The largest real estate bubble in the world is in China. To keep the economy going the Chinese government has literally built whole cities where nobody lives and in remote areas that make no sense.

Is the church doing the same thing of a smaller scale with temples. Notice it's mostly Utah construction companies that get the temple contracts. The church is also in the real estate business big time. They can buy property up and then announce a temple and sell the property around the temple for a profit.

When people in the government or in a church make money this way the result often is cities for nobody, roads that to nowhere and bridges that serve no real purpose. That's what all this temple building smell like to me. It's a waste of the church's money but someone tied into the church administration is getting their cut. Like parasites sucking the blood out of a host. Of course this kind of corruption continues and even get's worse until the host is sucked dry.

More temples, more un-needed improvements. The church membership has stalled. Young families are no longer joining the church the way they used to. The church members are having less children. Exits look to be on the rise but eight to ten new temples are announced each general conference. Usually in places you question whether a temple is even needed. Temples for nobody.

While they are at it, it's time for the church to get busy and make new film strip presentations. They have all their projectors sitting idle at every meetinghouse and it would help out the missionaries too!

probably used as private hotels from church VIPS

When you have nothing of substance to offer, a facade is a useful, tho hollow, substitute.

I've wondered why those empty cities couldn't house the thousands of homeless.

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> I've wondered why those empty cities couldn't house the thousands of homeless.

ah but that would be *real* Christian charity wouldn't it? Especially if you gave them a meal or something...

Hilarious.

Instead of Potemkin villages the morg will soon have Potemkin temples.

"Potemkin temples." hahaha
So true!

Eventually there'll be enough chinese to fill the cities. There never will be enough mormons to fill the temples.

set to begin declining.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/07/asia/china-population-decline-study-intl/index.html

No, Mormonism is a racket.

and that the majority of the names of dead people being used for temple work nowadays have already been done multiple times, it appears likely that they reached a dead end (pun intended) long ago with regard to any need for additional temples to process ordinances for the dead. Just 4 or 5 temples total could probably easily handle the annual volume of new names being submitted.

(Of course the Church will never release any official reports on their policy with regard to recycling names, so we can't know for certain what's going on.)

The Rome temple notwithstanding, I also have heard several people say that most of the new temples are very cheaply made, with much less quality in materials than the materials used for the classical temples.

ChurchCo has money to spend. Members know there's 10's of billions in the pot and probably wonder where all that is going. To keep the sheep in the pen they build temples to: 1-tell the world 'hey - we're still relevant and growing like mad'; 2-invest tithes and offerings in TAX FREE real estate. They don't build for humanitarian purposes e.g. shelters and soup kitchens because those could be TAXED. The other thing is the prophecy that 'temples will dot the earth'. With this in mind it wouldn't look good to stop building temples. I don't think they give a rats a$$ that most of the temples outside of Utah sit idle most of the time. Chile, for example, has suffered serious declines in membership but they are getting another temple - go figure. There can be no doubt that membership and local leadership requirements for a temple are VERY RELAXED now. In fact, I would bet that good land deals might now be a driver for chapels and temples.

And here's another thought - the MEMBERS are what make a church NOT THE BUILDINGS! JS was a fraud therefore the church he founded is a fraud and this FACT is contributory to the current membership hemorrhage. The tree is rotten at its roots and needs to be chopped down!