Black Moclips wrote:When I want to charitably give to an organization that I know will help people and provide them with food, clothing, and shelter, I don't go to Jesus's "official" church on the earth. Because I know that organization is involved with universities, for profit business ventures, banks, insurance companies, and only dabbles in charity and welfare on the side. If I really want to impact someone's life, I give to the Salvation Army, the local food bank, habitat for humanity, St Judes, and like charities.
Wise.
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
Take contributions from poor peasants in South and Central America so that you can teach comparatively rich Americans how to become even richer in SLC, Utah. I see what the church is doing. I think the mall reveals that its mandate is not really universal.
Stranger, please don't shoot me Or hate me for a fraud: I am just the messenger Of your inscrutable God.
beanboots was actually out on a service project serving a needy member of the ward.
Yea, so were we, we just post from our phones while we are helping the needy. I bet the Church mall sells phones that will let you post when you're out serving the needy.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
beanboots was actually out on a service project serving a needy member of the ward.
How much more admirable it would have been if beanboots was out helping a needy person with no denomination to claim. Just some poor person to help, no questions asked.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
City Creek is nice and as malls go, it is probably the only one boasting a critical race theory ring in its cornerstone and the only one with countdown shopping convenience.
Of course, at the Vatican Steps Mall you can purchase an organic crown on the Via Dolorosa concourse and at the Hasidic Weeping Mall, you can get some good bagels.
moksha wrote:City Creek is nice and as malls go, it is probably the only one boasting a critical race theory ring in its cornerstone and the only one with countdown shopping convenience.
Of course, at the Vatican Steps Mall you can purchase an organic crown on the Via Dolorosa concourse and at the Hasidic Weeping Mall, you can get some good bagels.
You made some good points Beanshoot.
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
beanboots wrote:beanboots was actually out on a service project serving a needy member of the ward.
I'd bet dollars to donuts it was a priesthood assignment.
"Moving beyond apologist persuasion, LDS polemicists furiously (and often fraudulently) attack any non-traditional view of Mormonism. They don't mince words -- they mince the truth."
-- Mike Quinn, writing of the FARMSboys, in "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View," p. x (Rev. ed. 1998)
Rollo Tomasi wrote:I'd bet dollars to donuts it was a priesthood assignment.
Probably with a "Mormon Helping Hands" t-shirt. Can't let a PR opportunity pass.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
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beanboots wrote:But why, oh why do people think that it is the Church's duty to give everyone a handout?
I agree, it's not like we are some religious organization who might want to lead the way in charitable donations and feeding the hungry. Screw the poor, they are always around. Let's build a mall for rich people and see if we can attract more of them to downtown. Maybe the poor will feel uncomfortable enough with the upscale neighborhood and go somewhere else. For God's sake we have a temple here, we don't want homeless bums hanging around!!!
Trickle down charity? Give to the rich so that they will buy more luxuries, which will employ more of the middle class and poor to make those luxuries? Yeah, that's the ticket.
