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Mormons and materialism.

Good article with very valid points. Like I said before Joseph and Brigham would not recognize te church of today.
 
Who was the guy who gave the GC talk about going to NYC in less than top of the line cloth so employer billionaire John Huntsman had him fitted in a $4000 suit? It's only a couple years back.

I don't mean any offense to anyone but that really disturbed the hell out of me. It came off as a GC going against every standardized warning inside the BofM.
 
The writer certainly has a tilted view, IMO. But they are some very valid points.
 
Some good 'ol fashioned Mormon economics for ya.

Brigham Young- The Use and Abuse of Blessings
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Journal_of_Discourses/Volume_1/Use_and_Abuse_of_Blessings

"While the brethren have been speaking upon the blessings the Lord bestows upon this people, my mind has reflected upon many of the circumstances of life, and upon certain principles. I will ask you a question—Do you think persons can be blessed too much? I will answer it myself. Yes, they can, they can be blessed to their injury. For instance, suppose a person should be blessed with the knowledge of the holy Gospel, whose heart is set in him to do evil. We esteem this as a blessing, and would not the Lord consider it a blessing to bestow His favors and mercies upon any individual, by giving him a knowledge of life and salvation? But suppose He bestowed it upon persons whose hearts were set in them to do evil, who would by their wickedness turn these blessings into curses, they would be blessed too much. It is possible to bless people to death, you can bless them to everlasting misery by heaping too many blessings upon them. Perhaps this is what was meant by the saying—It is like heaping coals of fire upon their heads; it will injure them, consume them, burn them, destroy them. Suffice it to say, that people can be blessed too much. Can you bless a wise man too much? a man who knows what to do with his blessings when they are bestowed upon him? No, you cannot. Can you bless a wise people too much? No, it is impossible, when they know how to improve upon all blessings that are bestowed upon them."
 
Interesting that the article makes no mentions of the hundreds of millions of dollars the church has spent on charity. The article also makes the assumption that the way to take care of the poor is through the government. Why not take a look at how much money Romney gives to charity?

I'm of the opinion that society is better off when we take care of each other, not when we tax each other and have the government take care of us. It used to be that when you were in trouble you went to your family, your church, the Salvation Army, the Kiwanis Club, the Rotary Club, your neighbors... nowadays we are supposed to go to the government. And government is heartless, because you are knocking on the door of a bureaucrat.


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Sure there are some LDS people that are rich, but before you criticize Jon Huntsman for buying someone a suit, why don't you look up on the noth eastern hills of Salt Lake City? Mormon Welfare works better than Federal Welfare. Mormon Charities respond faster than FEMA. Why doesn't the article mention this???



P.S. Thanks for sharing the article, I LOVED it. There are WAY too many LDS people that are materialistic and need the message. I'm posting it on my facebook wall to throw a middle finger at all my Tea party friends that think being a true latter day saint means being a member of the Tea Party.
 
JFFR said:
Sure there are some LDS people that are rich, but before you criticize Jon Huntsman for buying someone a suit, why don't you look up on the noth eastern hills of Salt Lake City? Mormon Welfare works better than Federal Welfare. Mormon Charities respond faster than FEMA. Why doesn't the article mention this???
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I definitely agree. If anything, it would be easier to fault LDS people for being overly charitable. Huntsman is giving his fortune to medical research and that wasn't about him being a bad guy or anything. I found that GC speech very odd and missing the point is all.
 
Good article, but a bit too over the top for me. I'm not Romney fan, but give me a break... That guy has probably helped 10,000x more people than you or I combined.
 
I have no problem with the LDS Chruch being filthy rich. Owning possesions is not a sin. Letting them affect your pride is. The LDS Church does many, many wonderful things. Charities, employment programs, humanitarian aid, training...with their wealth.
 
BluesRocker said:
This dude is just looking for a Mormon to fight with

Siromar, you trollin as mother efffer you. :)

Who knew.
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A lot of Mormons use these forums, and I thought they would find the article interesting. I don't care enough about Mormonism to pick fights (after all, I survived 4 years at BYU without incident). Islam on the other hand...
 
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