Text 2553, 58 rader
Skriven 2009-02-11 21:17:56 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 2499 av Ross Sauer (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Ok ENOUGH!
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Ross Sauer -> All wrote:
 RS> Ed, let's just drop the snarling back and forth.
 RS> Please?

What "snarling back and forth" are you talking about? Your charges of my being
a racist because of the perceived racism you think Joseph Smith practiced?

How can one sided attacks be "snarling back and forth?"

 RS> Can you show me the good your church does?

Yes, we ship 12 million tons of clothing to third world countries to cloth the
poor. We send millions of tons of food to feed the hungry. We send missionaries
to third world countries to teach the people to feed themselves through
sustainable crops.

The LDS Church, through the members in the area and volunteers around the world
are usually the first to enter an area where a disaster occurs and give food
and shelter to those stricken. The LDS Church sends teachers around the world
to teach business, horticulture and English so that third world countries can
better themselves.

Your claim that all churches do is demand money from its members is in error
WRT the LDS Church. Sure, members are asked to tithe and give donations to
carry on the many projects I listed above. Without money the Church wouldn't be
able to do the good it does.

Also, members are told to store a year's supply of food and other supplies for
themselves and their families. This can be done at a very low cost through the
well established Church cannery system which also supplies the Bishops'
Storehouses around the world. These storehouses are to help members and
non-members who are in need. I have worked at the local Bishops' Storehouse and
saw the many people who come in and leave with carts full of food enough for a
month in many cases.

The Church welfare system is second to none because of these things. The US
government has studied the LDS welfare system many times and have failed to
emulate it. One of our Church Presidents (Ezra Taft Benson) was Secretary of
Agriculture for President Truman or Eisenhower.

 RS> Ok?

Okay.

Ed

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