Posted on 06/30/2011 12:33:48 PM PDT by Colofornian
“I am a Mormon, a full tithe paying Mormon”
Why do mormons always brag about paying tithes?
“and I had no idea how bad it is!”
Not uncommon.
“Thanks for enlightening me on how bad my religion is!!! I would have never known!”
Once you’re in, you have to agree with it all, or you are not supporting your leadership.
Flee while you can.
“U funny”
So your now your ham chuck ?
That you did not answer says volumes.
Other???
Mormonism is not a Christian organization.
No, you didn't. It's just what Mormons believe
Seems to me, there is only ONE Jesus Christ
I agree, that's why the Jesus the Mormons preach is not Jesus Christ
Excellent....Joseph Smith like!!
We need to know this now why?
Wow....you apparently know what is in the heart's of men!!! Unbelievable!!
One of three things is going on here...you are channeling Resty, you are both channeling Joseph Smith...or you both are horribly deceived. Which is it?
May the scales on your eyes melt away........
A much funnier thing is....you are employed by LDS, Inc..... but you don't get paid, you pay them.
It has nothing to do with Christianity.....
Calling ben!!
Where are you, ben!?!?!
LOL...that's hilarious.
Why do you don these tee shirts advertising your presence at a disaster?
And why does the PR machine immediately issue press releases boasting of mormon presence in every disaster?
Surprising Mormon Placemarker
Jesus didn't have a MBA, unlike the mormon apostles. He wouldn't make the cut today.
“the mormon church wasn’t in existance in the 1770’s?”
Heh.
Facts are stubborn things.
OK. I did some double-checking on my facts.
If your reference applied only to Lds bishops today as well Lds bishops of old, I'd say we both were wrong and we both were right.
The reason I'm partially wrong is that I made a reference to a potential $60,000 stipend paid in today's funds...and that isn't so...so I recant that claim as outdated. Stipends for Lds bishops at one time was so; not any more.
BUT...
But...
Since your statement focuses mainly on the 1980s and 1990s, I'm going to request that you apologize for calling me a liar about the way the Lds church previously ran its finances & stipends for bishops.
My understanding is that Lds bishops were still being paid a 10% "stipend" from tithing funds as of at least 1993.
Source: "Changes in stipends for bishops and general authorities. (Bishops once received a 10% stipend from tithing funds, but are now purely volunteer.)" [See History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]
I made the following claim on an Oct. 23, 2008 FR thread -- and I stick to it: LDS Bishops are indeed lay folks who receive no salary. But as of 15 years ago, I knew of a bishop who received $40,000 (in 1993 $) as a "stipend" for expenses. Now don't get me wrong, bishops indeed incur expenses for which they need to be reimbursed. But I would betcha, were you to have surveyed Protestant pastors and Roman Catholic priests in 1993, if they were incurring personally reimbursed expenses at a rate of $40,000 per year, and you would find the bulk of them were not. Steep stipends = a partial salary.
Since bishops at one time could take a 10% stipend from tithing funds, it would not have been unheard of for $400,000 to have come in for that year.
Since I apologize for using the potential $60,000 figure based upon outdated information, I expect a return courtesy for you calling me a liar when it's documented that Lds at one time paid bishop stipends.
Not only are you mistaken with how funds were once dispersed, but calling somebody a "liar" assumes bad or malicious intent. You are engaging in mind reading.
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