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Muslim, Mormon growth spurts found (250% the muslims in the US now than on 9/11)
The Washington Times ^ | May 2, 2012 | Mark A. Kellner

Posted on 05/05/2012 2:32:39 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out

Mormonism and Islam are among the fastest growing religions in America, while just over half of all Americans are unaffiliated with any denomination, according to a major census of the country’s religious congregations published Wednesday.

The decennial census, released by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies in Chicago, found that the U.S. Muslim community had increased 160 percent from approximately 1 million in 2000 to 2.6 million in 2010.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: foreignfunded; immigration; islam; islamicimperialism; islaminamerica; mosqueandstate; muslims
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
that's cause we haven't played Cowboys and muslimes yet...
21 posted on 05/05/2012 5:40:08 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: greyfoxx39; Colofornian; Elsie; Godzilla; Tennessee Nana; chuck_the_tv_out; All; metmom; ...

How Did Mormons Grow So Fast? They Changed How They Counted

SALT LAKE CITY — If you suspected the newly released U.S. Religion Census overstated the Mormons’ growth rate, you were right. That’s because, this time around, the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints changed the way it reported its membership to the researchers.

..Its report pegged U.S. Mormon growth at 45.5 percent, jumping from 4.2 million in 2000 to 6.1 million in 2010. The 2000 figure, however, was much lower than the 5.2 million listed in the LDS church’s own almanac for that year. If researchers had been given that figure, the percentage of growth would have been considerably smaller, closer to 18 percent.

[Previously] ....the LDS church “left out numbers of members who, although baptized, were not currently associated with a specific congregation. This year, we included total membership numbers to more accurately reflect all of those found on church records.”

Dale Jones, a researcher on the Religion Census, said he wished the LDS church had alerted him about the change in its reporting methods....

The rest is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/how-did-mormons-grow-so-fast-they-changed-how-they-counted/2012/05/04/gIQAErNm1T_story.html

Some others do the same, but if Mormons counted the dead they baptized they could really cook the books! The first 5 FReepers pinged above can provide much info on the LDS.


22 posted on 05/05/2012 5:52:03 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a damned+morally destitute sinner,+trust Him to forgive+save you,+live....)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

The LDS church does not remove any name from the list unless the person is excommunicated, or asks to be removed or is dead. Thus a lot of Baptist, etc. could also be counted as Mormons. Unless there is a uniform means of counting members then such figures are highly suspect. It is known that Watchtower Society (so-called JW’s) have about as many that leave as come in.


23 posted on 05/05/2012 5:57:11 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a damned+morally destitute sinner,+trust Him to forgive+save you,+live....)
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To: Kriggerel
"There’s also another factor at play. There is a certain number of folks who have converted to Islam since 9-11 simply because they have seen the sheer level of fear and respect that Islam gets from politicians and the media, and how everyone walks on eggshells around them. To lonely, disaffected people, having that kind of aura of power around you is a very tempting drug"

Bingo.

24 posted on 05/05/2012 5:57:49 PM PDT by cookcounty ("Corpse -men For Obama!" (Chicago campaign slogan))
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To: donna
Thousands of former soldiers of the Iraqi army who defected were settled in the United States.

Why in tarnation would the U.S. Government do that?

25 posted on 05/05/2012 6:03:43 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Mormonism has only grown 20% in the last decade not 45%

they cooked their books 10 years ago and got found out

now its a matter of oh gollie gee look at that...


26 posted on 05/05/2012 6:05:23 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana (Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
From http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/maps/ardausmaps.asp

2007: Percent Identifying as Protestant (US Religious Landscape Survey )

Rank State ^ Value
1 Alabama 81.40
2 Mississippi 80.70
3 Arkansas 77.40
4 South Carolina 76.30
5 Tennessee 76.10
6 North Carolina 73.10
7 Oklahoma 71.10
8 Kentucky 69.70
9 West Virginia 69
10 Georgia 68.60
11 South Dakota 60.50
12 Missouri 59.30
13 Virginia 59.30
14 Indiana 58.40
15 Louisiana 58.10
16 Kansas 56.70
17 Texas 56.30
18 Ohio 54.50
19 North Dakota 54.50
20 Iowa 53.30
21 Minnesota 52.10
22 Michigan 51.40
23 Maryland 51.20
24 Nebraska 50.80
25 Pennsylvania 49.30
26 Wisconsin 47.50
27 Wyoming 47.20
28 Florida 47.20
29 Montana 46.60
30 Washington 45.20
31 Delaware 43.70
32 Oregon 43.50
33 Illinois 43.20
34 New Mexico 41.10
35 Maine 40.50
36 Colorado 40.30
37 Arizona 37.80
38 Idaho 36.70
39 California 33.30
40 Vermont 33.20
41 New Hampshire 31.50
42 New Jersey 30.40
43 New York 29.40
44 Massachusetts 27.80
45 Connecticut 26.10
46 Nevada 24.20
47 Rhode Island 22.20
48 Utah 11.50
49 Hawaii --
50 Alaska --

Evangelical Denominations--Total Adherents (2000)

Rank State ^ Value
1 Texas 5,083,087
2 California 2,433,216
3 Georgia 2,273,901
4 Florida 2,244,419
5 Tennessee 2,102,490
6 North Carolina 2,058,831
7 Alabama 1,804,961
8 Oklahoma 1,431,694
9 Missouri 1,384,605
10 Kentucky 1,361,067
11 Illinois 1,277,007
12 Virginia 1,211,065
13 South Carolina 1,179,544
14 Arkansas 1,153,527
15 Mississippi 1,130,113
16 Ohio 1,129,641
17 Michigan 1,072,132
18 Indiana 972,810
19 Louisiana 962,348
20 Pennsylvania 704,204
21 Wisconsin 679,029
22 Washington 579,320
23 New York 559,060
24 Minnesota 548,089
25 Arizona 486,247
26 Colorado 457,234
27 Kansas 419,798
28 Maryland 409,460
29 Oregon 388,999
30 Iowa 342,354
31 Nebraska 250,151
32 New Mexico 237,767
33 New Jersey 203,097
34 West Virginia 200,083
35 Massachusetts 150,505
36 Idaho 115,857
37 Nevada 107,681
38 South Dakota 104,264
39 Montana 100,669
40 Hawaii 98,554
41 Connecticut 81,946
42 Alaska 78,070
43 North Dakota 62,506
44 Wyoming 56,063
45 Utah 42,420
46 Maine 42,391
47 Delaware 40,408
48 New Hampshire 30,131
49 Rhode Island 16,974
50 Vermont 14,759
 

2007: Percent Identifying as Catholic (US Religious Landscape Survey )

Rank State ^ Value
1 Rhode Island 44.30
2 Massachusetts 43.30
3 Connecticut 43.10
4 New Jersey 42.30
5 New York 38.90
6 Illinois 32.20
7 North Dakota 32.20
8 California 30.70
9 Nebraska 30.50
10 Maine 29.40
11 New Hampshire 29.10
12 Pennsylvania 29.10
13 Wisconsin 28.80
14 Louisiana 28.40
15 Vermont 28.10
16 Minnesota 27.60
17 Nevada 27
18 Delaware 26.90
19 Florida 26.50
20 New Mexico 25.90
21 Iowa 25.20
22 Arizona 24.60
23 Texas 24.10
24 Kansas 23.30
25 Michigan 23.20
26 Wyoming 23.10
27 Montana 22.90
28 Ohio 20.90
29 South Dakota 19.70
30 Colorado 19.50
31 Maryland 18.70
32 Indiana 18
33 Idaho 17.60
34 Missouri 17.50
35 Washington 16.20
36 Oregon 14.20
37 Virginia 14.20
38 Kentucky 13.90
39 Oklahoma 11.80
40 Georgia 11.50
41 Utah 9.90
42 North Carolina 9.20
43 Mississippi 8.90
44 South Carolina 7.60
45 West Virginia 6.80
46 Tennessee 6.60
47 Alabama 6.20
48 Arkansas 5.10
49 Hawaii --
50 Alaska --

More stats: STATISTICS COMPARING CATHOLICS + EVANGELICALS

STATISTICAL CORRELATIONS chart (comparing many aspects of 50 states)


27 posted on 05/05/2012 6:07:42 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a damned+morally destitute sinner,+trust Him to forgive+save you,+live....)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

“...comes Islam will be wiped out.””

Hey, let’s prepare the way!


28 posted on 05/05/2012 6:10:48 PM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: Let's Roll

When religions promise godhood and lots of sex, the growth in membership is a no-brainer!


29 posted on 05/05/2012 6:14:03 PM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
The wholesale importation of an enemy into our homeland is insane and beyond comprehension.

That it happened after 9-11 is even more mind-numbing

Unfortunately in the wake of the massive Muslim terrorist attack we had the bad luck of having two successive open-borders zealots in the White House.

One, Bush Jr., was a zealot because he's just isn't too bright and thinks it's “compassionate” to open our homeland to uncontrolled 3rd-world population transfers.

The other, Hussein, is a zealot because he's bright enough to know that such immigration is one sure way of permanently destroying that which he hates: The United States of America.

30 posted on 05/05/2012 6:17:51 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (If I had a failed one-term President, he'd look like Obama.)
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To: dragnet2

Well, President Bush said Islam is the religion of peace.


31 posted on 05/05/2012 7:52:20 PM PDT by donna (Mitt? NEVER!)
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To: Dagnabitt

Your first two lines are right on the mark!


32 posted on 05/05/2012 11:35:05 PM PDT by karnage
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To: daniel1212

Are you the owner of that stats site? I spent quite some time looking at that material


33 posted on 05/07/2012 4:55:46 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
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