evangenital doesn't go to church either, Nipper.
It took me a whole minute to decode. Well calculated/malicious freudian slip...
Please misericordemisericordia for non-native-English readers! khm... A misericorde (/ˌmɪzərɪˈkɔrd/ or /-zɛrɪ-/) was a long, narrow knife, used in medieval times to deliver the death stroke (the mercy stroke, hence the name of the blade, derived from the Latin misericordia, "act of mercy") to a seriously wounded knight.
The Erotic Apologist wrote:A while back I asked this question to some of the Christians I worked with: Does Gozer the Gozerian show up in the Old or the New Testament?
If You could ask some scripture-expertsbible-readersMormons about Elijah/Isaiah/Jeremiah and Elias/Esaias/Jeremy, they would answer those are different persons. As did JS...
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
LittleNipper wrote:I might suggest to you that at least some or perhaps many of these are now attending Evangelical churches and have simply not bothered to formally "withdraw."
But your average Evangenital doesn't go to church either, Nipper.
A while back I asked this question to some of the Christians I worked with: Does Gozer the Gozerian show up in the Old or the New Testament?
All of them said the Old Testament. ]
Why don't you just say that the average person doesn't attend church anymore... Christians are hardly average in God's sight. They are in fact the seeds that fell onto the good soil. They were not the seeds eaten by birds or that fell among the rocks or were chocked by the weeds.
LittleNipper wrote:Why don't you just say that the average person doesn't attend church anymore... (?)
Because we're comparing the attendance rates of Mormons vs. Evangenitals.
LittleNipper wrote:Christians are hardly average in God's sight.
Here's what you're trying to say: The moral worth of a human being is ultimately determined by whether he or she is lucky enough to have been born in a Western European Judeo-Christian culture.
LittleNipper wrote:They are in fact the seeds that fell onto the good soil. They were not the seeds eaten by birds or that fell among the rocks or were chocked by the weeds.
See above.
Surprise, surprise, there is no divine mandate for the Church to discuss and portray its history accurately. --Yahoo Bot
I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess. And whether I shot first, I'll not confess. --Han Solo, from William Shakespeare's Star Wars
