You said:
“Meanwhile, it asks members in third world nations in poverty to sacrifice their gold fillings to build ugly temples.”
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Then you said/quoted:
“..how members of the church in Argentina felt so compelled to provide funds for the temple that ‘THEY’ (emphasis mine) actually gave their gold fillings from their teeth to the church.
Which is it? Did the church ‘ASK’ (as you stated) that they do that or did the people voluntarily offer?
“..an example of pushing people to the limit of unnecessary sacrifice.”
You mean like the little old lady that is eating cat food so she can donate her SS check to the Billy Graham Crusade or her neighbor who is doing the same to donate to Catholic Charities?
Yes, the Mormons are wealthy, as well as the Catholics etc. No need to be embarrassed by their worldwide humanitarian efforts.
Again, I must point out that I am not a Romney-Bot nor support his run for Presidency.
Tit for tat, channeling SD now?
Now you’re just parsing...as a mormon you should know that without a temple, those poor folks can’t take out their endowments, without their endowments, they can’t get sealed, without their sealings, they can’t attain celestial exaltation.
So, they may not have been “asked” directly, but they sure were compelled to believe that if they didn’t make such sacrifices, their eternal destination was very much in question.
There are many different ways to “ask” someone to do something.
SLC lds send 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(includes missionaries) 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.
You do realize it was a quote from the OFFICIAL mormon source that described it as
“..how members of the church in Argentina felt so compelled to provide funds for the temple that ‘THEY’ (emphasis mine) actually gave their gold fillings from their teeth to the church."I posted your own source so you couldn't say no one ever did that - as you implied when you called my claim idiotic.
Anyone objective (outside the cult) would have described it for what it was - the LDS Corporation, grown wealthy on luxury Hawaiian real estate and luxury malls, required mormon members in Brazil to pay for their own temple , or not get into the upper level of mormonic heaven.
No cultic pressure there.
As to your statement that my comment was idiotic, consider yourself refuted without prejudice. You were simply uninformed. I was simply stating what was true.