Text 4307, 88 rader
Skriven 2009-04-09 16:26:18 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 4306 av Ross Sauer (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Moronic Cowards
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Ross Sauer -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 RS> "Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer" <1:123/789.0> wrote in
 RS> news:8406$HOLYSMOKE@JamNNTPd:

 RS>>>>> Ed can't.
 RS>>>>> He's a brainwashed cultist.

 GD>>>> The most amazing part of it is that he dismisses statements of
 EH>>   his GD>> fellow mormons as being in error.  Some of them are even
 EH>>   from the very GD>> top of leadership in his religion.

 GD>>>> He's got it bad to be led around like he is.

 RS>>> And Ed's gurus are laughing at him all the way to the bank.

 EH>> They are? Who would they be and how much do they get from me?

 RS> Do you "tithe?"

Yes.

 RS> The church leaders, the top ones, what is their salaries?

They don't get paid through tithes. They get paid through commercial
enterprises run by the Church for which the Church pays taxes. Tithing pays for
feeding and clothing the poor through the Church welfare system. Millions of
poor worldwide are fed and clothed by the LDS Church each year. The LDS Church
is also among the first to respond to help those effected by natural and
man-made disasters. That is where the tithes go. The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints is the only Church that does *NOT* have professional
preachers. Local leaders are *NOT* paid by the Church and are either employed
outside the Church in private business or are retired. The general authorities
are employed by the various commercial (tax paying) enterprises run by the
Church.

The Stake president for my Stake is my dentist and has a large dental office
here locally with several partners.

 RS> But I just read about how the LDS pulled the same shit the RCC did.
 RS> (2002)

What does this have to do with my paying tithes?

 RS> Synopsis: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is finding
 RS> itself the subject of lawsuits alleging sexual abuse. As with the
 RS> incidents within the Catholic Church, Mormon officials are accused of
 RS> knowing about the abuse, not reporting it to the police, and trying to
 RS> contain the information. NPR's Howard Berkes says dozens of lawsuits are
 RS> now being prepared against the Mormon Church. (8:11)

 RS> Narrator: Another lawsuit was filed this past week involving priests and
 RS> bishops and sexual abuse, but the suite does not target members of the
 RS> Catholic Church. This suite, and at least two-dozen earlier cases, named
 RS> the eleven million member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
 RS> The suites charge that Mormon leaders failed to protect children from
 RS> abusers. From Salt Lake City NPR, Howard Berkes reports.

Child abuse is an offense that brings excommunication. It is always reported.

 RS> http://www.kosnoff.com/CM/Articles/Articles103.asp

 RS> But even money you'll whine about who brought this suit.

Who brought the suit? I wouldn't know.

 RS> (Besides, on further research, the LDS settled out of court.)

Only one suit and it was settled out of court, but you still whine about it.

Try going on another tangent and make more silly claims about how the LDS
Church is getting rich off of tithes.

Ed

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restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every
break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs
that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of
rulers towards the constitution of a country."

--Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 25, 21 December 1787

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