I was imagining the next time the missionaries come around. I want to ask them if their church wants my money. I already give 10% to local charieties and causes and have made commitments to them. Do I need to give that money to the mormon church to go to the highest kingdom?

Since when do you need money to get to heaven?

So in order to get baptized, I have to promise to give you 10% of my income? Wow that seems worldly.

Do you have a less expensive package? What can I get for 5%?

Do you have like a one year money back guarantee? You know, so I can try it out and see if I like it?

So it is all about the money. Next time just honor my "no soliciting" sign and don't tell me it is not about money.

So you have a message of christ and that message is I have to give 10% to live with jesus.

Why don't you go find someone more gullible? Good bye.

When I got my endowments I was unemployed so I didn't have to pay tithing to get to the highest kingdom.

I found the loophole! lol

Apparently that's not an excuse anymore. A relative of mine is in the process of going on disability and is paying 10% on their cash assistance.

Face, meet palm.

Once I asked the bishop if I needed to pay tithing on child support. He said if the father didn't already pay tithing on the money then yes I should pay tithing on it.

So messed up.

so if you tithe to a different religion can you still get to the highest level ?

I always wanted to bring a cow and chickens to church on Sunday and hand them over to the bishop then walk away. When I first read about tithing back in the durable goods days, I wanted to do it that way. Not with federal reserve notes.

And you totally could since income is only _generally_ expressed in monetary terms. Technically wouldn't have _have_ to give the cow and chickens since they count as assets that you gained? I'd enjoy seeing the look on everyone's faces.

I wonder how many TBMs have tithed cash and later found out the bish was mortgage scammer or Ponzi guy.

I would not trust these people with a library book, let alone cash.

They don't need those library books with all the lies and science and stuff. They just need your money...because that is so christlike. I mean, like all the other churches grubbing for money.

The members sure don't think so. My mother as an example-


Here she was fixed income, poor money manager and at the end of the year she would have to come up with tithing on her meager retirement.

I think she went into debt a couple of times to pay up. She had raised all four of her children to pay tithing ( well, except for her one black sheep...me.). Served in numerous positions, served a mission in Nigeria of all places. Converted her husband. Given her all to the morg- Yet, she felt like a failed sinner because she couldn't come up with the 2 grand . She felt like her place in the celestial kingdom was at stake. What a horrible thing to hang over an old woman.

"Pay up or you will never see your children in the next life."

This is where you see the evil greed at its worst.

The Borg could if they wanted, give a pass to people on fixed incomes under x amount or offer a sliding pay scale based on ability to pay. But No!- then everyone would want the same deal.

Money grubbing cult.

Tithing does not get you to heaven in any form. Especially to a cult that gives no accountability of where the money goes. Especially to the poor & needy as Christ taught. If it goes to a corporation that is in a for profit business = it is a dead loss. Your love for your fellow human being and helping them will fill the bill of getting where you go go. Read or hear a lot of near death experiences will give you a clue. I personally help charities that help people and in fact I run one locally.

I have never given anything to any church...and I imagine I'll go 6' under just like the rest of my family...

Baptism does not entitle you to the Celestial Kingdom. Temple endowments are required, and you need a recommend for that. No tithing, no recommend. It doesn't matter how loving, charitable, unselfish or forgiving one is; if you don't pay your 10%, you're not allowed into the temple, neither the top tier of "heaven".

At one point I was unemployed and on food stamps. I was living on help from my parents. My daughter was going on a mission and wanted me to go with her to the temple. I met all the requirements save one. You guessed it--I wasn't paying tithing. That's when the cracks in my belief came raging to the surface. The Mormon god wanted my money to be admitted to their heaven. Good god! When I bring this up to Mormons, they fail to see the irony and discrepancy of their beliefs and what Jesus taught. I suppose they think that if I had been more "faithful" I wouldn't have been unemployed.

That is why they all have to have on a happy face so their peers don't think they are sinning. My sister married and divorced a nonmormon. Her life was miserable. Probably because he couldn't stand all that mormon @#$%&. Now she is married in the temple and her life is better. See, the church is true. Not.