Signs of church in Apostasy

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Hagoth
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Re: Signs of church in Apostasy

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Mormon 8 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 12:49 pm By the way Hagoth, been trying to locate that quote from Dallin H. Oaks about how no tithes go to help the poor, but I'm coming up empty. Seems as though they've been pulled.
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Re: Signs of church in Apostasy

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Hagoth wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 12:07 pm -Escalation of tithing from increase to gross, and its requirement for temple worthiness (selling tokens and signs for money)
Having a 3rd stage General Authority appear before the Emperor and issue the direct warning, "The Tithing must flow", before reminding the Emperor that "they were never there", made the job of the newsroom PR person mopping up the trail of slime behind them sort of an anticlimax.

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