Hey how will Mitt Romney explain?
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ChesusRice
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Classic conservative move
write a check for 100 bucks
put it in the collection basket
get 75 bucks in change from collection basket
write off 100 dollar donation on taxes
Did you hear the part where Romney is Required to donate 10% or lose church membership?
write a check for 100 bucks
put it in the collection basket
get 75 bucks in change from collection basket
write off 100 dollar donation on taxes
Did you hear the part where Romney is Required to donate 10% or lose church membership?
ChesusRice
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Tithing always comes first in Mormonism. Any member who is struggling in any way (job loss, broken down car, depression, etc) will always be counseled to pay tithing in order to receive blessings. All blessings, privileges and callings in the LDS Church are centered around tithing. Without paying a full tithe, a member cannot be a “member in good standing”.
Mormons are required by Commandment of God to pay 10% of all their GROSS income to the LDS church. This includes all income, including, employment, social security, Medicare, food stamps and trust funds and any other form of income, even including finding money on the ground.
The Church Of Jesus-Christ of Latter-Day Saints brings in an estimated 6.5 to 7.0 billion dollars a year in annual tithing revenues. The Church refuses to disclose to the public or its members how much money it receives annually and what those funds are used for. Because the LDS Church is a tax-exempt organization, it does not have to publicly disclose financial books.
In 2005 the LDS Church purchased two shopping malls in Downtown Salt Lake City for $500 million dollars. The Church plans to spend $1 to $3.5 billion dollars renovating them. In official statements from LDS Church, the Church claims that not one dollar of member tithing funds went into the deal.
Mormons are required to attend a Tithing Settlement with the Bishop each year. A member is questioned in a one-on-one interview with the Bishop to ensure the member is paying a full 10%. Those members who are not paying a full 10% loose their temple recommends and are prevented from entering the Temple.
Mormons who loose their temple recommends are in serious jeopardy of loosing their Celestial blessings. A Mormon who does not pay tithing cannot enter the temple. If a member cannot get into the temple, the member cannot learn the secret handshake, secret password, secret "new name" and special “sealings”. Without these, the member will be unable to pass Joseph Smith and the angels who guard the entrance to the Celestial Kingdom.
Mormons are commanded that tithing must come first before anything else. Utah has the highest rate of bankruptcies in the United States. Mormons often are told "I cannot pay my bills until I've paid my tithing." Mormons will even pay their tithing rather than give the money to a relative who is on the verge of eviction. Mormon published magazines (Ensign, New Era) constantly stress that tithing must always be paid.
Recently, Mormon Senator Orrin Hatch passed legislation that allowed members to pay a full tithe even while they were in bankruptcy court. (See S. 4044).
Mormons are told: "if a destitute family is faced with the decision of paying their tithing or eating, they should pay their tithing." (Lynn Robbins, General Conference, April 2005).
Mormons who have not paid tithing will be denied a temple recommend and will be considered "unworthy". However; Mormons who pay "back-tithing" (some as much as $5000 or more) are instantly found to be worthy and can receive their temple recommends back once the money has been paid. The Mormon Church uses this as an extortion method when it comes to temple marriages. Parents or family members who have not paid tithing are required to pay back tithing - sometimes in the thousands of dollars - which must be paid before a temple recommend can be issued in order to see their own children married.
Mormons are further threatened that if they do not pay a full tithe, they will be burned with fire when Jesus Christ comes again. Mormons see Tithing as "fire insurance".
Mormons who claim that tithing is purely "a personal choice" are deceiving themselves and outright lying.
Mormons are required by Commandment of God to pay 10% of all their GROSS income to the LDS church. This includes all income, including, employment, social security, Medicare, food stamps and trust funds and any other form of income, even including finding money on the ground.
The Church Of Jesus-Christ of Latter-Day Saints brings in an estimated 6.5 to 7.0 billion dollars a year in annual tithing revenues. The Church refuses to disclose to the public or its members how much money it receives annually and what those funds are used for. Because the LDS Church is a tax-exempt organization, it does not have to publicly disclose financial books.
In 2005 the LDS Church purchased two shopping malls in Downtown Salt Lake City for $500 million dollars. The Church plans to spend $1 to $3.5 billion dollars renovating them. In official statements from LDS Church, the Church claims that not one dollar of member tithing funds went into the deal.
Mormons are required to attend a Tithing Settlement with the Bishop each year. A member is questioned in a one-on-one interview with the Bishop to ensure the member is paying a full 10%. Those members who are not paying a full 10% loose their temple recommends and are prevented from entering the Temple.
Mormons who loose their temple recommends are in serious jeopardy of loosing their Celestial blessings. A Mormon who does not pay tithing cannot enter the temple. If a member cannot get into the temple, the member cannot learn the secret handshake, secret password, secret "new name" and special “sealings”. Without these, the member will be unable to pass Joseph Smith and the angels who guard the entrance to the Celestial Kingdom.
Mormons are commanded that tithing must come first before anything else. Utah has the highest rate of bankruptcies in the United States. Mormons often are told "I cannot pay my bills until I've paid my tithing." Mormons will even pay their tithing rather than give the money to a relative who is on the verge of eviction. Mormon published magazines (Ensign, New Era) constantly stress that tithing must always be paid.
Recently, Mormon Senator Orrin Hatch passed legislation that allowed members to pay a full tithe even while they were in bankruptcy court. (See S. 4044).
Mormons are told: "if a destitute family is faced with the decision of paying their tithing or eating, they should pay their tithing." (Lynn Robbins, General Conference, April 2005).
Mormons who have not paid tithing will be denied a temple recommend and will be considered "unworthy". However; Mormons who pay "back-tithing" (some as much as $5000 or more) are instantly found to be worthy and can receive their temple recommends back once the money has been paid. The Mormon Church uses this as an extortion method when it comes to temple marriages. Parents or family members who have not paid tithing are required to pay back tithing - sometimes in the thousands of dollars - which must be paid before a temple recommend can be issued in order to see their own children married.
Mormons are further threatened that if they do not pay a full tithe, they will be burned with fire when Jesus Christ comes again. Mormons see Tithing as "fire insurance".
Mormons who claim that tithing is purely "a personal choice" are deceiving themselves and outright lying.
londonfog
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I put that puppetmaster on ignore awhile back. Man can't be a man has to change and become something else.
Canna Sylvan
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I totally understand. It's probably way more intimidating with family that are Mormon than it is with mine and their meat eating. My family knows I'm vegan but still bugs the shit out of me. Everyone, including my children, ate waffles, except me. I even offered to make the waffles but my vegan food is apparently poison. Because there is only a 12th of an egg and only a tablespoon milk per waffle, I need to stop being such a picky eater. After dinner they had cupcakes with eggs and milk. I again got a comment how my diet is stupid because I can't even have a harmless cupcake.
The only way I can tolerate them all is eating a gram and being high off my ass for six hours. Just imagine the bullshit a Mormon family does. I don't think even weed would help me with that.
londonfog
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I have no beef ( pun not intended ) with Vegans..Hell I would love to taste some of the things you create. I just hate the ones who won't wash there freaking hands in public washrooms because of the soap. That is something you can change..
Thinking someone is lower then you because of the color of ones skin is retarded and gives me GREAT pause as to why I should even considering voting for you.
londonfog
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Guy I really don't have problems with most religions...but when one tells me that I'm lower then another because of the color of my skin. I say fuck that religion and those who would defend that shit.
Now again what is it Mitt is going to do to help you...I for one don't need his help. I'm good
The Mormon church owns over 100 Multinational enterprises, including Albertsons and Six Flags. They also own over 35 Radio stations and several banks. Not to mention that University called BYU.
Chances are you unknowingly give them your money all the time.
Did you know that not everyone in Utah was a Mormon? so the bankruptcy rate says nothing about the Mormon church, just helping you to see the critical thinking skills it takes to make it in life.
Its a nice copy and paste from an author who knows jack shit about the Mormon Church, way to show the ignorance a human is capable of.
ChesusRice
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And you would think the author a former Mormon would know jack shit about the Mormon church
Steve Benson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. editorial
cartoonist for The Arizona Republic. Benson is the grandson of former U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture and LDS prophet Ezra Taft Benson