Why the Mormon church is the richest in the world. The Mormons went from a small group of rebels in Utah to the 17 million person religion it is today. With $300 billion, it is now the richest religion per capita. This took a century of burying difficult truths and creating a unified fundamentalist belief that spans the world.
Check out all my sources for this video here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W4AT_Cnx2ILBiv9oorrGfcvnWBxO1hM3fjmQwsLFm_c/edit?tab=t.0
WATCH PART 1: https://youtu.be/hUW7j9GmXjI
WATCH PART 2: https://youtu.be/kieCFwMqKtE
Special thanks to:
– Taylor Petrey, Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College
– Benjamin Park, Author of _American Zion: A New History of Mormonism_
– John Dehlin, Host of Mormon Stories
– Latter Day Labia
— VIDEO CHAPTERS —
0:00 Intro
12:19 Recap
18:01 One Truth
27:21 Growth
29:43 Correlation
45:27 The Family
54:45 They Get Rich
1:03:21 The Church Today
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About:
Johnny Harris is an Emmy-winning independent journalist and contributor to the New York Times. Based in Washington, DC, Harris reports on interesting trends and stories domestically and around the globe, publishing to his audience of over 5 million on Youtube. Harris produced and hosted the twice Emmy-nominated series Borders for Vox Media. His visual style blends motion graphics with cinematic videography to create content that explains complex issues in relatable ways.
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