If there are at least 150 people a day who send in their mormon resignations,?

Question

wouldn't you say there are probably some serious problems with the church?

In another question I asked, a user mormon_4_jesus gave the number of 150 people that resign daily.
That's only the ones that officially send in their resignations.

Here's a site that will guide you to resignation...

http://www.exmormon.org/remove.htm

According to L.D.S inc. there are just over 13 million member.

MORMON_4_JESUS
With the numbers you provide, I calculate
37,500 resignations a year.
But, the people that actually send in a resignation letter is a minority of the people leaving.

I guess mormons aren't very good at math.

Also, there were only 272,845 converts in 2006. 243,108 in 2005. 241,239 in 2004.
http://lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb69095bd3e44916a0/?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=ce0eb5658af22110VgnVCM100000176f620a____&hideNav=1
your numbers are off, dude.

Also, you have to factor in how many of those converts stay active. The average is around 25% tops. So you're probably looking more realistically at 65,000 converts a year.

Answer 1

hell yeah...the leaders are just very good at concealing the church's issues that would lead to even MORE people leaving.

PS i think there's more than that...and those are the lucky ones.

Answer 2

I married a man whose family was Mormon. I joined just to become part of his family...to fit it. Wrong reason, but I did it. I was ex-ommunicated because I went back to my former church (Baptist).

Then, in college, I got on an anti-Mormon kick and read everything I could, written by other people who had left or been ex-communicated. I found out SO much stuff. I would never go back.

All I remember listening to on Sundays was whom the church wanted its members to vote for, how big the church was worldwide, how many members and how much money the church claimed to have. We never even opened the Holy Bible.

I had noticed that there were NO black people in our congregation (about 2,000 people in our ward). I wondered why. Then, after a short time, the church elders had a "Divine Revelation" to invite African Americans into the church. I learned that the church had been under fire from various civil rights organizations because of this.

There was a woman (Mormon) from West Virginia, I believe, who took an interest in politics and wanted to run for state senator. She was ex-communicated for this (because women shouldn't work or hold political office according to the church). Mind you, this was back in the late 70s to early 80s. I don't remember this lady's name. Things may have changed since then, but, at the time, it was enough for me to not want to be a part of this church!

There is so much more I learned, even information from the 1800s when the church was just starting out. I remember reading a book about car bombings in Salt Lake City involving the Mormon Church, but I cannot recall the name of the book.

Yeah, there are many problems with the church. Because it is sort of a "secret society," there is a lot that no-one except insiders know. I am just happy that I am no longer part of this church.

Side note: When I was ex-communicated, some elders from the church showed up at my house with a "summons to court" for the ex-communication process. I thought it was rather humorous. I did not attend. I thought it was so foolish!

Answer 3

I just found out why you are asking these lame questions! You can leave the church, but you can't leave the church alone!!

So there are people who leave the church! So what?? Have you done the math on how many people leave other religions on a daily basis? Or how many members are added to our church on a daily/monthly/yearly basis? Probably not, since that would refute all you have listed.

We give everyone the right to worship as they see fit, and if they find the church isn't right for them, then that's ok. I've had members of my family not want to be part of the church anymore. We haven't kicked them out of the family, or been mean to them because of it. It's their choice. Yes, we wish they wouldn't have left, but it's their lives.

As far as problems in the church: The church is perfect, the members aren't. I'm sure every person in every church would say the same about their church.

How about asking these questions to them? See what they say! You are trolling and I really hope that someone reports you for your closed-minded, bigoted questions!!

Oh.. forgot to add that you don't have to send a letter to anyone, all you have to do is quit going to church, or tell your bishop that you want to be taken off the records, then they fill out paper work and send that in. All you have to do is sign them!!

Answer 4

Al-Shaitan, as you stumble through the varied responses to your ill-intent question, read again the answer given by Miranda. She has you pin-pointed just like all the others that have left the Church, but will not leave the Church, nor its membership, alone.

It is typical of such posters as BLM, who can spit out venemous or castigating barbs at the Church, but cannot recall exactly what they are referencing. All they know are things they've glossed over or heard from someone else and cannot be specific in their accusations. When the light of the Gospel is taken away, so are the minds of those persons so willing to spew hatred at the Church and to those that believe its principles.

Answer 5

WOW, 150 people a day. Please tell me know many millions of Mormons are there? How many are being Baptized yearly? Is the Church growing, or dying?

I'm not a Mormon, but I think non-thinking, idiotic comments by ignorant bigots as yourself create more problems in Christ's Church than any good they might do. Yep, I just judged you, I know. I doed it, and I glad I doed it.


ADDITIONAL: the guesses as to who is and isn't active, and most of the figures you've guessed at mean absolutely nothing at all!!! The point of your question is that there's something wrong in Mormonville...you aren't making any case for that with these phony statistics! Some up with some fact based stuff.

Answer 6

First, I think it's that they process about 150 a day. I figure there are approx. 250 working days, so that's about 2500 requests a year.

No, I don't think there are serious problems. There are about 300,000 converts every year. And since baptisms happen any day, that means well over 800 converts a day.

Answer 7

Curious, where do you get your numbers? How does all the other factions of Christianity stack up? Hindus and Buddhists? Atheists?

Answer 8

You actually have to resign in writing?

Answer 9

Hmmm the number is too high

Answer 10

you can do that? how do I get the paperwork?