Frivolous. So she had a crisis of faith and blames organized religion for it. Next, they’ll come after the Roman Church. They got a whole city full of secrets!
It doesn’t matter if it’s the LDS or the Catholics or Baptist. Common sense says No Refunds.
Caveat emptor
Lots of whack-a-doodle and often fanatical cults sprang up in upstate New York in the latter part of the 19th century. They used to call it the "burnt over district". Mormonism is just one of those that has somehow managed to survive.
Anybody know what "reformed Egyptian characters" are?
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I know this thread will be full of anti-Mormon comments, and while I certainly don’t agree with the Mormons on many things, my advice to conservatives is to think twice before you go backing these suits in general just because you disagree with Mormonism. Yes, there are allegations of misleading people with regards to appropriation, but there’s also a lot of disagreements over the accuracy of religious statements and church history mixed in, and suing over tithing is a slippery slope that can involve ANY religion given the views of secular authorities and institutions when it comes to history and the accuracy of religion.
As for the Huntsman involvement, of course it would be someone from that family doing this. I note he says that if he wins he will give the money to LGBT and racial charities. That’s code for leftist charities.
Gaddy came to be deeply troubled by what she saw as similar dismaying misrepresentations, according to her lawsuit, over the church’s translated Book of Abraham and over Smith’s own character, leading to a crisis in her faith.
Then find a new faith. Islam has some openings for suckers as dumb as she is!
I’m not a Mormon and I don’t believe Joseph Smith was for real, but if you seriously expected that the seer stone would work for you probably missed the point of your religion.
Consider your Mormon tithes as “sunk costs”. Then investigate the Orthodox Church, including visiting a local parish (probably after covid restrictions go away).
You may be pleasantly surprised!!!!
When can I sue the Fed government for my existential crisis being forced to pay into a contractual system which no longer respects its core teaching and values of liberty and justice for all?
It would seem that if it could be proven that the “church” uses coercion to extract funds from their members they might stand a chance of prevailing. With Mormons, as with so many of the cults, your only hope to getting the ultimate prize is in giving major bucks to the organization - so, they use fear to threaten them with their very salvation (which they likely do not have at any rate unless they were led to the Lord earlier by a soul-winning, Bible-believing church where they were sealed for all eternity by the Holy Spirit. Yes, that is once saved-always saved.
I’m a “Recovering Methodist”. All we used to do, way back when I went to Church, was sing hymns and pass collection plates.
The mormons have deep pockets. This lawsuit will last longer than a decade.
There was many books written covering “troubling” topics of Mormonism long before the internet existed. Once the internet became popular, there has been “anti-Mormon” sites and discussion forums along with orthodox counterparts and apologetic sites in abundance. Anyone who is just now shocked or dismayed failed in their due diligence a long time ago.
She tithed willingly.
Salvation Army will not give back the money I dropped in their kettles over the years nor would I ask.
You want to stop doing it fine. But no take backsees