Race Ban, Word of Wisdom in Fundamentalist Mormon Groups (Cristina Rosetti 5 of 5)

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Great & Abominable Church

Cristina  01:36  Aren't I also the greatest of abominables?



GT  01:39  (Chuckling) Oh, we haven't gone there, have we?



Cristina  01:43  The great whore of Babylon.



GT  01:45  Do you have any thoughts on the Book of Mormon there, and the Catholic Church?



Cristina  01:48  Of that particular part?



GT  01:49  Yes.



Cristina  01:50  No. Not really. No, I mean, Bruce R. McConkie said it to me/my people.



GT  02:01  And you weren't offended?



Cristina  02:04  He's allowed to think that. I mean, here's the thing. It's not like the Catholic Church has high views of the LDS Church. Right? It's not like we've been just so kind to LDS people that like...



GT  02:22  A little blowback is okay.



Cristina  02:23  Yeah, it's fine. I'll take it. It's fine. I mean, the Catholic Church has historically had a very strong opinion about Mormonism. So, of course, the LDS Church would have a strong opinion about Catholicism. The one reason I do think it's a little strange that they butted heads so ardently, is because Mormons and Catholics were both viewed very negatively in the 19th century.



GT  02:49  Oh yeah, absolutely.



Cristina  02:50  Do you know, that great picture of the Capitol. And there's a crocodile and alligator and one is the Mormons and ones says like "Romanist." It doesn't say Catholic. Maybe it does say Catholic. But we're the Papists. And you're the Mormons. Both were hated so vehemently by Protestant America. The fact that they couldn't get along, either you'd think that they would have been like, "Well..."



GT  03:18  Well, you're only like, 100 times bigger than us.



Cristina  03:22  1.3 billion.



GT  03:24  Maybe 1000 times.



Cristina  03:27  I mean, there's 16 million.



GT  03:28  Yeah, 100, I guess I was right.



Cristina  03:30  16 million LDS people.



GT  03:33  Officially.



Cristina  03:35  I have never said that number to an LDS person who hasn't been like, "Well, on the rolls, but in [reality...] Just take it. Just take 16 million. I mean, but that's the same for Catholicism.



GT  03:48  Yeah. There's only like 900 million?



Cristina  03:52  I don't know. I don't know. But I mean, because they track numbers differently. It would be [different.]



GT  04:00  You can say you're Catholic and never go to church. Maybe you can say that with Mormons, too, I guess. But...



Cristina  04:08  The lived religion. But I mean, what is it?



GT  04:12  How many active Catholics are there really?



Cristina  04:14  I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how many active LDS there are. How would you know this answer?



GT  04:22  Well, John Dehlin,[1] said it's about 30%.



Cristina  04:25  Do you know he got that number?



GT  04:26  He used to work at the church.



Cristina  04:28  Oh,