by BettyHumpter 21 Replies latest jw friends
True, but religious mammonism is still greed, regardless of net worth.
LDS enjoys greater monetary prosperity than WT because LDS is:
WT discourages all of the above, and is therefore:
Regardless, both LDS & WT are contemptibly wacky worship systems.
CEO Jesus should be ashamed of the entire lot.
I'm talking about the main branch. The one with the giant temple in Salt Lake City and the ones who founded and now sponsor Brigham Young University.
Seventh Day Adventists are similarly sized to the mainstream LDS (18M members), allow people to go to college, don't ban blood transfusions etc etc and have the same roots and promote similar beliefs to the JW. In proper historical perspective, the SDA are the mainstream branch of Millerism, not the WTBTS/JW.
The Mormons are a lot more fractioned but there are denominations of similar (active) size to JWs that are much more strict and as with the JWs it varies greatly from region to region as the control is also centralized with specific men rather than congregations.
There's no apples-to-apples comparison between the JW and the mainstream LDS, which is what has lead to their growth. The dangerous elements of centralized control of the late 19th and early 20th century that lead to abuse in those mainstream groups have been largely eliminated. Similarly has the SDA not necessarily rejected but pretty much eliminated the Miller calculations on Bible prophecies from their message (the basis to the end of the world predictions in the late 19th and early 20th century) and gone to a representative leadership structure. So they still believe in the literal 1000 year reign, but they don't promise any time schedule, not even "soon".
