DarkHelmet wrote:Have we ever had a tidy prophet? Brigham Young seemed like a slob. Joseph Smith was too busy running from mobs and coming up with revelations to keep things tidy. Gordon B. Hinckley seemed like a tidy prophet.
David O McKay, that man was sharp. Wore a white suit.
Cylon wrote:David O McKay, that man was sharp. Wore a white suit.
I hear he made some tasty fried chicken.
"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
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
LDSToronto wrote:McMullin explains that City Creek exists to combat urban blight, not to fill church coffers. “Will there be a return?” he asks rhetorically. “Yes, but so modest that you would never have made such an investment—the real return comes in folks moving back downtown and the revitalization of businesses.” Pausing briefly, he adds with deliberation: “It’s for furthering the aim of the church to make, if you will, bad men good, and good men better.”
So shopping at Forever 21 and eating at the Cheesecake Factory makes us better men and women? Puuuhleease!
Oh and how about this:
Asked about the $1.3 billion estimate of the church’s humanitarian efforts over the last quarter-century, LDS Church spokesman Michael Purdy writes in an e-mail, “Though the church’s monetary donations are significant, much of the ‘value’ of our service is not monetary, but in the hundreds of thousands of hours of service and the talent and expertise given by church members to help others around the world.”
So (outside of Fast Offering) the church has done little humanitarian aid comparatively to its overall income. But the real value is on the thousands of hours of service? Well did THE CHURCH really do the service? Nope. The members did and could do service without the church. Granted the church does encourage service but it does not do it. And how many of the hundreds of thousands of hours of service was serving in callings for the Church?
Asked about the $1.3 billion estimate of the church’s humanitarian efforts over the last quarter-century, LDS Church spokesman Michael Purdy writes in an e-mail, “Though the church’s monetary donations are significant, much of the ‘value’ of our service is not monetary, but in the hundreds of thousands of hours of service and the talent and expertise given by church members to help others around the world.”
Joseph Smith History 1:8 wrote:...In process of time my mind became somewhat partial to the Methodist sect, and I felt some desire to be united with them; but so great were the confusion and strife among the different denominations, that it was impossible for a person young as I was, and so unacquainted with men and things, to come to any certain conclusion who was right and who was wrong.
Joseph Smith History 1:19 wrote:I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.
Business Week wrote:Cragun estimates that the Mormon Church donates only about 0.7 percent of its annual income to charity; the United Methodist Church gives about 29 percent.
And now we know why God was so pissed at those Methodists, too much charity.
This crap is so blatant and stupid that I don't think I could make it up if I tried.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”
So, rather than help that person escape temporal impoverishment by giving him some money, the solution is to build a mall?
I'm not seeing the connection here.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Why is downtown SLC the recipient of the church's $5 billion clean up campaign?
What's wrong with spending that money in Paris? Or Hong Kong? Or Rio? Or heck... my hometown???
(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.
Cylon wrote:The wisdom of the prophet, God's representative on earth, Thomas S. Monson: "One, two, three—let’s go shopping!"
And I didn't even know Monson was Gay.
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.
harmony wrote:Why is downtown Salt Lake City the recipient of the church's $5 billion clean up campaign?
What's wrong with spending that money in Paris? Or Hong Kong? Or Rio? Or heck... my hometown???
Or Haiti...
“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
Cylon wrote:The wisdom of the prophet, God's representative on earth, Thomas S. Monson: "One, two, three—let’s go shopping!"
And I didn't even know Monson was Gay.
LOL. Did he double snap after saying "let's go shopping?"
"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