Posted by:
Elizabeth S.
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Date: December 19, 2015 01:01AM
I rarely paid tithing; I refused to. I was skeptical and was a critical thinker.
In 1977, I learned that new converts, in Mexico and South America, were required to pay tithing, even though they had large families, lived in poverty, were starving much of the time and lived in cardboard houses. But the church demanded that every member pay their 10% no matter what. The church told stories about people who saved for their whole lives, just to be able to travel to the U.S. to be sealed in the temple. They sacrificed everything and the church wouldn’t help them get to the temple because the people had to earn their own way.
10% for a Millionaire is NOTHING to them...just a tax write off. 10 % for the Poor, is EVERYTHING.
(Perhaps the millionaires should take up the slack? and pay 50% tithing or more? ... and give the poor guys a break?)
Then, to learn of the avarice (greed) of the LDS church moguls, the millions spent on temples, corporations, real estate...it sickened me, still does, and always will.
I'm stunned to learn about the Ads and the dollars spent, no doubt a sh*t-load of money. Wouldn't that MONEY be better spent on feeding the hungry, helping the widows and orphans (which was supposed to be the essence of what the man Jesus was all about)?
The most pathetic thing is that a church that claims to be Christian, does not emulate what most of us would imagine Jesus would want. Would Jesus even want to envision a church, named after him, as being a Billion dollar Real Estate holding? all the while, ignoring the poor, the addicted, the mentally ill, abused, sad, lonely? by spending money on the corporation and not on the poor souls of the world. Pathetic.