History
| year | population | church members | percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 8,146,000 | 7,754,784 | 95.2% |
| 1975 | 8,208,000 | 7,770,881 | 94.7% |
| 1980 | 8,278,000 | 7,690,636 | 92.9% |
| 1985 | 8,358,000 | 7,629,763 | 91.5% |
| 1990 | 8,573,000 | 7,630,350 | 89.0% |
| 1995 | 8,837,000 | 7,601,194 | 86.0% |
| 2000 | 8,880,000 | 7,360,825 | 82.9% |
| 2005 | 9,048,000 | 6,967,498 | 77.0% |
| 2010 | 9,415,570 | 6,589,769 | 70.0% |
| 2011 | 9,482,855 | 6,519,889 | 68.8 % |
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“To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
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“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)