Posted by:
Just Once
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Date: May 26, 2012 02:16PM
The Assoc. of Statisticians of American Religious Bodie's census, taken once every 10 years allowed TSCC to count every person who was ever baptised in TSCC (minus resignations and members who became polygamists), regardless of how long a person may have been inactive.
The problem with this approach is that what if all churches used this method for counting their member numbers. A person could have originally been baptised a Catholic as an infant, later been baptised Methodist and then a Mormon later in life.
Do all three denominations get to count that person as member in this census? TSCC, by using this slight of hand, has made this census a complete farce.
This little canard has enabled TSCC to mask how really bad things are, as far as actual member participation, currently is.
Fortunately though, it's a real "red flag" that all is not well in Zion.