A mormon fan

[adrianbye]

Not so sure about that. There is a very loud and vocal ex-Catholic "community" and has been for a while. I understand their anger about the child abuse issue, which has been really badly dealt with the organisation... however, there are a lot of them, you can see the influence of these people in Hollywood and numerous novels. One of their great successes has been in secularising most of Ireland in a generation or two.

With Protestantism, the split is between state/mainstream churches & the smaller more fundamentalist ones. Our state Church of Scotland is useless at hanging onto the young, it will die out in a generation or two. There are good people in it, but also a lot of wooly thinkers and people who just use it as a political front.

The exmo people... I don't know what to make of them. Contrary to what they say, and some church members think, in my experience most people just leave the LDS and leave alone. The stats themselves back this up... we know most baptised members become inactive and their numbers will be in the millions, way higher than a few angry people on some board somewhere. I also notice divisions in the "active" exmo community - some push atheism although others aren't interested, and from what I saw on their forums last time I looked there is a definite right-left split. The "right wingers" take in most of the spectrum, probably over to left of centre in normal terms, while the left wing element is ultra-left, not always consciously Communist but certainly Cultural Marxist.

One thing the bulk of exmos, LDS leadership, Catholic leadership and ex-RCs, and mainline Protestants all share in common is supporting this mass vaccination programme!

Here's an example from reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/
208,741 readers
Active USA Membership: 6,721,032
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Churc ... statistics

https://www.reddit.com/r/excatholic/
25,558 readers
"There were 70,412,021 registered Catholics in the United States (22% of the US population) in 2017"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_ ... ted_States

From our wildly imprecise measurements in the USA:
- for every 32 active mormons, there is one exmormon on reddit
- for every 2754 active catholics, there is one excatholic on reddit.

Interesting comment on vaccinations, I'm sure you're right. I imagine they all are concerned about climate change too. lol

[BeNotDeceived]

Hi! I’d love to hear your perspective of what is going on and how we play into it. I was on telegram for awhile and there is so much talk on the last days and how it’s going to play out. I love the spirit of revival going on! I’m trying to mesh what’s going on now and what is revealed for the latter-days...I’m impressed you are willing to look at it from this angle as well...most people I bring it up to automatically stamp is as a “cult” and won’t look any deeper.

Mostly, the cult stuff drops by the wayside, once you accept things went south, soon after the meeting at Morley’s Farm. Sidney Rigdon likely was Joseph’s legitimate successor. That’s me latest understanding anyway, having just read a new book by Taylor Drake.

Goose, but not gander. dbnp