[greyfoxx39]

Pleasee go preach to the free lunch revile

The only part of that statement that makes any sense is "free lunch"...it appears that mormons believe that if one doesn't pay the coerced tithing in the required amount of 10% to the mormon church, one is looking for a "free lunch"...just another "I'm superior" idea by members of the corporation claiming to be a church that is led by businessmen rather than theologians.

Council on the Disposition of the Tithes

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The Council on the Disposition of the Tithes (also known as the Council on the Disposition of Tithing) is a leadership body in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, composed of the First Presidency, the Presiding Bishopric, and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The Council determines how the tithing funds of the church will be spent. The Council oversees revenue, investments and expenditures valued at billions of dollars per year.

While the Church employs an independent auditing department which provides an annual report to the Church^[1], it has not published full financial reports since 1959.

The Council was established by church founder Joseph Smith, Jr. on 8 July 1838.^[2] As of April 2009, the members of the Council are:

• Thomas S. Monson, President of the Church  University of Utah. BA Business management
• Henry B. Eyring, First Counselor in the First Presidency Doctorate in Business Administration, Harvard Business School
• Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency  started studying engineering at 18 but later continued in Business Administration in Cologne, Germany, graduated from the International Institute for Management Development,Lausanne, Switzerland.
• H. David Burton, Presiding Bishop  University of Utah, BA economics, MA Business Administration from the University of Michigan
• Richard C. Edgley, First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric BS, political science from Brigham Young University, MA business administration from Indiana University
• Keith B. McMullin, Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric ??
• Boyd K. Packer, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles  Doctorate in educational administration from BYU, 1962
• L. Tom Perry, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles  Graduated from Utah State University in 1949 with a B.S. in business.
• Russell M. Nelson, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Medical Doctor with specialty as Cardiac Surgeon.
• Dallin H. Oaks, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles  Brigham Young University in accounting in 1954, and the University of Chicago Law School in 1957.
• M. Russell Ballard, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles  Prior to his call as a full-time Church leader, Elder Ballard had interests in the automotive, real estate, and investment businesses.
• Richard G. Scott, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles George Washington University, BS in Mechanical Engineering.
• Robert D. Hales, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles received degrees from the University of Utah and Harvard Business School.
• Jeffrey R. Holland, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles  MA in Religious Education from BYU. Yale University, Ph.D in American Studies
• David A. Bednar, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles BA in communication, MA BYU in organizational communication, Doctorate in organizational behavior from Purdue University
• Quentin L. Cook, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Utah State University , BA in political science, Stanford Law School
• D. Todd Christofferson, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles BA from Brigham Young University,  J.D. Duke University School of Law
• Neil L. Andersen, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles  MBA degree, Harvard Business School.

[svcw]

So much for helping “the least of these.”
lds really do not understand ‘tithes’.
Ok, they don’t understand the Bible at all.

[restornu]

.... you sound much like the antis who murmur about the capitalist because they hates big oil!

But do the anti capitalist hate big oil I say they covet big oil like they did to GM and a few others they have up their sleaves such Wall Stree and banks etc..

[Tennessee Nana]

The only part of that statement that makes any sense is “free lunch”...it appears that mormons believe that if one doesn’t pay the coerced tithing in the required amount of 10% to the mormon church, one is looking for a “free lunch”.
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That “free lunch” part reminds me about the mormon leaders and their families that used to look down from the Penthouse at the top of the SLC morg building and poiunt and sneer at the peon mormon followers eating their sandwiches on the lawns during the mormon conferences...

Up in the Pentehouse the “worthy” were eating steak and lobster, a “free lunch” paid for them by the mormon faithful they were mocking..

Does that still happen ???

[reaganaut]

Pleasee go preach to the free lunch revile

This is a perfect example of how the LDS 'play' at being Christians. They go through the motions, they say the right words, but they really, really do not get it. They are like 5 year olds playing house.

Because Christians are not under the COMPULSION to pay 10% gross income like the LDS are (if they don't they are looked down upon, not considered 'worthy' and not allowed in their temples) the LDS ASSUME that Christians believe in a 'free lunch' or don't pay tithing.

We have seen on this board the statement from the LDS and ex-LDS that tithing to the LDS is 'paying their fair share' and that attitude explains the 'free lunch' comment. They will also 'testify' (as we have seen here) that paying their compulsory tithing gives them material benefits. The LDS often connect 'living the gospel' with material wealth. The idea being that God will bless you financially if you are faithful in your full tithing, much the same as those who promote the Prosperity Gospel heresy.

Yet, once again, we see that the LDS JUST DON"T GET IT. God doesn't want or NEED our money. He wants our offerings of LOVE and devotion and tithing is one way of doing that.

Most Christians I know pay WAY more than 10% and give cheerfully, the way God wants it. They realize that IT IS ALL GOD'S MONEY, and we are blessed by having it in the first place. Christians give where we are led and as much as we are led and there is no one looking over our shoulder, asking us if we are paying it, or keeping track. Christians know our tithing is between US AND GOD, no one else.

This thread also clearly shows, as AMPU pointed out, that the LDS completely fail at basic reading comprehension. They will interpret passages as their leaders have told them to, not thinking about what the passage really says or the context. A&S were killed not because they didn't 'pay their fair share' but BECAUSE THEY LIED ABOUT THEIR OFFERING. It is a story about greed and deception, not tithing. But the LDS will insist that it is because that is what their leaders have brainwashed them to think.