Posted on 09/14/2010 8:05:06 AM PDT by Colofornian
Mormon folks in Utah have been fleeced of $1.4 billion over the past few years in affinity fraud schemes designed to exploit their connection to the LDS community and culture, according to news reports.
Oh, yes, we've all seen it. Or heard about it from friends and relatives. Ponzi schemes. Multi-level marketing. Miracle health products. Peddled to people who have been raised in an LDS culture that values insider status, kinship ties, hierarchy, and unquestioning respect for authority over critical thinking and skepticism.
A Mormon taste for the miraculous doesnt hurt either.
Fraud peddlers have been known to call down church membership lists and enlist returned missionaries fresh back from service and hungry for work. Their capital? Utah County, Utah, home to Brigham Young University, and the beating heart of the Book of Mormon belt.
A friend from a northern Utah farmtown remembers that her dad always said: If the first thing someone says when they introduce themselves to you is that theyre LDS, keep your hand on your wallet.
Sigh.
And amen.
;-)
The Lord never “commanded” anyone to tithe to the mormon church in order to be allowed to take part in phony rituals that are supposed to result in “covenants” that falsely bind Him to any earthly promise by any man.
I agree. In order to make your statement true you’d have to remove things like “phony”, “supposed” and “falsely”. =-)
Readers can make their own decision of the truth of my statement...and the truth of yours.
Not really a choice the moderately cognizant..
The Lord never commanded anyone to tithe to the mormon church in order to be allowed to take part in phony LDS rituals that are supposed to result in covenants that falsely bind Him to any earthly promise by any man.
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