Mormon
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Mormon is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between April 21, 2021 and May 29, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “article on Mormons”; “Mormon and Utah readers, do you know what’s going on here?”; “why did Mormon fertility drop”. It most often appears alongside Anthropic, Israel, Jesus.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: April 21, 2021
- Last seen: May 29, 2024
Appears In
- No, Really, Why Are So Many Christians In Colombia Converting To Orthodox Judaism?
- Links For December
- Links For August 2023
- Links for May 2024
Related Pages
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- Anthropic (3 shared issues)
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- Israel (3 shared issues)
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- Jesus (3 shared issues)
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- US (3 shared issues)
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- Britain (2 shared issues)
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- ChatGPT (2 shared issues)
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- EA Forum (2 shared issues)
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- FDA (2 shared issues)
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- Google (2 shared issues)
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- India (2 shared issues)
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- Latin America (2 shared issues)
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- Nate Silver (2 shared issues)
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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.
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
Still, Orthodox Judaism? The articles linked above talk about why Mormonism and Pentecostalism are winning converts in Latin America. Both put lots of effort into missionary work (Judaism actively discourages conversion). Pentecostalism in particular is hip and willing to adapt itself to Latin American culture in a way that Catholicism isn’t - “The music that you hear in Pentecostal churches has the same rhythms that people enjoy outside of church” (Orthodox Judaism is about the least-hip and least Latin-American-culture-compatible religion imaginable). The number one reason cited by new Latin American converts to Protestantism is that they are “seeking a personal connection with God” (Orthodox Judaism almost aggressively avoids providing this). And converting to Orthodoxy is not a small step:
Another answer, from the article on Mormons:
26: eternalanglo.com/mormon-fertili… ","username":"leopoldasch","name":"Leopold Aschenbrenner","profile_image_url":"","date":"Mon Dec 13 17:09:58 +0000 2021","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/FGgOLkkUUAAssnM.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/sOtRjPKL7u","alt_text":null}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":0,"retweet_count":149,"like_count":925,"impression_count":0,"expanded_url":{},"video_url":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"> Mormon and Utah readers, do you know what’s going on here? Please only give answers that explain why this has happened in the past 10-15 years specifically, not vague “rise of secularism” or whatever.
Mormon and Utah readers, do you know what’s going on here? Please only give answers that explain why this has happened in the past 10-15 years specifically, not vague “rise of secularism” or whatever.
37: Same author: why did Mormon fertility drop? Argues it’s because Trump’s brand of profane hillbilly Republicanism alienated the Mormons, and their negative reaction drove them “[too] close to the vortex of the progressive-liberal-urban monoculture” to defend against their memes. I’m not sure their graph really supports this - there’s only a slight escalation in a pre-existing trend in 2016 - but it’s an interesting way of thinking about the world.
Inline links: why did Mormon fertility drop?
9: In Matthew 22, the Sadducees (a sect of anti-afterlife Jews) gave Jesus a puzzle. If a woman’s husband dies and she remarries, then who will she be married to after the Resurrection - the first husband or the second? Jesus responded by saying that people will not be married in Heaven (though see also the Mormon interpretion). Anyway, I was interested to learn there’s now an atheist version of this conundrum. Robert Ettinger, considered “the founder of cryonics”, had his body frozen after his death in hopes of being resurrected in the far future. His first wife died, he remarried, and both his first and second wives are also cryopreserved. There’s no evidence Ettinger was anything other than monogamous during life, so what happens in the far future? His second wife was an “author, feminist, and marriage counselor”, so I bet she’ll have strong opinions on this.
Inline links: the Mormon interpretion, Robert Ettinger