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[_Cylon]

Damnit. You a-holes over here make too much sense. And I say that with the utmost respect.

Lol. I know, right? How are we supposed to maintain our sense of righteous indignation at the persecution heaped upon us?

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OMG. Best quote from this article,

“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”

Holy s***. Tell that to Mother Teresa or, I dunno, Jesus H. Christ!

That is the dumbest thing I think I have ever heard a moron say. Mormon. I meant Mormon.

And as usual the anti-mormon mind cannot understand basic human nature, reality, facts, etc.

1. Mother Teresa and Christ did their work "intentionally".... Further, they were supported by others. A poor person does not "intentionally" make themselves poor, or their family poor.

2. A poor person, who's worrying every day where their next meal will come, or how to feed his children, his LEAST priority is going to be "valiancey" in the Gospel of Christ. He may be good, he may have belief in God, but his priority's most often than not will be on surviving.

A human being must first "survive"..... Spiritual and Gospel things are going to be some of the last things on their mind.

Further, as an Atheist or whatever you idiots are, should be well familiar with the concept.
You see no value whatsoever in the spiritual, you are only focused on the "Temporal".

Thus, what you quoted above is entirely right. The Church has shown over and over again, as well as history, that when you improve a mans temporal life, you help increase his spiritual life, because he is THEN able to spend more time and effort in that endeavor. Someone just trying to survive is much less inclined to spend time and energy on other things. It's a proven fact.

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Further, as an Atheist or whatever you idiots are, should be well familiar with the concept.
You see no value whatsoever in the spiritual, you are only focused on the "Temporal".

Then why did McMullin say that a persons temporal needs had to be taken care of before spirituality can blossom? It seems that focussing on the temporal is EXACTLY where the spiritual value starts.

Thus, what you quoted above is entirely right. The Church has shown over and over again, as well as history, that when you improve a mans temporal life, you help increase his spiritual life, because he is THEN able to spend more time and effort in that endeavor. Someone just trying to survive is much less inclined to spend time and energy on other things. It's a proven fact.

Why then, did the Church choose to spend $5 billion dollars in Salt Lake City on a non profit making commercial venture catering for upmarket fashionista's that is only estimated to create 2,000 jobs (not taking into account jobs lost when business dries up elsewhere) rather than spending it in Africa where men, women and children are so temporally impoverished that they are dying from lack of food and water?

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Dear President Monson...

I am writing to you in my role as a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador and also as a father, with an urgent plea for support.
The children of Somalia and East Africa are in the middle of an unthinkable food crisis.
As you will know from the coverage in this paper over the past few days, famine has struck in Somalia and the worst droughts in 50 years have brought millions to the brink of disaster across the Horn of Africa.
Almost two million children in Somalia alone have been going to bed hungry for many, many weeks. Now and today, as you read this, children are literally dying of hunger.
Every six minutes a child in south Somalia is dying from hunger. Just think about that. And many more will die in the coming weeks unless you and I do something to help.
I never want to see Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz or Harper go to bed without a meal. I cannot begin to think what it is like for those ­children, with not even a grain of rice in their stomachs, going to bed hungry day after day, week after week.
They need our help. They need our attention. They need our action.
This emergency is not limited to Somalia but reaches out across borders into other areas in the Horn of Africa such as Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.
The situation is grim and millions of children are in desperate condition. Their families have been tipped over the edge, their animals are dead, and they have nothing left to live on.
Those who are strong enough are walking miles in search of help. Those who aren’t are staying in their villages, desperately hoping that help reaches them in time.
The people of Somalia are also facing continuing violence from civil war, which means many aid agencies have had to leave the country.
One UN agency had 13 aid workers killed.
However, Unicef, which helps disadvantaged ­children around the world, has been working tirelessly to try to stem the impact of this disaster. I am incredibly proud of their work.
I’ve been to Sierra Leone and South Africa and seen the work that Unicef are doing. I’ve seen malnutrition up close and personal and it is not a pleasant thing. I’ve seen how very little it takes to save a child’s life, but how easily they can fall ill and die if they don’t have simple things such as milk, food, clean water and ­vaccinations to stop disease.
This is why I am a Goodwill Ambassador for Unicef. I want to help Unicef to make a difference for these ­desperately hungry children.
I’ve seen the difference that Unicef’s work makes to children’s lives.
To see children brought back from the brink of death and nurtured into smiling, happy, contented kids is just incredible.
In the past few minutes while you read this, more children will have died. By the time you get to the end of my letter another one will have passed away from hunger. We can prevent more children dying by helping the charity to scale up its efforts.
Unicef provides special food for severely malnourished children as well as safe drinking water, medical care and safety. They are doing it right now in Somalia. Where many organisations can’t get to, they are there.
In the past few weeks I have experienced the incredible happiness that comes from being a father again – for the fourth time!
And I know that there is nothing I wouldn’t do for my children – I think about them all the time and I am sure you feel the same about yours.
But for those families in Somalia, facing a perilous and uncertain future, they need your thoughts too. And they need you to act.
By giving just £5 – often less than the price of a meal in the UK – you could provide life-saving food supplies for children who are hungry. Unicef is the main provider of ­emergency nutrition for children in East Africa, and one of the only organisations working in Somalia, but they desperately need your help to reach every child.
What is happening to children right now is horrific. Please, please help Unicef to help those children.
Please text FOOD to 70030 to give a £5 donation, telephone 0800 037 9797 or visit www.unicef.org.uk .
We need to act now. I promise you that your donation will make a life-saving difference.

David Beckham

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Dear David Beckham...

Late last March the Mormon Church completed an ambitious project: a megamall. Built for roughly $2 billion, the City Creek Center stands directly across the street from the church’s iconic neo-Gothic temple in Salt Lake City. The mall includes a retractable glass roof, 5,000 underground parking spots, and nearly 100 stores and restaurants, ranging from Tiffany’s (TIF) to Forever 21. Walkways link the open-air emporium with the church’s perfectly manicured headquarters on Temple Square. Macy’s (M) is a stone’s throw from the offices of the church’s president, Thomas S. Monson, whom Mormons believe to be a living prophet.

On the morning of its grand opening, thousands of shoppers thronged downtown Salt Lake, eager to elbow their way into the stores. The national anthem played, and Henry B. Eyring, one of Monson’s top counselors, told the crowds, “Everything that we see around us is evidence of the long-standing commitment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Salt Lake City.” When it came time to cut the mall’s flouncy pink ribbon, Monson, flanked by Utah dignitaries, cheered, “One, two, three—let’s go shopping!”
Watching a religious leader celebrate a mall may seem surreal, but City Creek reflects the spirit of enterprise that animates modern-day Mormonism. The mall is part of a sprawling church-owned corporate empire that the Mormon leadership says is helping spread its message, increasing economic self-reliance, and building the Kingdom of God on earth. “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints attends to the total needs of its members,” says Keith B. McMullin, who for 37 years served within the Mormon leadership and now heads a church-owned holding company, Deseret Management Corp. (DMC), an umbrella organization for many of the church’s for-profit businesses. “We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”

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.”

Would love to help but as you can see, the Bretheren have spent up.
Maybe next year.
Kind regards
J. Christ
Mormon

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From an LDS.org article on Jeffrey R Hollands recent trip to Africa...

He {Jeffrey R. Holland} mentioned a principle often taught by the 13th President of the Church, Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994). “President Benson always said we don’t so much take people out of poverty or take them out of difficult settings as much as we teach them the gospel and they lift their eyes and their vision and they make their own way out of poverty. That principle is true.”

http://www.LDS.org/study/prophets-speak ... a?lang=eng

He seems to managing Africa's expectations in terms of when they might see a share of the widows mite in line with that spent in Salt Lake City...

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Quote:
The 20 retailers along with the previously announced anchor tenants comprise about 30 percent of the available retail space at City Creek. When the project opens, it will bring about 2,000 jobs to the local economy

Didn't most of those companies just move in from other parts of SLC?

[_harmony]

And as usual the anti-mormon mind cannot understand basic human nature, reality, facts, etc.

1. Mother Teresa and Christ did their work "intentionally".... Further, they were supported by others. A poor person does not "intentionally" make themselves poor, or their family poor.

2. A poor person, who's worrying every day where their next meal will come, or how to feed his children, his LEAST priority is going to be "valiancey" in the Gospel of Christ. He may be good, he may have belief in God, but his priority's most often than not will be on surviving.

A human being must first "survive"..... Spiritual and Gospel things are going to be some of the last things on their mind.

Further, as an Atheist or whatever you idiots are, should be well familiar with the concept.
You see no value whatsoever in the spiritual, you are only focused on the "Temporal".

Thus, what you quoted above is entirely right. The Church has shown over and over again, as well as history, that when you improve a mans temporal life, you help increase his spiritual life, because he is THEN able to spend more time and effort in that endeavor. Someone just trying to survive is much less inclined to spend time and energy on other things. It's a proven fact.

My experience with the concept of poverty is first hand. Been there, done that, have the scars. I find it a slap in the face for a man in an expensive suit to even comment on the spirituality of the poor, of which he obviously knows nothing.

Spirituality is not predicated on money. Virtually all my life, the poor have manifested dignity, humility, integrity, and faith on a much higher scale than anyone in an expensive suit.

City Creek Mall is a monument to both the stupidity and hypocrisy of the Brethren. May it haunt them every day for the rest of their lives.

[_Drifting]

My experience with the concept of poverty is first hand. Been there, done that, have the scars. I find it a slap in the face for a man in an expensive suit to even comment on the spirituality of the poor, of which he obviously knows nothing.

Spirituality is not predicated on money. Virtually all my life, the poor have manifested dignity, humility, integrity, and faith on a much higher scale than anyone in an expensive suit.

City Creek Mall is a monument to both the stupidity and hypocrisy of the Brethren. May it haunt them every day for the rest of their lives.

This.

[_Kishkumen]

Mormon 8

  37 For behold, ye do love money, and your substance, and your fine apparel, and the adorning of your churches, more than ye love the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted.
  38 O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites, ye teachers, who sell yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the holy church of God? Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ? Why do ye not think that greater is the value of an endless happiness than that misery which never dies—because of the praise of the world?
  39 Why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life, and yet suffer the hungry, and the needy, and the naked, and the sick and the afflicted to pass by you, and notice them not?