Re: [TruthTalk] LDS Church has ZERO Growth!

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Blainer:  You can prove anything you want with statistics. During the year 2004, 3 new Mormon temples were dedicated, 2 re-dedicated, 0 were taken down, 119 in operation at end of year, with ten more in various stages of planning or building.  Converts baptized were 241, 239.  Total membership as of December 31, 2004, 12, 275,822, up about 3 million from 1998.  New stake buildings,  new ward buildings always being built, re-built etc, none taken down or destroyed that I am aware of.  All church meeting houses  are crowded, some with three wards using alternate time schedules, most with at least two wards doubling up.  Sounds like progress to me.    In a message dated 7/26/2005 10:48:48 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Keeping members a challenge for LDS church Mormon myth: The belief that the church is the fastest-growing faith in the world doesn't hold up http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2890645 When the Graduate Center of the City University of New York conducted an American Religious Identification Survey in 2001, it discovered that about the same number of people said they had joined the LDS Church as said they had left it. The CUNY survey reported the church's net growth was zero percent.