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Published · transcript-backedGarett Jones: belief
26 Feb 2020 Conversations with Tyler Garett Jones on Democracy (More or Less)
“I think also a version of it is just the general difficulties that non-college-educated white men have had across the US, that Mormons are having their own personal version of that.”
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- Garett Jones
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- belief
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- 26 Feb 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Why have those returns fallen? It does appear, partly, that men are drawn more into the appeals of secular life. Partly, it’s that, on Google, they’re learning about the history of the church, and they’re learning things they weren’t taught in church. Church leaders, apparently, are wrestling with this. They’re just being exposed to ideas that had been outside the purview of the church. I think that’s a fairly important part of it. I think also a version of it is just the general difficulties that non-college-educated white men have had across the US, that Mormons are having their own personal version of that. Basically, a lot of people can spend their time playing Fortnite, and that keeps them away from going to church. So it’s Fortnite and Joe Rogan.…
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