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give me a break... Name another religion that asks its members to give 10%.. serve for free in time consuming callings... require all its male members serve 2 years when they are 19 at their own expense as a missionary... asks that is members refrain from two meals per month and pay the money they would have spent to help the poor. Ask that its people do a tedious search of its ancestors and then spend at least 2 hours performing a ceremony to for each one. Not to mention they ask that older couples also take two years and pay at their own expense to go on missions
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Maybe that applies in Utah where membership is so plentiful and so active that you have a person with one calling and that's to call all members with last names from A to M to tell them they are to bring a salad and someone else calls N to Z to tell them they are to bring a dessert. If you don't think LDS members are asked to do enough, you're more than welcome to move to Allentown and put your shoulder to the wheel. |
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Allentown? I'd rather move to Ogden.
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7th day adv have a paid clergy...
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We already have this program, actually. It's called Mission President, and it's reserved generally for folks who have demonstrated a willingness to sacrifice. For the rest of us, the old Naaman the Syrian lesson should be instructive. As to the "problem" I can imagine there are many remote corners of the church where members are not nearly so comfortable as you portray. For those of us who are lucky enough to have "easy and cheap lives" (who the heck is that, anyway? certainly not me!), we can read the old Brigham quote about getting too comfortable and kicking ourselves out of the kingdom. The law of consecration is not revoked, by the way. It's just not institutionally implemented. |
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Not really... are the JWs asked to do geneaology?
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As do LDS. In fact through part of the 20th Century, bishops were paid five percent of tithing collected and stake presidents were paid ten percent. Mission presidents are paid if they need it.
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