Slick Arguments Against Financial Transparency

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_cwald
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Re: Slick Arguments Against Financial Transparency

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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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_Meadowchik
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Re: Slick Arguments Against Financial Transparency

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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!
_Dr Exiled
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Re: Slick Arguments Against Financial Transparency

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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.
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Re: Slick Arguments Against Financial Transparency

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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?
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Re: Slick Arguments Against Financial Transparency

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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.
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_Mormon 8
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Re: Slick Arguments Against Financial Transparency

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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.
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