1733: Mormon Bishop Speaks Out About Misleading Church Statistics
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 199 minutes
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Summary
For the first time ever, a sitting Mormon Bishop joins us to discuss the current situation with the Church's activity rates and its misleading membership statistics. Get ready for an insightful episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John Delin. It is February 23rd |
| 0:07.3 | 2023 and we are one day after what I think was a really epic Mormon Stories podcast interview on |
| 0:14.0 | the United States SEC or security and exchange commission |
| 0:19.2 | releasing a |
| 0:21.2 | Order or a statement in conjunction with the LDS Church or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
| 0:26.2 | where the Mormon Church settled to pay five million dollars in |
| 0:30.8 | conjunction with Ensign Peak |
| 0:32.8 | advisors, which is one of the Mormon Church's |
| 0:35.7 | investment arms where they basically admit to fraud and deception for several decades |
| 0:43.0 | led by the LDS Church First Presidency. It was not planned, but I guess in some ways, |
| 0:49.3 | it's not a surprise that |
| 0:51.3 | the episode that we bumped from yesterday to today to make room for yesterday's |
| 0:56.0 | episode also has to do with deception within the Mormon Church. |
| 1:01.3 | This episode could have lots of names, |
| 1:04.2 | but it's something to do with a current active Mormon bishop in Mexico |
| 1:10.4 | speaking out about the Mormon Church using misleading |
| 1:16.1 | statistics for the Church |
| 1:19.0 | specifically within the area of Mexico, but we're also going to be talking a little bit more about South America and at least Brazil |
| 1:25.4 | and I know Chile at a minimum and probably the Philippines all |
| 1:29.1 | apply here, but the point is |
| 1:31.1 | we've talked about the Church and its deception with child abuse, |
| 1:34.9 | hiding child abuse. We've talked about it with the Boy Scouts of America. |
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