Posted on 03/15/2011 10:46:10 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
14 March 2011 — Salt Lake City
News Release
As the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami continues to unfold, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is assessing how it will best provide relief. News reports indicate that the death toll from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is nearing 3,000 and will likely continue to rise. The majority of casualties in Japan are expected to be from the tsunami rather than the earthquake. Tens of thousands more are homeless and millions are without power. The government of Japan has mobilized thousands of troops, planes and ships for a large-scale emergency response operation.
The Church’s First Presidency made the following statement regarding the disaster:
We express our love and support to the people of Japan as they deal with this terrible tragedy. Our prayers, and the prayers of millions of Latter-day Saints across the world, are with them as they begin to recover from this disaster.
Relief Aid
Communication and transportation is difficult in the most affected areas, but local Church leaders are currently discussing with government and humanitarian organizations ways to provide assistance.
It is likely Church members have been directly impacted by the quake, and local Church leaders are working tirelessly to account for them. Approximately 95% of the Latter-day Saints in the affected areas have been contacted, and initial reports indicate there are no confirmed deaths; however, there is limited information on the status of members from the most devastated areas.
Church Buildings
The Church has received several inquiries regarding the condition of its temple in Tokyo and can confirm that there is no significant damage to the building. While we know that some buildings have sustained varying degrees of damage, Church leaders in the affected areas are assessing the condition of other Church buildings.
These people are from families that are muslim, and they left when they accepted Christ as their Personal Savior. These are some of the most on fire, Spirit filled Christians I have ever known.
You can not be a Christian and also practice islam.
Nice list, gf, but I didn’t mean to imply that no other organizations were present in Haiti. There’s plenty of room for everybody to help out when such disasters strike. :-)
Really? It’s just a term they use. They could say Persian Christians, or Iranian Christians, or Iraqi Christians or Kenyan Christians...I don’t know it doesn’t bother me. When they are saying muslim they are not saying islamic Christians.
Perhaps. But you've underestimated the Mormon church PR machine.
Take Haiti last year, for instance. The Mormon church was highlighting all that it was doing, as if we should trumpeting the details of our almsgiving for all the world to see.
(Even then, 'twas a mere pittance of the billions they rake in every year)
Then I can’t help you.
You have no idea what the LDS church is doing, other than what was mentioned in the article. I know you want to believe that they have done nothing other than what was mentioned, but your assumption is incorrect. If you are willing to use Google, in the coming days you will find that the Mormons have been doing a lot more since Friday than what you can see in a press release.
I am convinced there is no low the anti-Mormon gang on FR won’t stoop to, to attack the LDS Church. It is beyond both absurd and pitiful.
An apologetic, totally at odds with the story it is trying to obfuscate and the testimony of those involved.
A large building is capable of holding more than a few government workers.
If such a structure cannot be a shelter in a storm, what good is it.
If the decision and resource allocation process is that deficient - to allow a government enitity to ‘take over’ the building without clearly specified conditions that the lds agree too further adds to the questionable nature of the apologetic.
Guess it is easier for the mormon church to spend 4 billion in a SLC shopping mall eh?
Apparently neither did the bishop of the chapel.
Sunday night, I saw a FR thread critiquing Obama's seeming care-free response...are you going to go into that thread and from the ease & comfort of YOUR computer chair, call those FREEPERS "tiny" too...or are you always that inconsistent? Is Obama's "efforts" to aid Japan unassailable?
Bitterness is so unbecoming...
What? Is that a magic pet rock, a urim & thummim, or a Magic 8-ball that gives you the ability to read complete strangers' inner emotions and/or motivations?
You're pretty sick if you think you have those kind of psychological abilities.
Not it at all.
The Mormons' track record, including Japan, is that they are ready to trumpet the Mormon church response to disaster. They've already done it.
The issue is simple:
(1) They haven't sat back & claimed to do nothing -- so nobody's bashed them for that...rather, for misprioritizing. (Have you always had problems reading plain English released on press releases?)
Therefore, you're badly misinterpreting the critiques.
(2) Their track record has NEVER been to sit back & not claim to respond to disasters. (So why do you keep harping on this strawman?)
So, since you don't seem to be able to understand plain english in press releases; and plain critiques, allow me to help you:
From the track record of the Mormon church's PR dept perspective, the Question has never been whether the Mormon church should promote their almsgiving or not. (They always have)
And from this last press release, the question on the table of this particular thread wasn't done to critique the Mormon church's supposed "do nothing" approach...because the Mormon church has done something.
They've looked after their own. Period. Or if this was a telegram, it'd read: "Stop."
Ok, then just to make you feel better I will ask them to stop calling themselves this and even to pay to change the sign on their church and only to refer to themselves as Christians. Will you feel better then?
So we are clear no matter how agitated you are by their name, mormonISM is still not Christianity.
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