Mitt gives $7 million a year to the Mormon Church. I wonder if these isolated critics contribute at least 10% of their earnings to the church they profess to speak for.
“Mitt gives $7 million a year to the Mormon Church. I wonder if these isolated critics contribute at least 10% of their earnings to the church they profess to speak for.”
1. To qualify for Temple Recommend, active mormons are required to pay a 10% tithe, plus fast offerings, plus callings, which translates to free service to the cult in any capacity mormon leadership say the holy ghost has ordered you to perform. If there is a dispute over whether a mormon has fulfilled his duty in this regard, it is not unheard of for a bishop to ask for W-2s. And then the holy ghost may speak through him and say you have a calling to clean the toilets, and give his nephew a job. Oh, and bring ten pounds of ground round to the church picnic. Denying a calling is Not A Good Thing.
2. If a mormon is disobedient in these or a host of other matters, and is denied his Temple Recommend, it means he does not have the Masonic hokey-pokey in hula skirts performed that magically open their Celestial Kingdom version of the Pearly Gates when he dies, in the afterlife he will be separated from his family members, and he will never be a God and get to create his own human beings he can personally mind-f*ck with mormonism and throw lightning bolts at, mormon wives don’t get to follow their God-Husbands to Planet Kolob (following him twelve light years behind) ;^)
By the time you’re dedicated enough to mormonism for the TR to even matter, obeying tithing, offering, and calling requirements is no longer so much a choice, but a pillar of your world, without which, you lose your godhood, your salvation, your life, all your friends, and for some people their business contacts, or their job. I can give you links to a Mormon professor who lost his job at an LDS school because required for the job was a mormon with a temple recommend, he lost his TR over a tithing/offering dispute, and lost his job, became a Christian and published all.
If Romney is where he is in the mormon hierarchy (and he is) then his “giving”, isn’t really charity as it’s commonly understood. It’s more the cost of doing business.
BTW crime story aficionados who have studied how the Mafia has a chain of money and “favors” running up the chain of command may identify remarkable similarities...
Just Sayin’... ;^)