The promise of blessings and lack of incineration aside Utah ranks as the third poorest state in the union and has among the highest per capita instances of bankruptcy and business failures. In addition to tithing Mormons also: 1.) Marry and have multiple children that they are not financially prepared to support and discourage two income families (even when there is clearly a financial need), 2.) waste hundreds or even thousands of dollars on food storage schemes in preparation for the second coming of Christ, 3.) spend tens of thousands of dollars and two years of their pivotal early life (when they should be beginning their education or learning a skill or trade) on "missions" usually to places in the US that have far less financial need than their own impoverished corridor. Incidentally the origin of sending nineteen year old boys on missions to the civilized world was during the polygamy period when it was necessary to dispose of all the young men so that the young women could be taken (often forcibly) into the harems of older members. The Church sells itself as providing a happy, healthy lifestyle but it is like the story of the Emperor's New Suit. Did anyone in the crowd think to yell "hey he's naked, look he's got a birthmark on his butt in the shape of a banana"? No, because that would mean that they were unworthy to see the emperor's suit and no one would admit to that.