If they really only have the same number of members that Jehovah's Witnesses do, then why are there at least 75 titles at a small city library on Mormons and LDS but only 4 titles about JWs? Because there are really around about 100 million Mormon lovers in the USA, that's why!
2006-10-19 13:02:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
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2006-10-20 05:36:46 · update #1
well o.k., but I'm not intereted in this type of info. Maybe you should post it in the religious section.
2006-10-19 13:13:44 · answer #1 · answered by Lipstick 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are millions of Mormons in the United States and around the world, and not all "Mormons" are members of the LDS religion. However, it seems almost certain that the "100 million" figure mentioned in this question is inaccurate.
According to the independent website "Adherents.com", here are the figures for the top-ten international religious bodies as of 1999:
Religious BodyNumber of Adherents
Catholic Church 1,100,000,000
Sunni Islam 875,000,000
Eastern Orthodox Church 225,000,000
Anglican Communion* 77,000,000
Assemblies of God 50,000,000
Seventh-day Adventists 16,811,519
Jehovah's Witnesses 15,597,746
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 12,275,822
New Apostolic Church 10,260,000
Ahmadiyya 10,000,000
Bahai World Faith 6,000,000
Regarding Jehovah's Witnesses, here is an interesting quote from that website:
"Worldwide, the number of practicing Jehovah's Witnesses may actually be higher than the number of practicing Anglicans."
http://www.adherents.com/adh_rb.html#International
Learn more:
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
http://watchtower.org/statistics/worldwide_report.htm
2006-10-19 20:18:37 · answer #2 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Mormon church does not try to inflate numbers. However, the church is careful about removing names from the records. The church feels a huge responsibility to care for and look after the temporal and spiritual needs of its members. Leaving the church is a big deal and just as missionaries feel for the spiritual welfare of the people they are teaching, so the church does what it can to keep its members. We are taught that we must endure in faith till the end rather than being saved by a flash in the pan acceptance of the gospel. The church does not include baptisms for the dead in it's membership numbers. If these people were included, the membership would probably be in the hundreds of millions.
2016-03-28 01:57:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are over 12 million members of the LDS church world wide. That's not made up.There are a lot more memebers of the LDS church then the Jehova's Witnesses. The LDS church is the 4th largest church in the US, according to a census conducted in 2005..
2006-10-19 13:28:43 · answer #4 · answered by Melissa 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It's hardly an LGBT question is it?
I think that the Mormons are just trying to pack as many Mormons into heaven as possible, so the next time the elections for G'd come around they'll get a Mormon on the ticket.
Maybe all of us gays and whatever should turn mormon so we can get a gay as G'd for the next celestial term.
2006-10-19 13:26:45 · answer #5 · answered by Augusta B 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think you posted this on the wrong thread. You want to try the Religion thread for this. By the way, what have you got against Mormons? They're nice, hard working folk.
2006-10-19 18:27:02 · answer #6 · answered by puhpaul 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't understand your question.. what are you saying....... Mormons (C.J.C.L.D.S) shouldn't write books........
I thought USA was a free country...........hahahahaha..
2006-10-19 13:55:21 · answer #7 · answered by Chrisey 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋