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Date: October 05, 2010 03:24PM
According to what's written in the New Testament (NT), did Jesus criticize and condemn gays, lesbians, prostitutes, atheists, agnostics and other individuals who didn't fit the 'mold' in patriarchal Judaism? No, he did not. The people Jesus DID rebuke were the religious leaders - Pharisees, Sadducees, etc. - for their ego-driven hypocrisy, narrow-mindedness, insensitivity, inflexibility, and addiction to control. "Hypocrites" and "white-washed tombs filled with bones" are the descriptives in the NT attributed to Jesus relative to the Jewish religious leaders of the day.
The NT describes Jesus condemning those 'spiritual' leaders for turning a blind eye to the needs of the poor, sick, widowed and orphaned. The story of the impoverished widow donating her last mite while Jewish religious leaders very publicly gave alms (and lived comfortably!) mirrors what's gone on in the LDS Church for generations: members, including those in the Third and Developing World, struggling to get by financially, year after year, while LD$ Inc. takes their cash and spends millions and billions of dollars to increase its HUGE wealth (~$50B).
As you aware that LD$ Inc. has been spending $3+ billion on its shopping-mall-and-condos project in SLC, tens of millions of dollars on its new hotel in Hawaii, and $60+ million to buy up real estate holdings over the past 12 months alone? According to its own published numbers, the church - a.k.a. LD$ Inc. - donates less than 1% of its multi-billion-dollar annual income for humanitarian purposes (ref.
http://www.postmormon.org/exp_e/index.php/discussions/viewthread/19091/).
Guess how many of the LDS Church's 17 priceless Rembrandt works of art the 'Prophet' has ordered to be auctioned off and the cash donated to help financially struggling Latter-day Saints, or starving children, or people in the Third World who desperately need medical attention? One? Two? NONE! That's how 'Christian' the 'one, true' corporation of Jesus Christ is!!