about people not having turkeys for Thanksgiving and food banks in desperate need of food. The church is investing in property with their money instead of helping the poor and starving.
Every country, even the poor ones, has a food tradition on a certain holiday.
I think as long as you are voting for causes you believe in with domestic matters, and even donating to cherity whenever you can, volunteering for chaarity, or helping random people when they need it-- its ok to establish various little happy family/friend traditions in your own life.
Even the poor will spend what little money they can scrape up, or contribute what little food they can find to a special tradition or holiday.
But yes, the chruch could spend the tithe payers money on better things besides a shopping mall, and big, fancy temples. why can't they do like the Native americans do, and simply pick out big, beautiful places of nature to be sacred, and perform their special rituals? Why can't they just build a tent there to keep the rituals private from the public eye? Why do they have to build these milti-million dollar temples??? Its vanity!
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3,000,000,000 / $25 = 120 MILLION TURKEYS.....nobody in the western hemisphere would go hungry on turkey day.
OR.....we can have new tile and paint for Macy's and Nordstrom in the exact same place where the old Macy's and Nordstrom were.
Its like trading in your 4 bedroom house for a new 5 bedroom house and having to fork over 3 gazillion dollars (in addition to the old house) just so you can have the extra bedroom and new cabinets. It will be shinny and new (for 5 years anyway) but it was a poor poor economic decision.
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and I know the leaders do not believe in God or else they would be worried about judgment day, for using God in a con, all the lies they tell and the lives they harm with this lie.
In school, all his peers wanted to go to BYU, and I got tired of him talking about going to BYU...so I taught him, when asked "What's BYU?", he answers "Evil" - and with this great grin on his face.
Try not to be too critical. I have many a family member Whom I love that are still TBM. The church is an instrument - it can be used for good or evil. It depends on who's using it and how it's used.