They could spin it as an apostolic dispensation and have one of the twelve claim it was revealed to him that many of the dead were baptized under his authority while he sat in Utah. Oh, the tender mercies.
paulk Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A guy on Facebook posted that he hopes the Church > sets up a special fund to raise money to restore > the Houston temple from it's flood damage.
As though the church cannot afford to fix whatever the damage is or to rebuild if necessary.
If there is so much concern for the House of Polygamy, the church can pry open it's pocketbooks and take care of it. I would be a darn site more impressed if the Q15, the so-called "apostles", would head to the devastation and roll-up their sleeves and do some real help.
The church announced it was sending three trucks to Houston.
They didn't say what they contained...
New carpet, new floor tile, air freshener, and lots of white clothing for the temple-recommend-holding members to wear while they clean up the house of the lard.
special fund? you mean in addition to their billions of dollars in tithing funds? Maybe they shouldn't be building mega malls if they want to make sure their temples have sufficient funds for repairs in these kinds of events. And anyway didn't they have insurance?
But seriously it is sickening that any focus should be on caring about that stupid building when people have lost their homes. How about a fund for the actual victims? And how about NOT taking MORE money from LDS members, but using what they have already stolen from them to help out!
You'd think the local members' financial priorities would be to repair the damage done to their homes rather than a building owned by a multi billon dollar corporation.....
Clearly Mormon Heavenly Father doesn't give a rat's ass about his Houston Temple as His Highness didn't lift a single omniscient finger to save the ugly bucket of cement. He has so many Temples from which to choose anyway for when he want to go "a dwelling."
Fund raising for the temple! Too bad the flood wasn't as shallow as the Mormons.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a prophet of god that could have foreseen this impending calamity, thus saving his holy structure from the savages of nature????
Maybe it is a chance for the members to re-invest themselves in the madness. The q15 understand this. If SLC fronts all the money, the locals will just be like, oh, the temple is closed.... I'll go when it reopens and SLC has taken care of it. If they engage the locals financially and through local sweat and tears, the people will be more engaged when it again comes online. In the mean time they can hype Dallas, and San Antionio temple attendance. Telling those other city locals that they need to make appointments because the Houston crowd will be visiting and that their temple attendance blessing will be important too.....
There is no losing for the Morg leadership. I wish I had such a lucrative scheme going.
I was told at BYU that if everyone stops paying tithing now,, the church can still live comfortably for the next 6 years. They'd be able to do what they do now without any changes. Sometimes I think members don't realize how rich the church is