Posted on 11/08/2013 11:51:18 AM PST by greyfoxx39
Edited on 11/08/2013 11:53:11 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The Mormon church stands to own nearly 2 percent of Florida by completing a deal to buy most of the real estate of the St. Joe Co. for more than a half-billion dollars.
The megapurchase was announced jointly Thursday by a corporate representative of church, which owns the nearly 295,000-acre Deseret Ranches in Central Florida, and by the real-estate and timber business, which has built several communities along the Panhandle coast.
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Huge Mormon Theme Park ping??
And? You want to force them somehow to comply with your idea of charity? How much does the Roman Catholic Church, the UMC, the Unitarians, COGIC, the Cowboy Churches, 7th Day or the Greek Orthodox give to people not of their faith? And secondly, how is it my business, or yours? The old sayings “mind your own business” and “stick to your knitting” have a lot of wisdom built into them.
You don't understand the way it works at these places, do you?
Pretty much only the security people are paid employees.
Most of the rest come as retirees, etc. on a "mission" and pay the church to work in places like Florida. They have to pay their own way!
Perhaps that since St. Joe couldn't make a go of it, maybe the Mormon Church could, and continue its good works with the profits. Or maybe, it's a safety valve to move to remote swampy Florida if Utah gets old.
There must be a lot of people so insecure in their faith that they attack a church for buying land in order to create jobs and feed people. What would you like the Mormon’s to spend their money on, EBT cards where you have three levels of markup in the supply chain or provide the food directly from the source at no cost?
This land was acquired by the Port St. Joe Paper Company many years ago just to grow pines. They ended up with huge amounts of land for almost nothing.
They eventually realized they had more wealth in real estate than in making paper. They changed the name from The St. Joe Paper Company to just the St. Joe Company.
From what I gathered, this was their less valuable land. They held on to the parts near the beach etc. My GGrandfather did something similar by buying up land just for the timber. Now my Cousin owns a whole lot of land.
Well darn, thats tragic. I mean for them to pay of their own free will is just wrong!!!
"The Mormon church has no hospitals and only a handful of primary schools. Its university system is limited to widely respected Brigham Young, which has campuses in Utah, Idaho and Hawaii, and LDS Business College. Seminaries and institutes for high school students and single adults offer religious studies for hundreds of thousands."
The church has plowed resources into a multi-billion-dollar global network of for-profit enterprises: it is the largest rancher in the United States, a church official told Nebraska's Lincoln Journal Star in 2004, with other ranches and farms in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Australia and Great Britain.
"In contrast, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which had about 17 million members a year ago, appears to be getting a better return on investment: It builds smaller meeting houses and lots of schools and hospitals, and its numbers are swelling faster than the Mormons', said Stewart. The Adventists claim a million new members join annually, compared with every three years or so for the Mormons.
"The Seventh-day Adventists clearly have a much more expansive humanitarian project in terms of building hospitals and medical schools and schools and universities and long-term developmental infrastructure around the world," said Stewart. "It's paid off for them."
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I DARE any of you defenders of mormon charity to provide links to articles describing mormon charities that are NOT specifically geared to aiding mormon members.
How many soup kitchens are "feeding Jesus' NON-MORMON sheep" from the millions of dollars worth of food stored in mormon-owned and run storehouses?
Let's see some examples of why you think that half-a-billion dollars is better spent on adding to corporate mormonism's wealth.
So what? Nobody’s holding a gun to any Mormon’s head forcing them to stay in that church.
How many Mormons molested you for you to have this much hatred towards that sect? My Lord, man, that’s all you do here! This is a conservative forum, not the I HATE MORMONS BBS.
Invest your 5 talents wisely.
LOL.
Deserves to be repeated. I am sick and tired of this sh*t!
Example 1: It's not my money in the first place.
They aren’t defending a Mormon, they are fighting a defense for Mormonism as a whole.
Is this based upon religious issues or financial issues (as this article seems to connote)? I'm confused.
Sometimes it is best just to see the facts and draw a conclusion.
It’s not my place to tell the Mormons how to spend their money but I can offer an opinion.
What might Jesus say:
“Don’t covet other people’s stuff.”
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