When I was a kid, the security apparatus hated that I liked learning and realized the absurdity and bigotry of adults around me. They particularly despised any form of intellectualism. Let's see how the bigoted LDS church is doing:
- Europe: Decreasing in all of Europe. The church has probably been decline in Scandinavia for 60 years now. It never took off at all in Eastern Europe despite countless predictions from "prophets, seers, and revelators" in the '70s and '80s that people behind the Iron Curtain were desperately waiting for access to "the one true church" (yeah, educated people escaping totalitarian regimes desperately long to be controlled by a Utah-based authoritarian cult). In the last four years, the church has closed four stakes in England and six districts in Russia.
- East Asia: Decreasing in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. In the last four years, the church has closed six stakes and three districts in Japan and two stakes in Hong Kong.
- Oceania: Decreasing in Australia and New Zealand. ExMo Jacinda Arden received global praise for her actions as New Zealand's prime minister but had nothing to do with the LDS church as an adult because of their deplorable policies. The church has closed two stakes and three districts in Australia and a stake in New Zealand.
- North America. Decreasing in Canada and the US West Coast. The church has closed seven stakes in California, two in Washington state, and one in Oregon in the last four years.
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