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Mormon church-owned company buys huge swath of Florida land
Orlando Sentinel ^ | November 7, 2013 | Kevin Spear

Posted on 11/08/2013 11:51:18 AM PST by greyfoxx39

Edited on 11/08/2013 11:53:11 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The Mormon church stands to own nearly 2 percent of Florida by completing a deal to buy most of the real estate of the St. Joe Co. for more than a half-billion dollars.

The megapurchase was announced jointly Thursday by a corporate representative of church, which owns the nearly 295,000-acre Deseret Ranches in Central Florida, and by the real-estate and timber business, which has built several communities along the Panhandle coast.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
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To: greyfoxx39

Huge Mormon Theme Park ping??


21 posted on 11/08/2013 12:25:32 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: greyfoxx39

And? You want to force them somehow to comply with your idea of charity? How much does the Roman Catholic Church, the UMC, the Unitarians, COGIC, the Cowboy Churches, 7th Day or the Greek Orthodox give to people not of their faith? And secondly, how is it my business, or yours? The old sayings “mind your own business” and “stick to your knitting” have a lot of wisdom built into them.


22 posted on 11/08/2013 12:26:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Ted Cruz/Sarah Palin 2016)
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To: driftdiver
He’s probably tell the unemployed to contact the church and see if they have cattle or timber jobs.

You don't understand the way it works at these places, do you?

Pretty much only the security people are paid employees.

Most of the rest come as retirees, etc. on a "mission" and pay the church to work in places like Florida. They have to pay their own way!

23 posted on 11/08/2013 12:29:25 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: greyfoxx39
What would Jesus say?

Perhaps that since St. Joe couldn't make a go of it, maybe the Mormon Church could, and continue its good works with the profits. Or maybe, it's a safety valve to move to remote swampy Florida if Utah gets old.

24 posted on 11/08/2013 12:30:19 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: greyfoxx39

There must be a lot of people so insecure in their faith that they attack a church for buying land in order to create jobs and feed people. What would you like the Mormon’s to spend their money on, EBT cards where you have three levels of markup in the supply chain or provide the food directly from the source at no cost?


25 posted on 11/08/2013 12:31:13 PM PST by hoosierary
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To: greyfoxx39

This land was acquired by the Port St. Joe Paper Company many years ago just to grow pines. They ended up with huge amounts of land for almost nothing.

They eventually realized they had more wealth in real estate than in making paper. They changed the name from The St. Joe Paper Company to just the St. Joe Company.

From what I gathered, this was their less valuable land. They held on to the parts near the beach etc. My GGrandfather did something similar by buying up land just for the timber. Now my Cousin owns a whole lot of land.


26 posted on 11/08/2013 12:31:37 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: Colofornian

Well darn, thats tragic. I mean for them to pay of their own free will is just wrong!!!


27 posted on 11/08/2013 12:34:46 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; greyfoxx39; All
And? You want to force them somehow to comply with your idea of charity? How much does the Roman Catholic Church, the UMC, the Unitarians, COGIC, the Cowboy Churches, 7th Day or the Greek Orthodox give to people not of their faith? And secondly, how is it my business, or yours? The old sayings “mind your own business” and “stick to your knitting” have a lot of wisdom built into them.

How 'bout heeding your own advice???

Here, let me quote you in order to apply YOUR OWN PERSONAL standards of expression to your own keyboard -- with only slight alterations...the part NOT in quotes:

"And? You want to force" Greyfoxx somehow to comply with your idea of "online "charity?" ... "And secondly, how is it" "your...business" re: what greyfoxx posts? "The old sayings 'mind your own business' and 'stick to your knitting' have a lot of wisdom built into them."

ALL: Here we have a rather dandy example of inconsistent, incoherent religious hypocrisy at play.

This poster wants GF to mind her own biz..and stick to whatever...all as this poster refuses to mind their own biz as to what GF is posting!!!

Pray tell, 2ndDiv...please tell us what could possibly have possessed you, based upon your personal standard you seek to impose on everybody else 'cept yourself, to scold GF as she "'businesses' away" when you have so much knitting tasking to accomplish as your recommended alternative?

What are we supposed to do, 2ndDiv? Believe what you preach, or what you practice?


28 posted on 11/08/2013 12:39:51 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian; All
Mormon church earns $7 billion a year from tithing, analysis indicates

"The Mormon church has no hospitals and only a handful of primary schools. Its university system is limited to widely respected Brigham Young, which has campuses in Utah, Idaho and Hawaii, and LDS Business College. Seminaries and institutes for high school students and single adults offer religious studies for hundreds of thousands."

The church has plowed resources into a multi-billion-dollar global network of for-profit enterprises: it is the largest rancher in the United States, a church official told Nebraska's Lincoln Journal Star in 2004, with other ranches and farms in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Australia and Great Britain.

"In contrast, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which had about 17 million members a year ago, appears to be getting a better return on investment: It builds smaller meeting houses and lots of schools and hospitals, and its numbers are swelling faster than the Mormons', said Stewart. The Adventists claim a million new members join annually, compared with every three years or so for the Mormons.

"The Seventh-day Adventists clearly have a much more expansive humanitarian project in terms of building hospitals and medical schools and schools and universities and long-term developmental infrastructure around the world," said Stewart. "It's paid off for them."

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I DARE any of you defenders of mormon charity to provide links to articles describing mormon charities that are NOT specifically geared to aiding mormon members.

How many soup kitchens are "feeding Jesus' NON-MORMON sheep" from the millions of dollars worth of food stored in mormon-owned and run storehouses?

Let's see some examples of why you think that half-a-billion dollars is better spent on adding to corporate mormonism's wealth.

29 posted on 11/08/2013 12:43:05 PM PST by greyfoxx39 (We can thank Mitt Romney for the present situation in our country. His feet are made of clay.)
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To: ansel12

So what? Nobody’s holding a gun to any Mormon’s head forcing them to stay in that church.


30 posted on 11/08/2013 12:43:11 PM PST by pgkdan
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To: Colofornian

How many Mormons molested you for you to have this much hatred towards that sect? My Lord, man, that’s all you do here! This is a conservative forum, not the I HATE MORMONS BBS.


31 posted on 11/08/2013 12:44:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Ted Cruz/Sarah Palin 2016)
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To: greyfoxx39
What would Jesus say?

Invest your 5 talents wisely.

32 posted on 11/08/2013 12:46:05 PM PST by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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To: pgkdan

LOL.


33 posted on 11/08/2013 12:46:17 PM PST by ansel12 ( Democrats-"a party that since antebellum times has been bent on the dishonoring of humanity.)
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To: Colofornian
What's with the huge font? Why don't you anti-Mormon crazies go start a mromon hating board somewhere else. Your nonsense is way past disgusting. Your hatred for these people is pathological.
34 posted on 11/08/2013 12:48:52 PM PST by pgkdan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
How many Mormons molested you for you to have this much hatred towards that sect? My Lord, man, that’s all you do here! This is a conservative forum, not the I HATE MORMONS BBS.

Deserves to be repeated. I am sick and tired of this sh*t!

35 posted on 11/08/2013 12:50:09 PM PST by pgkdan
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To: greyfoxx39
Let's see some examples of why you think that half-a-billion dollars is better spent on adding to corporate mormonism's wealth.

Example 1: It's not my money in the first place.

36 posted on 11/08/2013 12:50:49 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: flaglady47

They aren’t defending a Mormon, they are fighting a defense for Mormonism as a whole.


37 posted on 11/08/2013 12:51:09 PM PST by ansel12 ( Democrats-"a party that since antebellum times has been bent on the dishonoring of humanity.)
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To: ansel12
they are fighting a defense for Mormonism as a whole.

Is this based upon religious issues or financial issues (as this article seems to connote)? I'm confused.

38 posted on 11/08/2013 12:54:18 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: 1rudeboy

Sometimes it is best just to see the facts and draw a conclusion.
It’s not my place to tell the Mormons how to spend their money but I can offer an opinion.


39 posted on 11/08/2013 12:54:52 PM PST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: greyfoxx39

What might Jesus say:

“Don’t covet other people’s stuff.”


40 posted on 11/08/2013 12:55:21 PM PST by incredulous joe ("No road is too long with good company" Turkish Proverb)
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