Religions are for Making Money

Is it more money the Mormans want or converts? I don't know, but maybe the 15% they ask for (I've never heard that before) works out to 10% for the work of the Lord and 5% for maintenance on their property and to pay the staff. Also, if they're asking for the money, they're not requiring it from anyone. You give or not as you're moved. If a church only has a message to sell and nothing in the way of merchandise, how are they going to function or stay in business if they don't take up an offering?

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Why just pick on the mormans...How about every evangelical church that has services on TV on sundays. They try to fleece everyone especially the elderly. They have huge gaudy churches. The ministers are sooo fakey. They wear the most expensive clothes and shoes that they can find and the services are run like a three ring circus... It is not just for sunday anymore either...Many of these groups have TV shows that air daily...Think of the millions of tax free money rolling into their coffers...

There is no doubt television evangelicalism is a growing multi-billion industry in U.S., plenty of money can be make through on-air conversion and donation, it is a highly profitable endeavor with minimum investment capital and risks as far as religion evangelicalism is concerned. In order to pay for the air time during peak hour, those religion establishments you mentioned must have the financial clout to buy time slot in major tv channel for their fund generating religion empire around the world, it is a scam alright and had been goin gon for quite some time already.

I agree.

Well, as one of my professors told us, religion is a very good business. Sometimes, I think of the other religious people as deceivers. I do have a strong belief on what have instilled in me by parents and my church.

Hi Christoph, The Mormon church is not alone in this, most fundamentalist churches ask for 10% of a members income, which is what the LDS church asks, and not 15. There are preachers on TV every Sunday, and at other times as well, all begging for money. Religion should not be about money, but in many cases it is. Parents have been brainwashed and they take their children to church from an early age and they all think that they are doing right, but of course the children end up being brainwashed as well. I am not opposed to religion, if it allows people to have an open mind, and concentrates it's work on helping the less fortunate in society and offers comforts to those who need it. Some of the mainstream churches do a fairly good job. Blessings.

Well, I certainly agree with you on this discussion. Those churches ask for 15% of your income, and they would spend on what? Prosper themselves, and make them richer and richer. Those churches just plain out scamsters themselves. They use people's loyalty and religious believes to do their own good.

There are several issues here. Firstly the Mormon church is a pseudo-Christian sect, spun off from Freemasonry. They reject the two defining doctrines of Christianity: The Holy Trinity and Salvation by Grace - they claim to believe in these things but they redefine them to mean different things from what Christians mean by them. It's founder Joseph Smith Junior was a con-man and Freemason. Can't you just picture him making up this stuff about the golden tablets and magic spectacles and thinking, "What can I name the angel? Oh how about Moroni because only morons would believe this stuff!" I haven't seen these adverts and I can't comment on the reasoning behind them and if this gives the biggest bang for the buck. On a more general note, you can't do much without money and religious organizations, like everybody else, need money. A lot of people have double standards here and get upset when they see religions asking for money while they don't care if others do it. I think it goes farther and people get more upset with Christians than other religions. How much Arab oil money goes into Islam? What about Buddhist monks who are basically just glorified beggars? Mormons aren't Christians but they've conned a lot of people into thinking they are. I do agree that television evangelists have done a terrible job with shows that basically just ask for money and I think this is a big factor in the American church being in a total mess. In Alberta Canada, the union that represents provincial government workers runs TV adverts explaining what their members do with the tag line, "We're working people". I'm not at all sure what the point of these is and if I belonged to that union I think I'd be upset about how the union's leadership was spending my dues. Nobody AFAIK is complaining about this because it's not religious! It's normal and Biblical for a church to expect its members to tithe 10% of their income.

there are other religion using their fund to make there church much bigger..