truth dancer wrote:The pastor shared with us the way the funds are used and basically, after the basic running of the church, ALL the funds are given to various local charities. The church is working toward providing complete funding for several programs in the area including a facility/program to help single mothers with children get back on their feet, and two others that are really amazing in this area.
Doesn't your pastor understand god's top priority in the 21st Century is shopping malls? That pastor is obviously not receiving current revelation from Jesus.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
Quasimodo wrote: Any chance of opening a casino in the mall? That would really boost the Utah economy. All that cash going into the Church coffers.
Some small changes might need to be made to Utah State laws. Maybe a small section of downtown Salt Lake City could be added to the Goshute Indian reservation. That would make it easy.
Yeah, the church already has members gambling 10% of their cash that the nonsense they teach is for real. Why not just explicitly endorse gambling for the church's benefit? They could turn that 10% into 20 or 30%!
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Quasimodo wrote: Any chance of opening a casino in the mall? That would really boost the Utah economy. All that cash going into the Church coffers.
Some small changes might need to be made to Utah State laws. Maybe a small section of downtown Salt Lake City could be added to the Goshute Indian reservation. That would make it easy.
Yeah, the church already has members gambling 10% of their cash that the nonsense they teach is for real. Why not just explicitly endorse gambling for the church's benefit? They could turn that 10% into 20 or 30%!
But wouldn't that have given the 1998 Chicago Bulls an undue advantage in the NBA Finals? I mean, if Dennis Rodman had not been taking the redeye flights from SLC to Vegas to gamble, just imagine how much better he'd have been at unwinding the Jazz's offensive game.
I recall about this time last year the Church kicking a woman and a child out of their hotel and into the street.
I'm not sure what that has to do with The Mall, but I'm pretty sure Jesus wouldn't have done that.
What a sad tale... :/
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Some Schmo wrote:Yeah, the church already has members gambling 10% of their cash that the nonsense they teach is for real. Why not just explicitly endorse gambling for the church's benefit? They could turn that 10% into 20 or 30%!
The reason that tithing is not comparable to gambling is that you have at least a slight chance of getting something back when you spend your money on gambling.
Drifting wrote:It must be a coincidence that a FP letter was read out last Sunday exhorting the members to pay their tithing.
We've been assured by apologists than none of the Mall costs came from tithing.
Have you seen the same assurances that none of the Mall costs came from the proceeds of invested tithing?
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator