Yahoo Bot wrote:But the Church commissioned a study which revealed that the strength of Church leadership, male and female, worldwide, derives from having a BYU education and meeting a spouse there more than just about anything else (seminary, mission, temple marriage).
I don't understand why BYU would be the seedbed for future church leadership. It seems like the church would be getting its leaders from the 300,000 or so converts who join the church each year. Surely, the church is only attracting the cream of the crop and would not need to rely on legacy Mormons who attend BYU to fill leadership positions throughout the world, right? I mean, there are ten times as many converts each year as there are total day-time students attending the BYU. It's a much larger pool. BYU really ought to be an irrelevancy. Interesting study, indeed...
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Fifth Columnist wrote:I think the FO program does a LOT of good. I don't pay tithing (and won't until the Church is honest with the members), but I willingly and happily pay FO. I would love it if the Church would expand the FO program and fund it with some of the gargantuan amount of tithing it receives every year.
It would be great as a means of protest if faithful but uncorrelated LDS would pay 10% as fast offering, and skipped tithing.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
Daniel Peterson wrote: Utah is a net exporter of tithing monies, not a net importer.
And BYU serves mostly non-Utahans.
Excellent points!
1. Harmony should have first found this net exporter of tithing money if she had bothered to glance at the Church financial records.
2. It is little known fact that BYU serves mostly California students and that as a private entity it exists beyond the realm of any earthly states or nations.