Nothing infuriates me more than a church that has made an empire of money, tears, dead bodies and heartbreaks through lies, suddenly making claims of being misrepresented.

There is a special kind of abuse that the church is built on an that is "misrepresentation".

The entire set up is thrust upon unsuspecting victims without proper consent.

When you joined, did you know about the hundred+ billions sitting there? Did you know that the temple ceremony would make you promise, at the pain if death, complete obedience and financial servitude for the eternities? Did you know that GAs get paid? that they get book deal, chauffeurs, vacations?

Did you know about the MMM, BY's sordid history. About Fanny and the barn. Did you know about the Egyptian scrolls or about the treasure digging. Did you know about the BOM changes?

Did you know when you were 8 years old about the hundreds of other facts that would prove it all to be a lie when you consented to follow forever, no matter what?

Nope. Neither did I.

The church, from Smith to the commitment pattern to the temple to Ensign peak it a carefully build machine whose only purpose is to misrepresent. To lie and wait to deceive until they have your life in a jar. Then, invoking faith, you cant get out.

It is a life-long, soul-crushing trap. No giving proper consent is what evil does.

Now, again, they get caught in a lie and they yell fake news!

They don't want people to put together the obvious: Rich, tax-free men travel in first class to dirt-poor countries, get in a lime, go to their first class hotel and then they hold a meeting promising people who make less than a dollar a day that, if they pay a full 10% of that money, first and foremost, God will give them jobs and food and make them prosper. Some of them choose which days their kids will not eat in order to show their faith. While the gentleman drives off to report his success to the pigs sitting on one hundred billion that have an on-call chef, that all went well. They don't need to have faith, they have billions. They don't need to sacrifice it all and hope God will help them, they help themselves. They don't need miracles and humiliating poverty to prove their worth. they got BILLIONS. Hundreds of BILLIONS.

Now, they clutch their pears and cry misrepresentation, victimhood, once again, misrepresenting the facts and the situation.

Misunderstood. Misrepresented. Even Persecuted as my father would say anytime anything negative surfaced about the Mormon church.

And now the Washington Post is persecuting the Mormons once again. The persecution is proof that this is Jesus true church and Satan is cleverly using a major news source with a fact checked story to employ his evil plan.

Poor Jesus. Poor Heavenly Father. What's a God to do?

Very true there is a great deal of poverty in the world which causes lots of international turmoil, it fuels crime, drug and human trafficking (which is slowly draining and destroying America). If 100 billion could be seeded in some way to help start new businesses abroad, that would be something special.

I'd say fund education, but by now I hope it's apparent that education is a waste for most people. What they need are jobs, not 40,000 doctors selling tacos.

They are a cancer on the poor.

re your disdain for education.

Make a list of the ten highest GDP per capita states in the US. Make a list of the ten best educated states (college degrees per capita). Note the almost total overlap of the two lists.

Yes, there are plenty of good trade jobs, apprenticeships, yada yada. Those are also forms of education. It takes more than HS.

The only way they fix it is by ending the tithing requirement and reducing the cost of missionary work. They can fund most church work with the returns on their 100 billion. Any other response by the church shows they have been represented accurately.

Misrepresentation - starts with the name on the plaque on the building as you drive by.

Look at the original D&C - the name used now is not the same as Jesus personally gave to Joey. They changed it.

Not talking about Church of Christ or Church of the Latter Day Saints - so go to the original as Joey received it and you will see the jokers corrected what Jesus revealed!

The technical term for this is "gaslighting" - telling people they are not seeing what they are seeing, when you know damn well they are seeing reality.

I'm not talking about gas lighting. Im talking about, up front misrepresenting what they are doing. Yes gas-lighting is a foundational doctrine of the church. Bit they also misrepresent everything they do, THEN they tell you it did not happen.

the MOrmon church is the literal Devil OPie ~

Rusty is like Al Pacino in “The Devil’s Advocate”.