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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reputation laundering. The LDS church collected $33 billion in tithes and $15 billion in profit on private holdings in 2010 alone. Don't fall for this bullshit, they're the most hell-bound sinister ghouls this world has to offer.

The LDS church is a force of evil in the world and $1 million dollars (0.002% of their annual proceeds) is pretty cheap for an ad to control the narrative.

[–] Aux 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Now how much did they spend on marking this donation?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So like if I give $10, should I make a press release?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worse, it'd be like if you gave 10 cents. The LDS church has an investment portfolio worth 100 billion dollars and brings in several billion a year in just tithes.

[–] lemmyshmemmy -2 points 1 year ago

33 billion in tithes, per the poster above you

[–] BURN 0 points 1 year ago

This is a clear effort to LOOK like they’re doing something while donating such a tiny fraction of the wealth they hoard that it won’t even make a dent.

The Mormon church imo is worse than the Catholic Church. At least the Catholics are open about being shitty and we all know it. The Mormons basically run 2 states and nobody talks about it