Comments on: LDS Inc. owns .7% of Florida

By: Taryn Fox

Taryn Fox — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:05:33 +0000

“I can’t imagine anyone having a problem with the Lord’s Anointed, because I’ve been inoculated against empathy by the church of Jesus Christ.

Your obvious anger means you are wrong. Your apostasy means you are sinners, and therefore wrong. Maybe if you’d stop being wrong I would listen to you. Until then, fucking repent.”

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By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:27:42 +0000

Dusty, this is the way I think about it. Imagine a church where the pastor makes tons of money from donations and tithing from the membership. If someone in the church needs help, he helps them out, so he appears generous and giving. But the money didn’t actually come from him, it comes from the membership; he’s the administrator. It’s actually the membership that is generous and giving, and one would think they should have a right to know how much of their money is given out as welfare and how much the pastor keeps for himself.

Mormons basically just trust their leadership on money matters and don’t ask for financial transparency — how it’s invested, whether some upper level leaders get to tap into the “Church Bank” for capital for pet projects, etc. Meanwhile, non-Mormons and ex-Mormons look at this financial system and can’t imagine not having such transparency. We expect financial transparency from, say, the government that we pay taxes to. Like profxm said, maybe it’s all legit. But how is anyone to know?

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By: profxm

profxm — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:25:47 +0000

Dusty, you win. Everything on the ranch is perfect! The cows shit rainbows and they donate the pots of gold to poor orphans in Africa. Every orange weighs 1,000 pounds and is personally delivered, free of charge, to poor families who live off them for a month at a time. Everyone is happy. No one sins. It’s a mini-celestial kingdom.

There is no point discussing this further. In your mind, LDS Inc. can do no wrong.

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By: kuri

kuri — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:18:09 +0000

Obviously my guess is much much better.

Another unsupported assertion. Do you really not see the problem with the kind of arguments you’re making?

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By: Dusty

Dusty — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:16:21 +0000

You went to the gate. Big deal.

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By: Dusty

Dusty — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:15:41 +0000

So you went, but you didnt actually go? did you glean some powerful knowledge by pulling up to the closed gates?
The taxable value is not even close to the same thing as the market value, nor does it come close to the purchase price. You lead your readers to believe that if thats the value you place on the property, then thats what the church paid for it by saying they own a billion dollar piece of property. Its only a billion dollar piece of property when someone pays a billion dollars for it. Find what the church purchased it for, then try to make your point.

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By: profxm

profxm — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:12:19 +0000

Literally, the first f*cking paragraph says that I went to the ranch. Read the f*cking post!

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By: Dusty

Dusty — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:11:48 +0000

Kuri.
Obviously my guess is much much better.

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By: profxm

profxm — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:11:29 +0000

You didn’t read the post, did you? I said in the post that I went, but it was Sunday and they were closed for tours.

The cost is the taxable value, which was also made perfectly clear in the post. Why not actually read the whole post.

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By: kuri

kuri — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:10:55 +0000

Kuri, its easy to say that I have no evidence when you have NO evidence to the contrary. What do YOU think they do with the profits?

Your guess is as good as mine.

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