I’m sorry but are you really that daft? Can you (and every Mormon) not realize you have been led astray by your leaders? If I knew my church was building malls and apartments and buying property for business with my tithings I would have to question what they believe. Do they worship God or mammon? You call yourself a Christian but cant seem to follow the 1st Commandment of God. We will pray for your soul and all those who are being led away from Christ.
Is the LDS Church transparent as to where the money goes?
Absolutely not. Regular members are not given the numbers of how much money is brought in at the ward or stake level. Nor are they told where the money goes or what the budget it. It gets less transparent the higher up you go.
I think if you were to dive deep into the early history of the Mormon church, especially into Joseph Smith in particular, you would feel differently. There are two histories out there–the romanticized version put out by the church itself, and the real stuff painstakingly documented by historians who were willing to go wherever the history took them. I say you would feel differently because that is the experience of so many former Mormons who decided at some point to investigate for themselves “the rest of the story”-- the stuff you never heard in Sunday school.
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Chris, the lds are taught to look away from all this. Whatever is said is either a) opinion or b) anti-Mormon (even though the things we show them come from their own leaders
). And they like to throw past “prophets” under the bus a lot too if what they said isn’t good enough or contradicts their present teachings. Kind of makes you wonder about why they stay lds.Oh I’m well aware of how this goes. I know how Mormons are discouraged by their leaders from reading anything that might be “anti-Mormon” (which is unofficially defined but universally understood to mean anything contrary to their message and/or from outside the official church-sanctioned material).Chris, the lds are taught to look away from all this. Whatever is said is either a) opinion or b) anti-Mormon (even though the things we show them come from their own leaders
Oh I’ve heared almost all the acusations, read the history, and seen the posts on this site for many years. If anything I’m more certain of what I know.
I can only show you the history. If you choose to deny the facts, that is your choice. What you think you know and what is true are two different things. The facts of history don’t depend on you or me, they just are what they are, and the facts show that JS was a fraud. If he were alive today behaving in the same manner, you wouldn’t want your daughters anywhere near him.