(May 5, 2015 at 11:40 am)Neimenovic Wrote: *raises hand* throw them in a lake of fire?
They don't believe in the lake of fire. At least not the one in the Jack Chick comic books where the tormented souls are thrashing around in a pool of flaming kerosene. It'd have to be the "telestial kingdom" instead, where the wan glory is less than that of the moon. But hey, it beats eternity at the U of U burn ward.
(May 5, 2015 at 2:28 pm)robvalue Wrote: It seems like a fine line between fraud, and coming up with some garbage religion which then earns you money...
That's right about on the nailhead. And never a better salesman for the 1830s "digger era" was there, than Joseph Smith Jr. with his sidekick Martin Harris. Since the LDS Corporation's books are secret, no one knows how much it's worth today; NBC News cites an analysis stating their annual income from member tithes as $7 billion. But they own a lot of companies like Beneficial Life Insurance and KSL-TV as well, from which funds flow in.
(May 5, 2015 at 5:23 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I lived in Utah for a mercifully brief period and I had that same thought every time I opened the newspaper which had a whole religion section devoted almost entirely to LDS.
Ahh...the famous Deseret News, mouthpiece of the Church, but the largest paper in Utah is the Salt Lake Tribune, a decidedly non-Mormon affair. Both papers are going down the drain I think. They've shrunk to just a few sheets on most days and no longer have full in-house local reporting.
