Comments on: What I Found Interesting and Unusual in the Pew Report

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:23:15 +0000

I think Mormonism is more strict with the way Mormons live their lives than what they believe. I have found that as long as I make it clear I am only representing my personal opinion and not the opinion of the Mormon church, I can almost believe anything. When I start to do things that are against the church that is where they are more strict or narrow.

By: Kent Larsen

Kent Larsen — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:36:12 +0000

DR Daines (44), the point isn’t what you believe, its what the survey showed that Mormons in general believed, vs. the official Church position on the issue (which is that no doctrine indicates how God created man, whether by evolution or otherwise)

By: DR Daines

DR Daines — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:04:59 +0000

As for Evolution –
I believe that the there is defiantly a type of evolution that happens but not as science says the man came from the primordial-goo.
God placed Adam & Eva upon the earth & commanded them to pro-create – which they did and they produced a delightful offspring. Their offspring then cover the pre-flood land, we know the story of Cain & Able and their children/offspring.
The wicked evolved into a somewhat hideous or non-delightsome people [just like the offspring of Lamen & Lemuel in the BofM] or I believe as into the Cave-men & etc. As time went by some of them again found God and they and their offspring evolved [as moved upon by the Holy Ghost] into a delightsome person/people.
When we lose a belief in God we also lose the blessing of the Holy Ghost and we evolve/evolution into a dark-spirited person.

By: Harold Curts

Harold Curts — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:36:54 +0000

US Census Bureau numbers put the population of the US at
304,059,724.
With the Pew numbers at 1.7% that puts the US self described Mormon population at 5,169,015 million.

The current church numbers for the US says 5,974,041
http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/statistical-information

Even accounting for some definitional differences, and other “mormon” groups, it is simply shocking to me that such a high percent of Mormons would self identify to Pew.

Do a high percent of “in-active” members still identify as Mormon? If so they how do so many of the activity numbers, church attendance, prayer, bible, missionary work etc come out so high?

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By: Mike Parker

Mike Parker — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:09:30 +0000

Most Mormons don’t believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible. 57% don’t, versus 35% who do believe in a literal interpretation.

This is an interesting result that I would like to see explored. Considering that the standard Mormon belief is that the first man walked out the Garden of Eden circa 4,000 BC, that there was a global flood, and that there was a single language on the earth until the tower of Babel, one would think that would put most Mormons in the “literalist” camp.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:30:52 +0000

“The unmarried are less faithful among Mormons. Those who are not married are less likely to say they attend Church weekly, pray regularly and less likely to believe that religion is important.”

Having been in the +30 Single Adult world the last 17 years, I know that many valiant souls endure and continue, regardless of marital status. ON THE OTHER HAND, there are over a hundred singles that show up on my ward list but never show up at the church building. At the single adult dances, everyone has “their story,” sometimes disturbing ones that make you want to run!

Welcome to the Island of Misfit toys!

By: Kent Larsen

Kent Larsen — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:48:37 +0000

John Taber (37), I’m also like you. My parents were born in Utah, but I grew up in Maryland. I wasn’t including those in our category as “transplants from the Intermountain West.” I mean only those who moved out of the Intermountain West as adults.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t have much of a reason to adopt the conservatism that I see in the Intermountain West.

Regardless, the Pew report says that Mormons outside of the West are less Republican and less conservative. Whether removing the transplants makes a difference or not, we would have to see from the numbers or from another survey.

By: John Taber

John Taber — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:48:26 +0000

“Out of all the families in my ward (and the few I know in the stake) I am aware of only one homeschooling family in the neighboring ward. Out of the Mormons I know accross the country I do know a few homeschoolers.”

Then you aren’t living where I’ve lived. I’ve been in at least one ward where the homeschoolers ran elders’ quorum.

By: John Taber

John Taber — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:32:44 +0000

“I suspect that if you removed those who are transplants from the Intermountain West, the political profile of Mormons outside of the Mormon corridor would look similar to the rest of the country, or perhaps only slightly more conservative.”

I don’t agree. I think the conservative tone at meetings tends to attract like-minded people, and so this has been somewhat self-perpetuating, especially in suburban wards. Also, it’s harder to winnow out “those from the Intermountain West”, as there are plenty of us (myself included) who had a parent or grandparent born there but never actually lived there, besides maybe for college.