My father in law has been a pastor for 45 years. I once asked him if I won Powerball, would he accept the tithe. He said, "absolutely! The devil's had his hands on that money for long enough!"
How the Mormons Make Money
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My father in law has been a pastor for 45 years. I once asked him if I won Powerball, would he accept the tithe. He said, "absolutely! The devil's had his hands on that money for long enough!"
Yeah, how awful that they participated in a revitalization project that didn't cater to their membership only.
Have your wife read the article to you slowly, and maybe you'll get it.
Zombie
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Right, because a church should spend billions of dollars "revitalizing" a city that is already many times more wealthy than most of the rest of the world. It baffles me that people who belong to a church of Jesus Christ, a man who stood for everything this revitalization project does not, aren't up in arms about this. Do you really think if the Savior was the one calling the shots this is how he'd choose to spend the church's money? Imagine how many schools in Africa could have been built, or starving children fed with these billions of dollars. It's sickening.
Edit: This isn't really a reply to the point you were making. Your post just kind of got me thinking.
Unless you are going to overthrow the current governments and replace them all with a benevolent regimes, the billions of dollars that you sent would pretty much be gone by the time it got to the people that actually need it. Throwing billions of dollars at destitute African nations will not solve the problems they currently deal with.
Assasinate the current leadership?
Archie Moses
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Is it just me or is there a trend of posters that follow LDS threads and ALWAYS try and make the church "evil" and "bad" and "wrong" as if they're trying to justify their reasoning and/or hate/intolerance for it?
Here's a message to those whiney school girls. Shut your pie hole and quit playing the "LDS people and church is so, so evil" card. We get it that you don't like it, we're just tired of hearing you yip.
Archie Moses
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I'm sure if the church gave all it's money to Africa and slowly crumbled to nothing, you'd still be bitching.
Oh, and cry harder.
I think calling into question the use of funds is fair game.
As a non-denominational Christian, I am often turned off by the building of these mega-churches that seat 5,000+ .. and the debt on the building puts a chokehold on the congregations finances. Instead of spending their energies reaching the lost, they're fretting over paying for a building.
I use that example because I'm not calling out the Mormon church, but Religions in general.
As a non-denominational Christian, I am often turned off by the building of these mega-churches that seat 5,000+ .. and the debt on the building puts a chokehold on the congregations finances. Instead of spending their energies reaching the lost, they're fretting over paying for a building.
I use that example because I'm not calling out the Mormon church, but Religions in general.
