by slimboyfat 36 Replies latest jw friends
Interesting article. I've often thought empirically Mormons have an even harder sell than JWs. The Watchtower merely falsifies the date of the fall of Jerusalem. The Mormon church rewrites the whole history of the Americas. Fred Franz's Bible can be criticised on a number of points. Joseph Smith on the other hand wrote his own Bible and claimed an angel gave it to him.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/31/us-mormonchurch-idUSTRE80T1CM20120131
Do people in suburban neighborhoods see Mormon missionaries 'out in service' or whatever they call it. Seems 20-30 years ago there were more but I lived in a city at that time.
well apparently it was that long ago blacks were accepted but not good enuff to advance in their clergy. the fraud and stupid deception that created the book of abraham is a joke. smith was able to tramnslate single glyphs into pages and pages of text, just extraordinary.
Mormons are important proof that mythology can be accepted as a religion by millions in a very short time.
Christianity is just an early example.
The people of the eastern shores of the Mediterranean came up with the whole Jewish myth while they languished in Babylon.
The internet is just a small beach head in the battle for truth. Most people go on the internet to shore up their preferred orientation.
This article is really worth reading. It parallels what has been included in the letter that is supposed to be read after the Special April Talk.
I especially found this interesting:
"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.
Then he outlined how the church was using the technologies that had loosened its grip on the flock to reverse this trend.
"The church has a very progressive research and information division, with tremendous public opinion surveyors," he said. Among other steps, it has hired an expert in search-engine optimization to raise the profile of the church's own views in a web search.
Great read. Nice to hear how small the LDS numbers actually are. The JWs are closer to them than I thought.
The LDS church will not survive the internet - I predict it will be no more than a couple of million strong within 20 years. Information is killing it and the majority of new members I've seen are societies vulnerables (single mothers, less well educated etc.) The local church where I used to attend still has the odd baptism every year but it loses a strong established member / member family every year as well.
Religion in general had it pretty good for quite a few millennia; information was not always free, private or easy to obtain.
That's not the case anymore.
UH-OH!
I think it's safe to assume there are more JWs worldwide than Mormons by any reasonably comparative measure.
They claim to have 14 million members but that includes practically everyone who has ever been baptised and is now inactive. If activity rates are near to 25% as some reckon that makes less than 4 million active members, which is not much more than half the number of active JWs.
