“However they do not knock on doors offering any “help” at all... No food, no clothing no anything... They are after 10% of the door owners income however...”
What utter bullsh*t...
I’m not Morman, nor do I want to be, but I know the morman canneries do far more to help the poor, than many of the so-called “Food Kitchens” and federal programs do.
And they do it without fanfare, and media cameras around pronouncing how ‘good! and Caring!’ they are.
I’m not Morman, nor do I want to be, but I know the morman canneries do far more to help the poor, than many of the so-called “Food Kitchens” and federal programs do
What utter BS. If you think you can back that up, post some sources for the statement. FYI, members are told many times when applying for aid to contact the government agencies first.
Those mormon boys are not offering help, they are telling Christians they are abominations and only lds are the true church.
Source for your claim.
I have mormon family and friends and they will tell you very little of their food storage goes to anyone but mornons and they are required to pay it back.
If your are required to pay it back, it is not charity.
No fan fair hahahahah SLC lds have on of the biggest PR machines in the country.
“And they do it without fanfare, and media cameras around pronouncing how ‘good! and Caring!’ they are.”
You are entirely wrong. Everything the Mormons do is about converting persons to Mormonism. The example you mentioned above is one. There ARE strings attached.
Now do other religious (even true Christian) bodies give to woo in converts. Yes, of course. However, the Mormons are even more sinister in the way they do it.
So many times I have seen persons unwittingly sucked into Mormonism because they needed charity. The Mormons were ready to give it.....but the missionaries coming by were part of the deal. There is NO altrulism in Mormonism...just suck more fools in to go to hell with them.
Maher, is only wrong in the sense that he doesn’t understand that giving to a “tax exempt” religious body is “charity” under the law. However, he is right to call Mormons a cult. Although, it isn’t because he has orthodox beliefs...he hates ALL religious bodies.
Stop DEFENDING ROMNEY ON FREE REPUBLIC! This is a Romney free zone. Ask Jim Robinson, the owner.
Sorry...this is a completely ludicrous statement.
This is ludicrous from a sheer budgeting and Mormon numbers' angle.
Of the 14 million Mormons, up to almost 9 million of them are either jack Mormons or are not your "weekly" Mormons. That takes the reality that 1.7% of the U.S. is Mormon -- and knocking that down to about .75% of the U.S. who are active Mormons...and are oft more overwhelmed than your avg. religious person due to the lay callings, temple rituals, genealogical research, and larger families that make up active Lds clans.
Of those 14 million Mormons, about 1.75 million are in Utah. (Utah has over 2.8 million pop; and 62.2% are Lds) So I would say almost 1/5th of active Mormons are based in Utah. They have marginal coverage in many states...and 21 canneries in the Eastern United States. Outside of Utah, Lds, Inc. has 73 canneries in the U.S....that's an average of less than 1.5 cannery per state (minus Utah). Source: http://www.providentliving.org/location/map/0,12566,2026-1-4,00.html
There's no way -- with the $ that the feds throw @ programs -- that a scattered Mormon approach averaging 1.5 canneries per state can even come close to matching the feds, especially when you take a closer look @ the locations of these canneries and see that many are missing from obvious key urban areas all over...
Oh, sure, you can easily conclude that the Mormons get more bang for the buck...are more efficient...and may even -- per cannery -- do better than the average fed-funded food kitchen...but so what? You're indicating privately-run programs beat out a fed bureaucracy probably every time?
Duh. If that's what you meant to say, to win the weekend Captain Obvious award.