I hope it's true, I hope next time the church collects over 6 billion in tithes and offerings. I am a firm believer in the paying of tithes and offerings, and not until 3 months ago did I start paying Tithing and it's been a blessing in disguise.

the Church does not disclose its books. I would not be surpised however.

From what I read The church gets over 5 billion dollars a year from their members (tax free) and it's said that 60 million goes to humanitarian reasons and 14 times that for buying business, building shopping centers, etc. It's also said the church has some 30 billion in holdings. One person put it this way. The LDS church is a 30 billion dollar Corporation posing as as a church. I don't know about you but if my money was used to make someone rich I would want a cut of the profits. You Mormons might not like this but take a good look you claim it's God's money but I think you are making the Council of Twelve rich. You seem to believe what they tell you

http://www.mormonstoday.com/020301/B4303Brief2.US.PA.Phil.shtml Care to read some proof?

Some guy by the name of Glenn got upset with my answer to you. The fact is there is some 12 million people worldwide that do donate 5 billion plus all of it going to Salt Lake. It’s also common knowledge the Mormon church invests millions of dollars in for profit businesses and it’s said this money comes out of the pockets of the members. That link shows that the Mormon Church is in for profit businesses. He wants more proof and I don’t feel like I need to prove anything to him and if he wants to take a look for himself he would see what is going on. Sad part is if you study different religions, TV ministers and the like the bottom line is money, we can see and hear and believe what we want. Example most people would agree physic hotlines are as phoney as a three dollar bill ( I even applied for a job on a hot line and I told them I wasn’t physic, they said don’t worry about it they would teach me. I said thanks I couldn’t knowingly cheat people) anyway people do believe to the tune of a billion dollars a year. Benny Hinn is another phony all the people he claims to heal not one documented case of him curing anyone. He claims to build orphanages and help many of the poor, noone seems to be able to find him helping anyone but him self. Look for yourself he lives in a mansion drives $60,000 dollar cars and has the people convinced to send him their last dollar to be cured. It goes on and on. I try to look at this stuff from a logical point of view but it all ends up the same they are able to convince people they are right and everyone else is wrong. On the Mormon side had many talks with Missionaries and without a doubt the keep to a scrip. I don’t have anything against what people believe but when I want some answers and they say pray about I take a deeper look. Some things that are stated by the Mormons we are right and everyone else is wrong, The Mormon Church is the only true Church and everyone else is Satan”s Church. They add that all scientific, archaeological and historical evidence is nothing more than anti-Mormon propaganda. I can’t help it I have too take a closer look. If you study both sides of the issue you come to a conclusion. Is it the real deal or is it not. If you want to know do a search for yourself and weight the evidence yourself. I’m not against the people but after 7 years of looking into different Religions there is much more to look at. I after looking at other Religions took a good look at my own and I cut out the middle man if you take things in context God didn’t say you have to buy your way into Heaven. There are some 4,000 Religions People believe the Mormons are right, some people believe the Johovah’s Witnesses are right, some believe the Seventh-day Adventists are right can I assume God spoke to all the founders of these different Religions to start their own Religion and rewrite history?. If you combined the tax free money donated to all the Church’s the amount would be staggering Greedy people in the name of God has turned him into a billion dollar business. You just can’t take anything for granted you have to take a good look at everything. People can think what they want but it’s all there all you have to do is look. If you think I’m off base forget it but if you have any doubts take a good look got nothing to lose. Start with you own Religion and dig as deep as you can. Spend a month and look around then tell me what you think. Peace

Ok, I’m driving myself nuts thinking about it. Here’s the point people can see and can hear but but they don’t know what they are looking at. Let me put it this way the sharks have us divided into groups and are eating us up one by one. Religion is only one part of it. Bush will go on TV and look you in the eye and tell you one lie after another. They have us split one group blames the Republicans other blames the Democrats, if you look past the BS you can see they both are at fault. We are fighting each other and can’t see past the front door. They have no idea that they protect whomever they think is right. The bottom line is who the hell do you think is screwing you??????? Listen to what people say we are right you are wrong. Spin around and take a good look at the whole picture. They are screwing us all and we can’t see it. They are telling you everyday the top 10% of the people own it all and the bottom 90% are getting screwed but here we are sitting like good little serfs going duh we want to see what Hilton is doing or Spears, whoever. You are not listening to what is going on. They are not telling you THEY DON”T WANT YOU TO KNOW! All I’m saying is look around if the info stands good if it doesn’t it’s bad. If you want to be right fine don’t make people prove it find out for yourself. You become a better and wiser person. Example by now you know many emails you get are scams. But you keep getting them why? Because there are still some people that don’t get it and when the get stung they raise hell. If you don’t know where the email comes from delete it your not going to miss anything people see a email that has a say bank logo on it and think it’s from the bank so the open the link and give them whatever info they want. WHY? Because they don’t listen. And they are too busy being right, believe me no one is right all the time. People hate to be wrong they are right fighters. Search scams now how many did you find? That’s my point Peace

I do believe that around $5 Billion is about 'right' for a estimate. Consider a 10% tithe of all the members - plus donations, it should be rather easy. I note many people question where the money is going. Please to note that the Mormons have community 'vaults' of food clothing, blah. Even non members in need can get a bag of food and clothing at least once from a local church. Further, the Mormons do have all of their churches to keep up, then there is the ongoing missionary work - those two guys on bikes riding down your street didn't just arrive in a flash of light, the church pays for part (in some cases all) of their transportation fees to the area they will do missionary work. Often in the industrialized nations the missionaries must also hold down a job and or school - however they need a roof over their head, clothes on their backs, food - if they are a student and not 'well off' the church gets their back. In 'abroad' missions to less fortunate countries, the church pays more for food, lodging, water, blah since getting a job is most likely out of the question or pays so little (compared to First world currencies) that it is close to nothing. Charity is done by the LDS. http://www.lds.org/ldsfoundation/welfare/0,7133,1325-1-9--cWELFAREPOSTER,00.html is the tip of the iceberg. Community services, not just in Utah, is done by the LDS. In all honesty they most likely are not pulling in more than any other organized religion - but they most likely ARE pulling in more per person since they do have a tithing rule - which is far different than passing the plate in throwing in a dollar or two.

All tax-free too?! - Well, did everyone get their money's worth? - ;-)