Slick Arguments Against Financial Transparency
Re: Slick Arguments Against Financial Transparency
It's none of your business how the church spend it's money. Once you donate it, it belongs to the church.
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cwald wrote:It's none of your business how the church spend it's money. Once you donate it, it belongs to the church.
Suck it up, shut up, and sit down!
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These funds are sacred, anything done with them is sacred, and therefore it is too sacred to tell anyone about sacred investments, sacred credit card payments, sacred 2nd home purchases, or any other sacred expenditure His most holy church decides to do. It is that simple.
So, sit on it or sit by it or suck it members and other inquiring minds. The Lord God in heaven deems you unworthy creatures and reminds you of how you just might be thrown into eternal economy class where there will be eternal poor service and tasteless airplane food if you continue to pry into his Holy Hedge Fund.
So, sit on it or sit by it or suck it members and other inquiring minds. The Lord God in heaven deems you unworthy creatures and reminds you of how you just might be thrown into eternal economy class where there will be eternal poor service and tasteless airplane food if you continue to pry into his Holy Hedge Fund.
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Moksha wrote:On the other hand, if the LDS Church routinely offered financial disclosures, the Board of a Thousand Denials would regard such disclosures as an act of holy obligation.
Great point Moksha. How many times in the last 50 years have lds condemned other churches for having a paid ministry? So far B. Crockett has only had to put up with a mere fraction of of that, of calls for transparency, and he's already grown tired of hearing it?
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.
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Funny how when God was poor, He made sure everyone knew it, but now that He is rich God's investments are too sacred to share.
"In God We Trust", but everyone else has to go to tithing settlement.
"In God We Trust", but everyone else has to go to tithing settlement.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
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cwald wrote:It's none of your business how the church spend it's money. Once you donate it, it belongs to the church.
It's not a church, it's an obscenely wealthy real estate corporation masquerading as a religion.