Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:If you think about it, the investment in downtown Salt Lake City will be a long-term albatross...
This cannot be true. We have been told over and over again that our leaders will never lead us... hmmmm... into bankruptcy? Of course they won't... they'll just keep hammering us for more tithing!
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.
"The Church is authoritarian, tribal, provincial, and founded on a loosely biblical racist frontier sex cult."--Juggler Vain "The LDS church is the Amway of religions. Even with all the soap they sell, they still manage to come away smelling dirty."--Some Schmo
The Mormon church financial records aren't secret, they're sacred.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
DarkHelmet wrote:The Mormon church financial records aren't secret, they're sacred.
I think this is what most full tithe payers believe.
Also, I think most full tithe payers believe that to criticize the church for not releasing the finances is akin to asking (in sneering manner) for Jesus to show us a sign or save himself from being crucified.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
Gordon B. Hinckley said that we don't disclose the church financial records because that information is only relevant to the people who made the donation. Ok. As a former donor, I want the financial records!
zeezrom wrote:If you were church shopping, would you pick one of the few that keeps its financial records closed to its membership and lay leadership?
Yes! If I were church shopping, I would look for one that I could be reasonably certain God had inspired. What do open or closed financial records have to do with whether or not God has inspired it?
The only people who would ask that are the ones who had faith in a con man.
The rest of the world knows the answer.
(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.
