Go online, look up Mormon Disaster Relief, Mormon disaster warehouses, Mormon help for Haiti, Indonesia, Japan, joplin, etc; The Church makes and delivers 20,000 tons of Atmit, an Ethiopian cereal to prevent starvation for the very old and very young. This is done every year for free. I am an 85 year old Mormon convert of 57 years. I have seen nothing but good come from this great organization. We have over 5000 church and Temple buildings around the world. ALL PAID FOR! Isn’t that terrible??
Perhaps ... but that doesn't change the fact that the LDS Church keeps its financial records top secret and thus nobody knows exactly how much the Church actually donates to benevolence.
As correctly stated by greyfoxx39, the Mormon Church is in reality a large business. And as pointed out by colorcountry citing this source, the majority of money and manpower is donated by members of the Mormon Church on behalf of the Mormon Church and is not contributed by the Church itself. And as correctly noted by T Minus Four, Mormon tithes are NOT “donations” ... they are necessary and must be paid in order to achieve the celestial kingdom and godhood.
This stands in stark contrast to Christian charities. For example, Catholics donate billions to their church every year and a large percentage of that amount is spent in running hospitals, schools, orphanages, clinics, soup kitchens and much more ... all without regard to (and in most cases even knowledge of) the recipient's religious beliefs.
We have over 5000 church and Temple buildings around the world. ALL PAID FOR! Isn’t that terrible??
Not necessarily. It only means that the LDS business model is financially successful. Nothing more and nothing less.
Lawsone, perhaps self-removal from being online may prevent further damage you're doing to the Mormon church...In fact, go open your FREEPMAIL box from all the Lds FREEPERS desperately trying to get your lips zipped.
Or...better yet...please don't go offline...The Flying Inmans may actually award you as "honorary Flying Inman" of the week -- so designated for the tremendous service you're doing in "officially representing" the PR Department of the Mormon Church!
Oh, and in your "spare time" from all the 'bot' posting you're doing...ya just may want to read this as your "devotional":
1Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 3But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: 4That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
(Jesus, Matthew 6:1-4)
I did not say that aid wasn’t sent.
Of course they have sent aid, and they advertise about on their news sites, they send out PR bulletins, they self promote.
I will say for the amount of money that SLC lds has, they do not proportionately give nearly as much as other groups.
From lds.org: The Mormon Church has donated more than $1 billion in cash and material assistance to 167 different countries in need of humanitarian aid since it started keeping track in 1985.
That is 27 years one billion dollars OR $37 million a year.
There is aid IT IS NOT as much as they promote themselves to have given.