{"id":1264,"date":"2023-12-13T14:35:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T20:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2023-12-13T14:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T20:35:47","slug":"brigham-young-insists-that-his-household-alone-makes-mormonism-the-largest-world-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Brigham Young Insists that His Household Alone Makes Mormonism the Largest World Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Satura Apologia Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salt Lake City \u2013 In an effort to gain more attention on the world stage, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints recently suggested that they were the largest world religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cMy household alone puts us at number one!\u201d A proud Brigham Young declared. \u201cThere are more Mormons married to me than there are Christians in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Additionally, Joseph Smith suggested that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was also the fastest-growing world religion. \u201cWe have got the most kids because we have the most wives,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIt\u2019s simple arithmetic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At publishing time, Christians pushed back on Brigham Young\u2019s claim, pointing out that while he still had fifty-five wives too many, it still did not make the Latter-Day Saint Church the largest world religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satura Apologia Today Salt Lake City \u2013 In an effort to gain more attention on the world stage, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints recently suggested that they were the largest world religion. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cMy household alone puts us at number one!\u201d A proud Brigham Young declared. \u201cThere are more Mormons married to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satura-apologia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}