What would Jesus say?
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He’s probably tell the unemployed to contact the church and see if they have cattle or timber jobs.
Don't know, but I doubt it would be something in favor of redistributing income.
He’d probably be glad that somebody was buying land to put people to work in productive agricultural pursuits. I’m sure ObaMao is deeply disappointed because it could have been subdivided into more high-rise housing for all his illegal alien buddies. And apparently, so are you.
its funny to me that its not bigoted to say how much property is owned by Mormons. try inserting another religions name instead and see how that sounds.
“What would Jesus say?”
Since by your comment, you obviously didn’t take to heart what He said before, you probably wouldn’t understand It.
In Mormonism, turning over 10% of your gross annual income is required, or else you are restricted to the lower ranks of the religion and after life, you are literally forbidden entrance into the massive Temples, and are relegated to the plain building made for the average (non-10%) Mormons.
Joesph Smith’s religion raises a heck of a lot of money.
He’d say better the Mormon Church than the atheist government or a bunch of Muslim terrorists. And if they can invest their money, make more of it, and provide jobs then they’re being good stewards.
Jesus? Why are we bringing Him into this? Did the LDS organization violate any laws in this land deal? If not, what do you or I care what they do with their money? Didn’t that money come from offering plates within their congregations?
I don’t know what Jesus would say, but I say uipes! The Mormons already own virtually all of central Florida in their huge cattle ranch (second only to the King Ranch).
Might as well go after the RC Church the Episcopalians and some of the wealthier Protestant sects.
What’s your point, that we should take from the rich to give to the poor. Sounds like the regime.
From the tithing the Mormons have farms that out of work families can go to rather than live off the gubmit teat.
“Thousands of Americans are out of work and in need. The mormon church has 565 million dollars fron exempt tithing revenue to tie up the water resources and developable land, with profit$ in mind.
What would Jesus say?”
What would Jesus say about the rich televangelists, or the Vatican’s riches?
In the case of the Mormon church, I expect it will be directed towards good.
My ex-Mormon Dad said the Mormon church raised crops, and stored food, etc. in order to do good.
They intend to corner the grapefruit market!
Huge Mormon Theme Park ping??
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.
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?
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.
Invest your 5 talents wisely.
What might Jesus say:
“Don’t covet other people’s stuff.”