Wonderful for Utah! Now please be charitable and take Romney back!!!
Okay, I’ll go here. Lots of churches do lots of good things. But they are also social clubs for a lot of communities that would be taxed where they not under religious cover. Tithing to the Mormon church is not necessarily predominantly “charitable”.
Cult!
In before the ususal @ssholes.
Great.
Note that members of mormonism fill out a report each year to determine their worthiness.
Don’t meet the criteria, no temple recommend. No temple recommend, no eternity in the presence of God, no future godhood for themselves...
When I lived in that area, Mormons were REQUIRED to give 10% of their income to the Mormon Church. To be in good standing(Temple Worthy) you had to bring in your tax forms as proof.
Required giving is not volunteer giving.
I call BS. Mississippi has historically been one of the most charitable states and now is in the bottom five?
This reminds me of an old joke in Mark Twain’s Library of Wit and Humor about a black man who no longer went to church.
Whey asked why he no longer went to the African Episcopal Methodist Church he said...
“I and my family went there, and I gave lots of money to the church, and the members called me ‘Brother Brown’”.
“Then my wife got sick and I had to give less as the medicine cost so much, and the members called me ‘Mister Brown’”.
“Then my wife died, and my children got sick so I could not give any money to the church. The members then said ‘There’s that old N——a Brown!” so I quit them”
Hey if you don’t like it take it up with Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Utah is the closest red state to me unless Arizona is still considered red. Nonetheless, I would never live anywhere in Utah—and that’s not because of the cold weather or the lack of Italian restaurants.
got in 3 car accident in utah once- and the folks were very accomodating and pleasant- being from a different state that would just as soon spit on a stranger as look at them, i wasn’t used to that-
Later i learned it was smack in mormon country- they have some mandate that they must be charitable from what i understand? part of rising through hte ranks in the church or something
...with residents there giving the highest share of their income to charity.
Maybe true, but Mormon’s are mandated to give nothing less than 10%. Anything less, and you are a scrub.
So here goes.
Most figures I can find on the 'net say that the percentage of Mormons in Utah are somewhere between 60-70%.
The LDS set of Temple Recommend questions asks:
10 Are you a full-tithe payer?
If you answer this with anything but a 'yes'; you are NOT allowed into the(any) temple until you obey the LDS law about tithing.
"So; big deal", say Mr. Jack Mormon; "I can live without ever going into the temple."
While this is true; there is a tiny GOTCHA! when you croak!
You'll end up in Heaven with Baptists and Catholics and folks like ME!!!
HEAVEN-The Mormon church teaches there are three levels of heaven (three "degrees of glory"):
I wonder if the “charity” is part of the donations demanded to be in good standing with the Mormon church?
.... with residents there giving the highest share of their income to charity ( to each other)
Yeah, they gave us Senator Mitt Romney.
Charitable to what organizations? Forced tithing to the Mormon cult?