Most important Mormon value "working to help the poor?"

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_lulu
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Most important Mormon value "working to help the poor?"

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"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.
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Re: Most important Mormon value "working to help the poor?"

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Then again maybe there are reasons for a lot of poverty in the USA:

http://wreg.com/2012/06/13/memphis-man- ... -15-women/
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A church that spends 1000 dollars for commercial development for every 1 spent for the needy can not claim that its primary value is helping the poor.
It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener at war.

Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
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