| 1972RedNeck - 4/12/2026 01:22 Whatever the optics may look like to you, 1.58 billion is still "some" social services. Obviously they don't spend everything that they bring in for humanitarian efforts. Lots of church buildings across the world to build and maintain. And then obviously a chunk goes to solid investments like farmland that will produce food for the world. I have no problems with part of my 10% of my increase in net worth going towards farmland. Actually, I like it. And I don't think the Founder needs our worthless paper money...
For some reason the leaders of your church think they need to build worldly wealth. $1.58 billion is around 5% of what the LDS church takes in per year. That means 95% is being used for something other than helping needy people. I'd be furious if that was how the money I give was being used and I wouldn't be giving another dime.
$1.58 billion sounds very generous, until you look at it in context. Then it looks awful. It looks like an investment fund pretending to be a church.
I'm curious how the "church" buying farmland that is already in production would do anything for increasing global food supply? I could understand that thought process if you were buying and clearing land in South America or Africa to put it into production but not when you're buying American land that is already being farmed. Never mind the investments in commercial properties or stocks in corporations.
Edited by Kooiker 4/14/2026 09:40
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