Mormonism Faithscore: 32/100

Overview

Mormonism scores 32 out of 100 in Faithscore's evidence-based evaluation, indicating minimal evidentiary support across most weighted criteria.

Faithscore applies court-like evidentiary standards across six weighted criteria. Every system is scored against the same rubric — religious or philosophical — to surface objective comparisons. Read the full methodology.

The six weighted criteria

• Textual fidelity — preservation, manuscript count, and accuracy of source documents.
• Historical verification — independent corroboration, hostile-witness testimony, archaeological confirmation.
• Scientific testability — falsifiable claims, observable evidence, repeatable predictions.
• Internal consistency — logical coherence of doctrine and absence of contradiction.
• Prophetic accuracy — ratio of fulfilled to unfulfilled predictions, dated against earliest manuscripts.
• Explanatory power — how well the system accounts for the breadth of human experience.

Denominations of Mormonism

• Restoration Branches — Faithscore 40/100
• Community of Christ — Faithscore 38/100
• Bickertonite Church — Faithscore 35/100
• Cutlerite Church — Faithscore 33/100
• LDS (Salt Lake) — Faithscore 32/100
• Strangite Church — Faithscore 30/100
• FLDS — Faithscore 25/100

Compare Mormonism

• Mormonism vs Christianity
• Mormonism vs Islam
• Mormonism vs Hinduism
• Mormonism vs Secularism
• Mormonism vs Evolution/Naturalism
• Mormonism vs Agnosticism

See also

• Faithscore methodology
• Evidence library
• All 313 religions

Scholarly sources for Mormonism

The Faithscore analysis of Mormonism draws on the following peer-reviewed scholarship, primary research institutions, and academic publishers.