It takes a lot of money to own and operate large buildings, pay people to work for the church, and operate events for churchgoers. > Any church run as a business should not be considered a church at all.Ĭhurches are always businesses. The conveniently don’t use that quote anymore.Īnyways, this is all very fresh in my mind so these are my rantings. At one point a prophet also said that the law is only for those who have means to pay. It’s been alternatively interpreted as 10% of any investments, or 10% after all other expenses are paid. In the Doctrine and Covenants, it says “one tenth of their interest annually.” Interest is not the same as income. there are different ways to interpret the original revelation about tithing in the church. I expect this from businesses, not from the church who asks their members if they are “honest in their dealings with their fellow man” regularly. obviously, hiding behind shell companies. By all means, hoard emergency supplies, but what are you going to do with your Facebook stock when governments have collapsed? There are two phases to the Second Coming, calamities/Armageddon, then Jesus comes to fix everything. they claim to be saving money for the Second Coming. They’ve earned so much against the dangers of social media, it feels really hypocritical. they own, or at least during the leak they owned, tons of stock in Facebook and other big tech. What? I don’t have a problem with the mall on its own, but the irony is overwhelming. So what does the church do with tithing? They build an expensive shopping mall right next to their sacred temple and headquarters. Any Mormon can tell you about the “great and spacious building.” It’s a story from the Book of Mormon about materialism or worldliness distracting you from finding the love of God. the church preaches against materialism. People are out there deciding whether to pay bills or tithing, while the church sits on this hoard. members are encouraged to pay tithing before all other expenses. I see some saying the church can do what it wants with it’s money, I want to explain why I don’t think it’s ok. As a recently disaffected Mormon, let me tell outsiders a few reasons why I think this is a huge issue.
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