Romney gave $4 Million donations to Mormon Church. Do Mormons help the poor with these donations?

January 24, 2012 | Ralph Mitchell

[mitchell001]

On his income taxes released today, we see that Romney gave $4 Million tithe donations to Mormon Church. Do Mormons help poor Americans with these donations? Do the Mormons have something similar to Catholic Charities, which helps thousands of Americans (both Catholic and non-Catholics) with basic life needs, medical help, childcare help, education help, etc. The main question is do Mormons use the $4 Million from Romney to ONLY advance the Mormon religion without helping the American poor. Does Romney even know or care what the Mormon Church does with his $4 Million donation? I think that is a fair question.

[Vigilanteman]

Do you think actual facts will change the minds of anti-religious zealots whose minds are made up?

While I'm not big on organized religion in general, I will be the first to admit that organized religions of whatever stripe do far more to help the poor than their secular counterparts which do nothing more than foster dependency as a means to perpetuate and grow their own bureaucracy.

We even had a gaggle of dim bulbs on one thread arguing that the Mormon welfare program was not charity because they expected those getting it to do some sort of work. That is about as stupid as arguing that Habitat for Humanity isn't a real charity because they expect the people getting homes to participate in building them. But you can't argue logically with bigots.

Even if xyz church only helped other members of xyz church, I'd still argue that it is a good thing, because there would be that many fewer people in line competing for government largess.

[lawsone]

Check on line for anything you want to know. The LDS Welfare program is primarily for the poor and needy of the Church. The Disaster Relief program is used to help people of all faiths world wide. Check Mormon Disaster help for Haiti, Indonesia, Japan, joplin, etc. Several hundred disaster relief warehouses, fully stocked, are scattered throughout the U. S. Atmit, an African cereal product for the very young and old is manufactured and shipped to Ethiopia each year(20 tons at no charge)to prevent starvation. Dozens of water wells have been drilled in Africa.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“The LDS Church (Mormon) Has a welfare program know world wide. “

Sure. It takes care of members first and foremost. To the degree it helps
those in need, it should be commended.

It uses just a small percent of the billions it takes in each year.
The rest is diverted to luxury Hawaii property, luxury real estate,
and other worldly investments to enrich itself and buy influence through
hiring PR agencies.

Meanwhile, it asks members in third world nations in poverty to sacrifice
their gold fillings to build ugly temples.

To the degree it does the two things above, its condemnation is just.

It spends lots of money to lead people away from the Gospel of Grace
in the one true God into a system of human worthiness and the worship
of many gods - condemning them to a life of never knowing the truth
that will save them from hell.

For this it is anathema. A white-washed tomb that hides the rot and bones
underneath.

[Track9]

Actually, FR is afflicted by moral self righteousness less than most places. It helps when people have a keen sense of Liberty and forbearance.

[stuartcr]

Good for them, very comendable.

[stuartcr]

I’m just speaking from what I’ve see here. The only other forums I frequent are gun forums.

[lawsone]

You might look on line to see how really menacing we are. Look for: Mormon disaster relief for Haiti, Indonesia, Japan, Joplin, etc. Check out mormon disaster relief warehouses, several hundred in the U.S. fully stocked for emergencies in all the world. All donations to these causes are by Mormons without solicitation for outside help.
Look up Mormon Welfare. You might be suprised!