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Originally Posted by ktfords
["Surely you don't believe that 13 million people are put into this one tiny category...?
To me that's like saying "all blonde women are stupid."]
Try reading this 2006 Salt lake Tribune article on the LDS church membership. Please read all of it.
Keeping members a challenge for LDS church - Salt Lake Tribune |
Yes, and may I remind all that most Christian religions are losing membership in many areas of the world, especially in the USA and Europe. Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran cathedrals in Europe have few attend their masses anymore.
So, what does it mean? Just because people fall away from a church or join a church does not make that church approved of God. There have been people leave God in droves in the past, including Noah. Does that make Noah a false prophet, simply because the world rejected him? How about Jesus, who had many leave him at the end of his ministry?
do we really want to judge a religion by who is in the pews and who isn't?