Beuatiful insight. I can’t add anything to this then to say I can’t agree more.

And by the way, did you get my email about Conversation?? We want you on there!!!

And it offers ZERO financial transparency to its members on how tithing money is spent.

Now follow the profit.

Unless you have some verifiable evidence regarding the six billion figure, it’s nothing but conjecture.

Actually it does offer “transperancy” on how tithing and other income is spent. Anyone can view that information and a regular audit is done and reported on. As well, I can tell you where that money is spent, on buildings, upkeep, the poor, foreign aid, the list goes on and on. The Church takes care of its own. I have seen it in action.

1) The $6/$30 billion income/asset figure was from Newsweek’s Hinckley interviews and not denied by church leaders.

2) You are in error about their public accounting. They do not produce this in the U.S. or in other countries. Only in Great Britain are they required by law to show their finances. And it isn’t pretty. Less than 1% goes to charitable work.

3) There is no good reason for their lack of financial transparency for a religious organization. They don’t want you to know how the money is spent, or to whom it goes.

Can you be more specific?

The Mormon Church is the most prosperous of American religions and is preparing to focus that considerable wealth on an unprecedented campaign of international expansion, according to a cover story in Time magazine on newsstands this week.

Time correspondents claimed “unusual cooperation” from the hierarchy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in researching the article, which gives what may be the most accurate financial snapshot of the church to date: a minimum of $30 billion in assets and annual gross income of $6 billion — more than Utah’s state budget this year.

http://www.lds-mormon.com/time.shtml