"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.
Example 1: It's not my money in the first place.
I hear that the ARCHEOLOGY school kinda sucks though...
Too bad so many of them are headed to DAMNATION!!!!
"Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned;
and I will go still further and say, take this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord has given,
and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.
Brigham Young - JoD 3:266 (July 14, 1855)
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.
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AGAIN, WRONG. Get off your anti Mormon high horse.
The LDS CHurch has donated over 1 billion since 85 to humanitarian needs, in countries all over the world. This is not the welfare system for members, but strictly to suffering people, regardless of faith.
In addition, non mormons can and do participate in the local welfare programs. If you doubt it, visit one of the Bishops storehouses near where you live. Really, you might learn something. To coin your phrase “I DARE” you.
Bottom line, as stated by Joseph Smith:
“We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all.”