• UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    “It’s heartbreaking because they care more about the money because they haven’t one time called or reached out to say, ‘How’s your kids doing?’ But yet they’re out there fighting to get their money back,” he said. “I wish they’d put that much care into the victims.”

    Yep. This is the so called church in a nutshell. They are a corporation masquerading as a religious institution and the membership is ever so slowly starting to realize that.

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      the membership is ever so slowly starting to realize that.

      Doesn’t really matter. The church has acquired enough tax free land that they’ll be self sufficient for decades, if not centuries

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    As an ex Mormon, fuck them. And they have more than enough money to pay their own settlements if they want to continue to protect predators.

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      For the uninitiated, the Mormon church has more than $200 billion in a “rainy day” investment fund they created using the tithes they demand from their members, with an estimated $7 billion more being added to their reserves each year from tithes and donations alone.