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Old 06-10-2008, 11:48 PM
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Well, the first was not to be taken literally (I have a penchant for hyperbole) but it can hardly be ignored that baptisms per missionary has dropped dramatically since the internet. Just a basic fact check in the Church Almanacs should prove this point. I thought it was common knowledge.
Yeah, THAT is common knowledge, at least in my crowd. But that's not what you claimed, originally, is it? ...and I might add that the subjective term "dramatically" will vary widely, depending on whom you are speaking to.

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The Mormon process conversion requires a missionary to control the enivironment so that no negative information can be known to the "investigator."
Bologna. What a stupid thing to say.

As to the rest of your post, you are confirming what *I* said. It's essentially limited to central & south America, and the Church has been addressing the problem there for some time.

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