Kooiker - 4/14/2026 09:18





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.