OK, this is from 5 years ago, but still....what a dick:
"More than 1,000 Cambodian Saints gathered that evening for a devotional, where Elder Oaks taught that if members have the faith to pay their tithing they will be blessed to work themselves out of poverty. He explained that 90 percent of their income accompanied by the blessings of the Lord was better than 100 percent of their income without the blessings associated with being a full tithe payer."
The LORD won't work them out of poverty--they'll work THEMSELVES out of poverty.
That's pretty arrogant for him, or any religious leader, including the pope....to go to a 4th world country and tell them that will not have poverty....-IF-........
This is what passes for normal inside the Mormon bubble.
The reason tithing works is that it makes you feel like you deserve blessings, and then blessings come. This way of psyching out your subconscious happens to be highly profitable. So, the idea of tithing as a practice doesn't bother me. The problem is that the attribution is manipulative. TSCC perverts whatever it touches.
This reminds me of an archived post (Pay up you lowly peasants). Faust went to Brazil and talked about the Porto Alegre Temple and how some of the saints willing gave up their gold fillings to fund it's construction. It's always the same thing with these charlatans! You need to pay through your teeth so that you can feel so very blessed!