Elder Neil L. Andersen wrote:
We want to help in every way we can. We are not a wealthy people but we are good people, and we share what we have.
In other words, we don't have the money to help you with your water problems. I'm afraid that what money we have needs to go to the white and delightsome people in Oklahoma and other whiter places in the Lord's vineyard. The 120 billion is NOT for the negros! Sorry. You'll have to pray to Jesus that some other church can help you. But we Mormons aren't forking over our money.
That comment from Andersen is an embarrassment. How utterly dishonest.
“We are not a wealthy people” is a lie.
“And we share what we have.” This is stretching the definition of “share” to its most ludicrous breaking point. Families go without for generations to pay their tithing, and the LDS church STILL threatens and cajoles to get more, only to hoard the results. It’s despicable.
The Mormon Church will become a Christian church once it starts acting like a Christian church.
Given it’s a business first and foremost this may be a long time coming.
And will be proven only after they give the widow's mite. ALL of it.
The Mormon Church will have to take all of the 120 billion and give it to the poor in order to prove they are Christians. Then, only then, will they find a place at the Christian table.
Mentalgymnast, I think the LDS Church should be praised whenever it does something good.
I am concerned with how you combined praising the Church with an attempt to put something else down. Grinding an ax should have its own separate thread to avoid detracting from that which is being praised unless the praise was just a ruse.
To be fair, the organization that you’ve linked to above likely isn’t a Church with a stated mission to “help care for the poor and needy”.
I’d be interested in knowing whether the secularists here that complain about how the church laser focuses its contributions to those in need have the same view towards other religious institutions that also step up in times of need.
And as an aside, whether they, the non-church goers and/or secularists, have alternative ways/avenues that they contribute to those same needs.
For example, let’s say that IHAQ has a total net income of a million dollars a year. He gives 10 thousand dollars total to charities that contribute specifically to those in need of personal temporal salvation of one sort or another. One per cent of his income. Anyone going to diss him for that?
Probably not. I wouldn’t.
Although, truth be told, wouldn’t it be nice if he gave a hundred thousand dollars?
Through the church’s Humanitarian Fund we are able to, as members, make contributions that we know will go towards those in need. It’s an awesome program. And that doesn’t include what can be done with Fast Offerings.
Let’s spend less time dissing churches and more time giving them kudos for what they do to help others temporally.
Time to open your checkbook and make another contribution to the Church. Check the boxes on the donation slip. Make it hurt your budget and show your faith.
Double, and triple your donations -- you fool.
I want you to waste your money. Give it all to the Church for all I care. Let your family go hungry. Suffer.
Give the Church all your money! Then we can laugh about how broke you are!!
