Fence Sitter wrote:Peggy Stack article in SL Trib yesterday found
here.From the article.
For members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, tithing — donating 10% of one’s income to the faith — “is more of a sense of commitment than it is the church needing the money,” Roger Clarke, head of Ensign Peak Advisors, which manages the denomination’s investing holdings, told The Wall Street Journal.
“So they never wanted to be in a position where people felt like, you know, they shouldn’t make a contribution,” Clarke said.
Okay that makes perfect sense. They are hiding all this money just for the benefit of the members. They are just expanding what information they are hiding to help members from troubling history to include troubling financial information. Well, at least they are consistent.
It strikes me that this decision (to hide the wealth hoarding of the Church so that members felt the Church still needed their money) is both dishonest (using the Church’s own definition of Honesty, see below) and runs up against the doctrinal principal of Agency. The hiding of the wealth removed Agency from members. That’s Satan’s way of doing things, or so we are told.
That lip service to the principal of Agency can also be seen in how the Church has treated it’s telling of it’s History, in what it limits telling investigators prior to baptism, in child baptism, in that first Temple commitment. Was it Hinckley that said the Church has nothing to hide? Yet the Church continually and systemically hides everything it can. Milk Before Meat = the removal of Agency.
The Church’s definition of honesty:
Lying is intentionally deceiving others.
Clarke admits the Church intentionally deceived the members into thinking the Church still needed the money.
There are many other forms of lying. When we speak untruths, we are guilty of lying. We can also intentionally deceive others by a gesture or a look, by silence, or by telling only part of the truth. Whenever we lead people in any way to believe something that is not true, we are not being honest.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/stu ... y?lang=engClarke admits the Church is being dishonest, that they are deliberately lying to members.
