My church would NEVER EVER EVER ask or accept dental gold to build a building.
If you cannot afford to give, then they will not make you, or guilt you or even ask. Instead they would help you.
HUGE difference.
Night tarbaby.
Now we cannot judge with our first world eyes. Some people aren’t familiar with the 3rd world, but people there don’t have money. They have things.
If they paid with their chickens or cloth would that make it OK?
The story is an attempt to exaggerate and place the LDS in the worst light. I wouldn’t let anyone do that to you. Those people gave all they had and it caused no detriment to their salvation at all.
Protestants are good people, too (deluded on some things, but good for the most part). They deserve our love and compassion, not our rancor. Catholics also (I believe they’re Christians too). ;-]