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Why Do Church Of Latter-Day Saints Use The Internet?

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Missionary and internet

Introduction
As time passed and technologies are becoming more developed, internet becomes a huge phenomenon whereby we can reach anyone from around the world by the tip of our finger. The internet has become an important everyday life technology which can widely influence a person life culturally, spiritually and it can also affect their religious belief. Internet users are increasing and it is not only being used by the young generation, but also people from the older generation which is why even missionary are using the new technology as a way to spread their religion. Here, I will analyses specifically on how missionary specifically on the Church of Latter-day Saints copes with the used of the internet, how they …show more content…

This shows that the missionaries are showing a positive respond to use of technology because the issue between religion and their respond to the use of technology has not always been positive and other religions are not willing to trust the use of internet, but in terms of the Church of Latter-Day Saints they are willing to trained their members and they loosen up their rule and giving the missionaries permission to convert the opposite gender so that they can widened their mission and gain more members. However, we could still see that they do not fully trust their missionaries to use the internet because they have to use public computer and this shows that the leaders are still practicing political power by controlling their members.
History
The Mormon religion is approximately 150 years old, having been found in the middle 1800's in the United States and Mormonism was founded by Joseph Smith, an American who was born and raised in the Northeast United States whereby the church's headquarters moved West …show more content…

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