Ok I was on YouTube and a arrogant Mormon was bragging how this cult sends missionaries on missions,helps out in hurricanes, helps the poor and needy,does the Mormon cult actually help the poor and needy? Or do they just brag how great their cult is!

Mormon never do anything without an ulterior motive. I remember when they sent truckloads of food and water to Hurricane Katrina victims. They had commercials in SLC and people outside of all the major grocery stores asking the public to donate something-anything, for Katrina victims. People, from all walks of life, gave to this effort. Then, they loaded up 5 trucks, showed everyone loading the trucks wearing bright yellow LDS t-shirts while the local media aired the effort. By the time the volunteer truckers got to New Orleans, national media picked up the story how "the mormon church" is donating 5 semi trucks of food to hurricane victims. The givers we're the little people of Utah, but the church took credit for the donation. Since then, I've paid real close attention whenever some official church talking head announces the church's relief efforts. It's always 100% someone else's cash, but the church takes the credit.

Spot on. Rarely does the church reach into their own pocket and donate money. Why not have the for profit businesses the church owns donate to the non profit church arm for the tax advantage?

It's always a donation from members and not the church itself.

A few years ago there was a Businessweek article that addressed how much actually goes to charitable giving (it seems to be behind a paywall now), and as I recall it amounted to mere pennies per member. The article contrasted that to the Methodist church, which gave out 23% of every dollar received for charitable giving.

Most US churches donate 25%-55% of their "income" to charities. The mormon has been estimated to give.7% of their wealth, yearly, to charity or relief efforts. Not 7%, but .7%. How do you think they can build billion dollar malls, high end condo complex's, own some of the biggest ranches in the world and the large amounts of real estate? They're not a religion, they're a business conglomerate masquerading as a tax exempt religion.

The LDS church charity donations is less than the 1% that U2 frontman Bono [Paul Hewson] donates from his show boating for charity concerts. His ONE organization puts on these "Name your cause or tradgedy to solve" and pockets the rest.


"Bono's ONE foundation under fire for giving little over 1% of funds to charity"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314543/Bonos-ONE-foundation-giving-tiny-percentage-funds-charity.html

Like Bono, he does all he can to avoid taxes, the church does the same by hiding the businesses original source of income coming through tax free as tithing and dying members that will assets to the church.

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865657898/LDS-Church-welfare-humanitarian-efforts-average-40-million-per-year-apostle-says.html

$40 million per year for 30 years - sounds impressive. But then consider that church membership probably averaged about 10 million over that time frame, so that means that LD$, Inc. gave about $4/member per year. Compare that to how much you contributed in fast offerings. Not quite so impressive sounding now.

Then consider this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Creek_Center
"The City Creek Center project itself has been estimated to cost around $1.5 billion.[4]"
$40 million per year for 30 years is $1.2 billion. Put that in perspective - they spent more on a shopping center than 30 years of humanitarian aid.

Yep it is a cult and a scam and Mormons brag a lot!

One of the selling points of tithing and offerings was that the church would help you in time of need.

Nothing is further from the truth.

You can read hundreds of posts about people needing help and not only being denied help but vilified for not paying tithing while they were needing help.

The church released a statement during the last economic crisis that it was not obligated to help church members and for them to rely on friends, family and the feds. But pay your tithing!

...because screw the poor and needy: we've got high-end mega-malls and posh apartment complexes to finance, you little piss-ants!! NOW PAY YOUR TITHING, DAMMIT...THE LARD DEMANDS IT!!!

Do Mormons help the needy? Sure. Does the Mormon church as a whole help? Yes, but through the individual members. The church will never open their own purse to help those in need, but they will fall over themselves to take credit for the generosity of their membership.

HELP? haahahaajaha

They help themselves and think about themselves and talk about themselves - to themselves... bragging about their cult (and how lost they are in it).

TSCC talks about the good (not bad) it's [it thinks it is] doing, AND the fools believe it.

They (demand) take a thousand of your large coins and a thousand from another and a few thousand from another and so on and so forth and gives a few tiny ones - with strings attached - to some small, invisible, inconsequential roach of a member and the rest to the high rolling holy rollers/ themselves (for Profit).

They take care of the poor and needy: themselves.



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Drive around SLC and take note of who is running the free clinics, shelters, food banks, etc.

Hint: While individual members may support these organizations, they are NOT run by TSCC.

Too busy running that billion $ mall.

Churches that actually do these things rarely brag about it. They simply do it.

Corporations do this. Church Inc. is a corporation.
Look what "We" do for the community in need.

You mean you take credit for the efforts and donations from the people who actually DO something? (Ie, not from CHURCH INC funded resources?)

Nope sorry, that tithing you gave that you thought would go to people in actual need goes to the Bishop's Storehouse (to assist people we will deem worthy of receiving after a long and invasive interview), to buy property to expand our financial interests and to build buildings we make an ever reducing population of available and worthy people attend,clean and maintain with further personal funds...how else are we going to live in posh homes?

But its all for the good of the Lawd..right?

The business I am employed with does the same thing. It takes advantage of the people giving their own time and money to represent their LOGO under the guise of giving back to the community.

Its ALL BUSINESS folks. Image. Fabricated façade to look good to the community.

Fortunately, I know a lot of people I have "caught doing good" that want no attention whatsoever. I wont even mentioned what...but it restored my faith in humanity that there are people who genuinely give and sacrifice back to the world without jumping up and down to say "Look at me! Im Nice"

RMM