In an interesting article about how the rich pay their tithing I came across the following...
The Larry H. and Gail Miller Family Foundation has given the church $5.6 million during that time frame, the tax records show. The family owns a slew of car dealerships, movie theaters, the Utah Jazz and Vivint Smart Home Arena.
In an email, Amanda Covington, a spokeswoman for the Larry H. Miller Group of Cos., said the foundation has not contributed tithing to the LDS Church. “The Miller Family Foundation contributions to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are to support the research for the Joseph Smith Papers project, not tithing,” Covington wrote.
That massive undertaking has researched and published manuscripts written by or at the direction of Mormonism’s founder. The Miller Family Foundation’s tax records show it gave $2.34 million toward the project. Another $3.3 million in contributions were made to the Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and labeled as “GENERAL FINANCIAL SUPPORT.”
It's worth reading the full article for other reasons.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
From most Larry Miller was dynamic, go-getter business man, bigger than life, worth mult hundreds of millions. However he never took the advice of his sons to fix his diet and weight because of diabetes and he died much to young after having had leg amputations from the disease.
i think he got hooked into funding the early Book of Mormon film project years ago which was either never finished or was a disaster.
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