Suppose that I give $200 that week to help the helpless, then give $50 at “church” for my tithe. Am I going to have to listen to some bishop tell me that I owe God fifty bucks?
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If you were mormon, yes, especially if he knew what you did for a living and what your wages should be (most common in Utah although in many states LDS hire other LDS so general income isn’t that hard to find out).
That bit is scary. Not to mention the other cult-like behaviour of the LDS, but if someone were keeping tabs on what I earned I would run, presuming I weren’t too far into the sham.
The more I read, the easier it becomes to see why people are trapped in the LDS. Because they really are just that: victims trapped into buying God’s favors. Sheesh. What a dilemma for the LDS followers. If they stop giving out of some need for necessity, then they are put further behind in their Planet Installment Plan.
It reads like the LDS are nothing short of a den of thieves who are repeatedly, as you termed it, “raping” their victims every payday.