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Mormon Church accused of misleading members on $100 Billion fund
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It's just so audacious when you think about it. Religion has always been a scam. This is just out and out blatant though. Guess there's some elders living in mansions with private jets and an endless supply of coke and hookers.
Reminds me of this little diddy several years back:
Get them whips out
Get them whips out
I'm shocked that a cult made up by a con artist almost 200 years ago has continued to con its members out of their money.
this guy is going all in. I hope he wins the reward money...
"In a declaration signed under penalty of perjury, Nielsen urges the IRS to strip the nonprofit of its tax-exempt status and alleges that Ensign could owe billions in taxes. He is seeking a reward from the IRS, which offers whistleblowers a cut of unpaid taxes that it recovers."
"In a declaration signed under penalty of perjury, Nielsen urges the IRS to strip the nonprofit of its tax-exempt status and alleges that Ensign could owe billions in taxes. He is seeking a reward from the IRS, which offers whistleblowers a cut of unpaid taxes that it recovers."
Gonna need to give themselves a raise to afford that.
I mean, the median church (in America) has about 75-80 people. It probably gets enough in offerings to pay for a pastor, maybe an assistant, maintenance and upkeep on their building, then the surplus into charity efforts. As gross and disgusting as modern American mega church culture is, they're not all that representative of the average church.
Anyway, as per the topic at hand - that's horrendous. I don't even understand their defence theologically. Jesus returns and you need money?
If anything Jesus would trash all organized churches with all their accumulated wealth that they aren't using to help the poor and downtrodden.
My mom is going to have a field day with this one. My family will still ignore this and blindly follow the cult.
No, but I doubt it would change anything. They're more delusionally dedicated to the church than they are to republicans, which is saying something since my Mom just told me yesterday there was nothing I could say to change her mind about her conservative beliefs.
One of my exes was Mormon and her family still is. It was a trip going over their home. I felt like I was walking on eggshells the entire time. Thankfully she got out a while ago. Sorry to hear about your parents.
i still remember getting a call from them... wish i called them out on their shit, but instead i just gave them a sarcastic response assuring them i would be voting on it while leaving out whether i was for or against it. For all the good that did :\
One of the things even as a kid i thought was weird, was they were really adamant you were suppose to give 10% of your entire pay check, even before taxes. And if you didn't well... that was better then nothing, but god knows what your cheap ass did so dont expect to get your full blessings or w/e.
I left the church as soon as my Mom couldn't force me to go anymore (about 10 years ago) and I'm still dealing with the social anxiety living in that environment gave me. I still love them, but I have a feeling if I cut my family out of my life I'd actually have a much healthier state of mind (something I don't admit lightly).
They do, it's in the heart of salt lake, it's called City Creek. This never happened to anyone I was with, but I heard stories from others that if women were dressed in a way showing too much skin, they would get asked to leave by mall security.
What's truly vile in this story is they make a profit of $1 billion! A BILLION! And they STILL ask their struggling, indebted poor members who can barely make ends meet to fork over 10% or they cannot go to the temple. My gf at the time was buried in debt, and she would always pay her $300 tithing when she could have paid her debt instead. She kept picking up more and more debt.. still in debt.
Yeah she struggled with that too. The exmormon subreddit was a big resource for her. Whatever you decide I'm sure it'll be hard.
It's in the article. Mormons donate a crazy amount per member compared to Catholics.
Mormons = $7 billion collected per year from 15 million members
Catholics = $8 billion collected per year from 170 million members
100 billion dollar bribe to Jesus to just turn right around on his white horse and come back in another 10,000 years.
they are stockpiling to form their own nation out of the 4 corner states?
I took a tour of Temple Square in Salt Lake City and I was talking with the tour guide who was a Mormon. I googled the trucking company he owned and it was worth over $50 million dollars and he was only a tour guide...that's when I truly realized the Mormon religion was a scam.
Can't wait to hear my friends and family, rube Utahns, who support the fantastically immoral con Donald Trump and Greaseball on two legs Mr. Bain Capital Mitt Romney, how this is just the devil trying to deceive us.
Literally what they say when confronted about things, after they complain about immigrants stealing from us and an inept federal government wasting their money, they do and pump it in to this "church"
Good hell it angers me.
Literally what they say when confronted about things, after they complain about immigrants stealing from us and an inept federal government wasting their money, they do and pump it in to this "church"
Good hell it angers me.
The ""religion"" that was started by a conman(who also committed many other crimes) swindled people out of their money?
Oh my god no way...
Oh my god no way...
I always say to myself how do conservative people live together. It must be a race to who can grift the other the fastest.
Jezus is all about that Gucci, Ferrari and custom Italian suits.
Didn't you read the bible?
You need a golden parachute for when the DC-8's drop all of us into volcano's.
