The Mormon church is outraged with the latest cover of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine

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Mormons lash out at 'tasteless' Businessweek cover that mocks the Church's financial enterprises

By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 09:36 EST, 14 July 2012 | UPDATED: 10:24 EST, 14 July 2012


..The Mormon church is outraged with the latest cover of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine which parodies their prophet’s mission and sends up the lucrative nature of the organisation.

The cover illustration satirizes the moment when Mormons believe John the Baptist bestowed the priesthood on Joseph Smith, the faith's founding prophet.

On the cover, John the Baptist tells Smith, 'and thou shalt build a shopping mall, own stock in Burger King, and open a Polynesian theme park in Hawaii that shall be largely exempt from the frustrations of tax ...'

Smith replies, 'Hallelujah.'

[Major Hogwash]

1. They should make up their mind, they're either a business or a church.

Either way, they should be subject to income taxes.
Just like everybody else.

"Corporations are people, my friend. But, some corporations that I own are not located in the United States."

[nc4bo]

2. +1. nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Would fundamentalist protestants find some commonality with Mormans here?

There used to be a church in my neighborhood I could see from my house that had some kind of name like Christian Businessman's Fellowship Church or something similar. I was told the church promoted the idea of believing in God as a way of getting rich in business and they tried to create links between Christianity and the business world. Don't a lot of mega churches promote the idea of business being next to godliness and that you can pray your way to riches?

[demosincebirth]

4. Reminds of a verse from the New Testament...something about a richman, a camel and a needle.

Humm. I guess they skipped that part.

[demwing]

7. Clearly you're reading from the socialist bible

chronicling Jesus' missing years when he lived in a collectivist commune and studied under Alinsky the Baptist

[gopiscrap]

10. I love my socialist bible

except I never knew it was a socialist bible til some gop fundy freak said so!

[demosincebirth]

13. What ever.

[CBGLuthier]

18. Prosperity Gospel they call it. An abomination is what I call it.

My current favorite practitioner is this one greasy televangelist who has rewritten the new age bullshit The Secret into prosperity gospel bullshit.

[Lint Head]

5. I think they're also now running the Boy Scouts.

[demwing]

6. Matthew 6:19-21

19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Quite a bit different than the Gospel according to Milton Friedman

[alittlelark]

8. They are Scientology Beta testing.........

They turned it into a (religion/???, hedge fund?!!? Way to try to control the world ???!!!)

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. I'm outraged in their part behind California's Proposition 8, against gay marriage.

Church / / / / / / / / / / / / State

[Merlot]

14. Exactly! With prop 8, they ceased being a church and became a political orginization

[Le Taz Hot]

15. I hear that!

Them and the Roman Catholic Church. Both of which are STILL tax fucking exempt!

[gopiscrap]

11. The truth hurts!

[siligut]

12. See, this is where Mitt learned to lie.

Or to fake outrage at the truth. Maybe it isn't even fake, maybe they believe all the crap they feed to the members. No, most probably they have to discount the article quickly, before members read it and start to think about it.

Damn that thinking, got to nip it in the bud. And damn the truth too, the pesky stuff, out to ruin all their pretty plans.

[B Calm]

16. They are upset that people are finding out the truth

about the Mormon Church. . Who Cares!!

[Frank Cannon]

17. Were any of Businessweek's facts in error?

No? Well, then, Mormon Church, since you don't drink coffee...

[_ed_]

19. LD$

It's just about the money. The Scientology of the 19th Century.