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Yes. I got your point clearly the first time. I still get it. And I did distinguish between the percentages. In fact, that’s precisely what I said. I never defined it as exclusively male or female. Perhaps you didn’t read what I wrote. I understood your point and was trying to provide a perhaps mor...

Jersey Girl, According to the Church’s reports, in 1989, there were 39,739 “full-time missionaries.” In 2019, there were 67,021 “full-time missionaries,” an increase of 19% per decade. Is this an indication that the overall strength of the Church grew by 19% per decade over that time period? Not nec...

To make sure I understand, when you say "full-time missionaries" but exclude sisters, you mean "male full-time missionaries", right? I'm not referring to "male full-time missionaries." I'm referring to the statistic that the Church reports. I get the distinction with couples, being retired and olde...

Chap wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 16, 2021 7:21 am

Still, the money hasn't resigned, and never will! It's like the children of Israel died out or wandered off, but the Golden Calf still stood proudly on its pedestal, growing a little larger every day.

Exactly.

The last member standing gets a $100 billion bonus for turning off the lights.

The blog "Common Consent" tracked New Children Of Record as a percentage of total membership... Thanks for the information and reference! What makes those graphs misleading is why they are so interesting. We all know the denominator--the total nominal church membership--is a meaningless number. We ...

When people look at the church’s annual statistical report, they often look at total church size, number of missionaries, and number of convert baptisms. I’d like to suggest that the most insightful number on the statistical report is the number of new children of record : if you want to understand ...

There's plenty of reasonable doubt that Chauvin's knee did not kill Floyd. Fentanyl slows your breathing plenty which would explain why Floyd's breathing trouble started before he had to be restrained. George Floyd was already high even before he hooped his remaining stash. The autopsy report showe...

George Floyd was a worthless criminal and burden upon the taxpayer. The fact that this lifestyle he chose has helped to make his family obscenely rich to the tune of $27 million at the expense of the American worker is the real outrage of this entire thing. You raise an interesting point. Even if y...

That's all true, Res Ipsa. But the big irony in Ajax's last comment is that marxists define themselves as being in a class struggle with "those that fear the prospect of having to work for a living." The open question is which of the following two people is the bigger moocher off of the work of oth...

That's all true, Res Ipsa. But the big irony in Ajax's last comment is that marxists define themselves as being in a class struggle with "those that fear the prospect of having to work for a living." The open question is which of the following two people is the bigger moocher off of the work of othe...