So I spent some time with the TBM in-laws recently and spied a copy of the Church News. I didn't want to actually open it so I just had a look at the back cover. It was a thinly veiled demand for money.

The "article" was about the building of the temple of Solomon or a Tabernacle or some other building in the Old Testament. The people were tasked with donating their resources and their talents to make it truly worthy of God. Well of course the people were so generous with their giving that they had to turn much of it away. That's where I stopped reading. I recognized it as a plea for money and then more money after that. If the ancients could be that generous then the current saints should be too. "Give us more then give us more!"

The obvious problem is that the Mormon church already has such a surplus of money that they are building a four billion dollar mall. Yet when have you ever hear TSCC say "Enough, don't give us any more"?


Stupid cult.

money out of their flock. After all, the pressure methods they've used in the past have produced results. Heaping guilt on the members to get them to give more of their time, talents and everything with which the Lord has blessed them is what the church does. Maybe it's more extreme in this economy but it's how they roll. What is sad is that people like my mom won't even flinch. They will just see it as a sign the second coming is near and that they have to be more sacrificing.

Jw's were once taught that Armageddon and the End Of The World was coming in 1975. Many faithful members sold up homes and businesses and spent the remaining years leading up to 1975 preaching full time.

The church leaders encouraged them to do so and praised them as examples of great faith.

Nothing happened of course. Those outside of the delusion knew nothing would happen.

No one got a refund, no one was subsequently helped by the Watchtower Society because of its prophetic last days failure and BS teachings. In fact the Watchtower Society put the blame on the individuals for getting 'carried away by their own speculations'! Many left soon after.

Amazing what delusion does to people.



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Yep, a friend's older family in the UK sold everything they owned and awaited the Raptor. It didn't come, and they lost all they had, but they stayed in the JW scam. Sad, but true.

is give the giver some kind of little trinket! Maybe they would get more $$$ if they used the marketing technique of the large mega churches. They LOVE to get money and GIVE out little plaques, books, etc.

The more you give to the LDS Church the more you get "dish pan" hands from washing out toilets!

Maybe they should give them anointed hankies or something.

... "this is not the time for you not to pay tithing"

This he said in context of the economic hard times. Last year. They're getting desperate.

Hey Stunted. Happy New Year!

We'll know they are really hard up for money when they start selling off their assets.

I think the members are getting conditioned even more to support "the church" as a centralized entity or idea, and letting their stakes and wards slip further and further into drudgery, homogeny, and going through the weekly motions.

The Mormon cult leaders are just learning the same lessons...

Catholics usually make much smaller donations and they are voluntary, people give whatever they feel like giving.

I have never seen anyone hounded the way I've seen in the morg. No tithing settlements for Catholics LOL.

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> Catholics usually make much smaller donations and
> they are voluntary, people give whatever they feel
> like giving.
>
> I have never seen anyone hounded the way I've
> seen in the morg. No tithing settlements for
> Catholics LOL.

That's true of the Church of England, too.

Perhaps TSCC needs to make up for the fall in tithing income from those who have seen substantial reductions in income and from those who are quitting TSCC? Plus all the construction deals Mr Hinckley got them into...