Apparently being dirt poor really does make you unworthy for a temple!

http://ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.com/

...(in my opinion, anyway) is that if the temple ordinances are essential to exaltation, then there should be temples wherever there are Mormons. They should make a special point of putting temples in places where members are stuck on an island.

Of course, I'd rather those members ditch Mormonism, but if they're going to stay, they should all be treated equally important to the church.

If the temple ordinances WERE real and as important as they say they are, they would spend less on each building and build more of them.

There is no need (I've said this till I'm blue) for the big monster in Philly. For the same build cost, they could build 4-5 smaller less showy ones. There might be a need for one in Rome, but there will NEVER be a need for one as large as they are building. They only would need a mini McTemple that seats 30 there.

and use the 7 billion dollars of revenue they generated from tithing this past year to help better living conditions in Haiti?

Oh, yeah, because that's something Jesus actually would do.

They will be bringing in supplies for the children and will participate in improving the infrastructure by painting the buildings. I've told him he will do more Christ-like service during his two weeks in Haiti than if he ever served a two-year mission for the LDS church there.

;o)

Just goes to show what the church is all about

Now just sit back and wait for the delightsomeness to start showing ...

Wait for it........ Wait for it.........

Waaaaaaaiiiiiiiiittt for iiiiiitttt......

Any second now..... Aaaaaaany second now......

Easy answer: because there is poverty, no one can pay tithing. Because no one can pay tithing, no one is WORTHY of the blessings of the temple.

Ta-DA!

Jesus would be pissed.

Just thinkin' out loud...

At least they have a temple on the same island (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) and travel is cheaper than from other islands in the temple district (Puerto Rico).

My thought is that since the point of the Handshake Houses is to generate money for the cult, and the Haitians tend to be poor....what would be the point of the cult building a money-sucking Handshake house there??? There are other places where they could make a bigger prophet...uh, I mean PROFIT. That's what they really care about.

It would be absolutely obscene for any group on earth to build a fancy-shmancy building like a temple in a place that needs--actually NEEDS--so much more.

Adult of God, if the cult thought they could make a profit there, they would build the Handshake House. They don't give a rat's ass about the poor there or anywhere else.

I did the math last time and you could send just about every active member (5 million-ish) to a temple for their ordinances for the price of City Creek.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/2012 09:07PM by throwaway22.