Jealous?
No. (Especially of their destiny unless they cut shore their desire to compete with God as yet more gods in the universe)
What separates the Mormons from any other Christian organizations (besides the fact that “folks” think it isn’t Christian...) who invest their tithes into things, places and entities that produce income?
Please name me a Christian organization that is building a shopping mall? The closest thing I can think of was that theme park, Heritage USA in South Carolina from the 1980s -- complete with a luxury hotel -- that the corrupt Bakkers built. Heritage USA reached the level of the third-most frequented theme park in the country.
Per Wikipedia: Bakker "sold" more "exclusive partnerships" [in being able to stay @ the hotel] than could be accommodated, while raising more than twice the money needed to build the actual hotel. A good deal of the money went into Heritage USA's operating expenses... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker
Since I don’t pay attention to the holdings of which churches, and who does what with whom, and how much the Vatican owns, and how much the struggling little pentacostal churches don’t own, I don’t have to name anything.
Of course, if push came to shove, I might try to research it all, but it would have to be an extremely good day for me, since CFIDS prohibits a lot of info coming in at any one time.
I could care less about Baaker or anyone else who uses the pulpit to line their own pockets. Ninety-nine percent of the LDS churches leaders, in any capacity, are independently wealthy. They have to be: The LDS church does NOT pay them a salary.
So where is the the argument?
I’d like to know how much the Mormon church gives to the likes of Harry Reid?