NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-15-08 05:26 PM
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For FLDS the year 2000 wasn’t supposed to happen
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FLDS church teachings lead members into financial mire
The Salt Lake Tribune
May 5, 2004
As the millennium approached, many followers of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints felt encouraged to max out their credit cards and exhaust their personal loans. The end was near, FLDS leaders said, and the bills would never come due.
“We were going to be lifted up and the wicked would be destroyed,†said Pam Black, whose now deceased husband Martin did as told. “I remember him spending on his own teeth.â€
Only the world didn’t end and the bills are coming due. Consider this case: One Hildale family piled up $47,612 in credit card debt for “living expenses†before filing for bankruptcy late last year.
“A lot of people got quite burned in the deal,†said Ross Chatwin, a former member who is currently fighting the FLDS church’s attempt to evict him from his home. “A lot went bankrupt, a lot of cards got cut off and vehicles repossessed.â€
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3162177AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-15-08 05:31 PM
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2. Isn't "Buying" Stuff With No Intention of Actually Paying for it STEALING?
How do these nutbars expect to get "raptured" when they are behave like this?
Does the FLDS, or even the LDS for that matter, support the idea of a rapture?
nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-15-08 05:36 PM
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4. good point! their last earthy acts would have been dishonest -- they're LUCKY
it didn't happen. now they can repent.
To me, it seems like our group of "gifted and talented individuals has gotten fundie Mormons confused with "fundies" in general.
