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Latter-day Saints

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Latter-day Saints

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Latter-day Saints is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 21, 2021 and August 12, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “says Latin Americans see the Latter-day Saints as pure”; “That model was certainly true of the early church, but the real innovation of modern Mormonism… A common experience for Latter-day Saints traveling abroad”. It most often appears alongside Mormons, Orthodox Judaism, United States.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: April 21, 2021
  • Last seen: August 12, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

No, Really, Why Are So Many Christians In Colombia Converting To Orthodox Judaism?
April 21, 2021 · Original source
Sociologist Cesar Ceriani, who recently published a book on Mormon missionary work in Argentina, says Latin Americans see the Latter-day Saints as pure, reliable and economically powerful in a region often plagued by instability and corruption.
And if we’re going to include Judaism and Eastern Orthodoxy, we might as well talk about the five million Mormons in Latin America, or the thing where almost a fifth of Latin Americans have converted to Protestantism in the past fifty years.
Inline links: the five million Mormons in Latin America, almost a fifth of Latin Americans have converted to Protestantism in the past fifty years
Another answer, from the article on Mormons:
Highlights From The Comments On Liberalism And Communities
August 12, 2025 · Original source
The example of the Mormons is a good one, but in more ways than “get lots of people of the same religion together in one place”. That model was certainly true of the early church, but the real innovation of modern Mormonism is exporting the same community-building model to all four corners of the earth. A common experience for Latter-day Saints traveling abroad is to be struck by how nearly identical the Sunday experience is whether in Africa, America, or Asia. The upshot of the Church’s system of social organization is that it is effortless for a Latter-day Saint person to slot into a new community wherever they go, and it is likewise easy for the community to sustain itself as individuals naturally come and go while they pursue their secular lives and careers. That kind of physical location independence goes a long way towards solving the practical problems highlighted in the post.
Groups like the Amish (and Hasidic Jews, etc.) achieve community by raising the costs of leaving so high that most members aren't willing to bear them. Some do, and the stories are often quite sad (https://www.amazon.com/All-Who-Go-Not-Return/dp/1555977057/). Even less insular communities, like the Mormons, do something like this (although mainstream Mormons could be regarded as striking a fairly successful balance).
Inline links: https://www.amazon.com/All-Who-Go-Not-Return/dp/1555977057/
Maybe the Mormons are the entrepreneurs we’re looking for?