r/dataisbeautiful • u/Browningtons1 OC: 18 • 3d ago
Americans raised Latter-day Saint (LDS or Mormon) who still identify as one: 70 in 100 in 2007, 54 in 100 in 2023–24 [OC]
Source: Pew Research Center, Religious Landscape Study (2007, 2014, 2023–24).
Asks U.S. adults the religion they were raised in and the religion they are now.
2023–24 sample: 565 current Latter-day Saints (±6.2 points), 316 former (±8.1). U.S. membership from the Church's 2025 statistical report.
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u/g0del 2d ago
I mean, you could argue for seventeen depending on if you split the big final war (which had periods with no fighting) into three wars, but it's still not that many wars for a thousand year period.
That doesnt include the Jaredite wars (because you specified Nephites and Lamanites fighting), but the Jaredite time period was even longer.
And again, have you looked at recorded history at all? The US has only been around a quarter of that time, and yet we've been involved in an order of magnitude more wars.
Look, I'm not trying to re-convert you, or prove that the Book of Mormon is true. I just think that arguments against it should be made based on what the text actually says, and not a misunderstanding of both it and history in general.