YES. The LDS Church provides welfare support to millions of people on a day to day basis.
NO. The LDS Church doesn’t grandstand by opening soup kitchens just two days a year ... Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I guess that they simply leave the hypocrisy to others who are willing to grandstand two days a year.
.... after all, Christ said that when you do your alms ...let not your right hand know what your left hand doeth.
In other words .... you guys are demostrating your Christian Hypocrisy!
after all, Christ said that when you do your alms ...let not your right hand know what your left hand doeth.
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Is that why Mormons hold press conferences when they send 100 $600 shanties to Haiti ???
after all, Christ said that when you do your alms ...let not your right hand know what your left hand doeth.
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So are you saying that Mormons dont get tax refunds from their club fees to Mormon Inc ???
I thought part of the Mormon business was “tax exempt” ???
Please provide a link to substantiate that the mormon church provides welfare support to non-members...
I guess that they simply leave the hypocrisy to others who are willing to grandstand two days a year.
The mormon church has a patent on "grandstanding" its charitable work...including having members wear yellow tee shirts to flaunt membership when they show up at disasters.
There are thousands of Christian churches that provide for the poor and needy 365 days a year...to NON-members as well as their own who have no need to advertise.
Who could miss the Salvation Army?
Not so. The local churches support and coordinate with the local homeless shelters [or as you put it, "soup kitchens"] in my area year round. There are budgets within many of the local CHRISTIAN congregations to support this very thing to ensure that meals are ALWAYS available.
The support you mention about welfare has more to do with mormons receiving support than non-members, that's just the way it is. And you know what? After a certain amount of time [or amount of $$], the people are cut off from receiving the welfare.
About the hypocrisy, is that why the mormons feel compelled to wear those yellow shirts and have press releases and news conferences whenever they decide to help out?
YES. The LDS Church provides welfare support to millions of people on a day to day basis.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700009383/LDS-Church-sending-temporary-housing-kits-to-Haiti.html
The LDS Church doesn’t grandstand...
http://store.lds.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product3_715839595_10557_21150_-1__195951
NO. The LDS Church doesn’t grandstand by opening soup kitchens just two days a year ... Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I guess that they simply leave the hypocrisy to others who are willing to grandstand two days a year.
.... after all, Christ said that when you do your alms ...let not your right hand know what your left hand doeth.
You know this how?
Would you care to provide sources and links to support your contention that this is indeed how Christians operate? That they indeed don't help others throughout the year and that their Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners are just grandstanding? That they are indeed hypocrites in the way they relate to the poor?
13But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' 14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
Do you have a source for that claim.
The wards where ever I have lived ONLY serve their members.
In fact according to my lds family members, when a ward helps their own members, they (the lds members) are required to pay back the “charity”.
As far as the “grandstanding” claim, I have never seen a Christian church with a PR division, as does the lds group in SLC.