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Do you have a source for any of those claims? Higher divorce rate or rate of violence?
by ngngngng 3y ago
Do you have a source for any of those claims? Higher divorce rate or rate of violence?
- Prickle 3y ago[flagged]
- Prickle 3y agoActually, a separate comment reminded me about excommunication statistics within the LDS. Divorced members of my local LDS church usually left the church soon after. So you would likely end up with some level of bias based on whether the questions asked of past religious affiliation. (ie: does it sufficiently include former members) For example, Pew Research's questions do not ask about past affiliation. https://web.archive.org/web/20220128113620/https://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20220128113620/https://www.relig... Here is a very old article based on data from 1999 which shows the LDS' divorce statistics are not very different from other Christian denominations. It includes a list of citations at the bottom of the page. Hopefully this a bit more constructive than the previous thread.