These facts were published by the Ford Motor Co. for their employees:
* LDS are 70 percent of Utah, 30 percent of Idaho; after Catholics, LDS are the largest sect in 10 states.
* The church has 5.5 million members in the U.S., making it the fourth largest individual U.S. denomination.
* Some memberships: New Zealand 95k, Japan 115k, UK 175k, Philippines 500k, Brazil 900k, Mexico 925k.
* For the last 15 years, every day an average of 800+ people worldwide joined the LDS church.
* Half of the growth is in Latin America, but the rate of growth is highest in Africa and the former Soviet bloc.
* Worldwide membership just passed 13 million, a tenfold increase in 50 years.
* In 1984 a non-LDS professor estimated 265 million members by 2080; so far growth has been faster.
* Over 200 million pounds of food, clothing, and medicine were donated by the church in the last 20 years in 147 countries.
* LDS have sponsored Boy Scout troops since 1913; 23 percent of all Scout troops are LDS.
For more information on the LDS churches humanitarian and charity services, please visit this link: http://lds.org/newsroom/page/0,15606,4035-1---7-168,00.html
Might does not make right. Joseph Smith and all the other hoax's still doesn't make it right. If this was a Rotary club it would be excellent, but as a religious organization that should lead one to God. It fails completely.
There is nothing positive about Mormonism, When it totally and blatantly
Misrepresent the truth of who Jesus Christ is. Besides that if you believe that you can be A god when you die well you are totally brainwashed and Lost!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, they are pretty neutral facts to me too...the donations are great of course, other Churches do that as well... I know a lot of Mormons, and they are very nice people. Tight knit and strong family bonds. But there are some weird things about their religion that I don't find very positive. Things that go directly against the Word of God... there are some things that are NOT so positive too...
I did not know those facts exactly, but they are not too surprising to me. My question is did you know the following about the Mormons:
You are allowed multiple wives, for the primary purpose of having children. As you work through life you must be a high achiever, there is very little room for failure because you are not just living for success here in this world, for if you do well, when you pass away from this world you inherit a new world of your own, your own planet that you become god of, and the children you bare here on earth are to populate your new world. If you fail here in this life though, you become the slave of another successful person on their new planet.
That's a pretty wild imagination huh? and no, I did not make this up.
Too many figures. Even if I didn't I seriously do not have the patience to read them. What difference does make anyways? Not smoking, not drinking, not lying are considered good habits by almost everyone but how many followers of all these 3 things can you find in the world??