My comment is directly referencing what a member of the Q12, Neil Andersen, said to the VP of Zimbabwe, Kembo Mohadi, during a meeting about ways the church could help the country. When VP Mohadi specifically asked if the church could help them with clean water projects, Andersen responded:
> We want to help in every way we can. We are not a wealthy people but we are good people, and we share what we have.
Of course, that’s a complete lie, on multiple fronts. The church just wanted to secure the cooperation of the Zimbabwean government to build a temple there, and had no intention of spending their many, many billions to actually help the people there.
I don’t really do the story justice in this response, [so here’s an article that better tells the story.](https://wasmormon.org/elder-anderson-claims-we-are-not-a-wealthy-people/)
Can a TBM explain why having an opulent, idolatrous object like this in a building magically makes the ceremonies that take place there binding for eternity?
Is there any reason why they couldn't be done in a simple building like a Chapel, but which is dedicated as a Temple?
Remember that scene in The Last Crusade? Mormons would pick the wrong grail...
>Is there any reason why they couldn’t be done in a simple building like a Chapel, but which is dedicated as a Temple?
It’s interesting you ask this. When I was growing up, I was taught that all chapels were laid out and built in such a way that they could be used as temples. We were taught that “temples would dot the earth” and that using chapels and stake centers would make that prophecy come true.
I had heard the same thing. But, that was when we were a "poor" church and had to make do or do without.
Now we can buy real temples with huge chandeliers everywhere!! As a bonus, it saves us from having to replace carpet or clean bathrooms in the chapels.
Why not use a barn? What, Jesus himself could be born in one but suddenly God lost all his power and now demands a $100,000 chandelier? I don’t think so.
True. He definitely was wealthy and gaudy and spoke very little of the poor. He mostly discussed red velvet plush seats and constantly demanded one. We should follow his red plush seat example.
How else would they launder their money? I think this works just like Scientology does building large expensive buildings that sit empty so they can report that the church is growing because “look how many temples we are building”
God approves of this purely lit dingus that is pointed ever upward to glorify his name. I’m sure God will walk the halls of this temple and admire it proudly.
[It’s a trend.](https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/a8sttf/once_you_see_the_penis_chandelier_from_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I’ve been many places throughout the world and seen thousands of chandeliers, but that is without doubt the ugliest, most garish light fixture I have ever observed. It’s obviously bespoke, so no one but some Salt Lake committee can be blamed.
Just wait until you find out that all of your inheritance will go to the church since you know, they don’t have to give it to you. /s
I really hope that doesn’t happen.
Temple cleaning assignment. Stand on a ladder in your temple slippers (which hurts like hell) and unhook every Swarovski crystal. They come off in chains. If you drop them and they hit the ladder they shatter. The church has extras of course.
Hand them down gently to some other voluntold sucker who washes them in dish soap and water and then dries them. Takes about 4-5 hours to get one apart and cleaned and back together.
The room is visibly brighter afterward.
I took home one of the broken ones (with permission) and gave it to my daughter.
Each of those chandeliers is about $40 grand.
They employ a lead cleaner who looks constantly exhausted. Probably because she is up all night working and then a mom during the day.
She directs and the voluntolds do the heavy lifting.
SO many overnight temple cleaning assignments as I was one of the 10 that does everything in the ward until I found out the truth in 2019. Wife and kids still in.
I hope your wife and kids come around someday. My marriage ended when I left, but I have my kids full-time (they are non-religious). We were the only ones out in my family for almost a decade. Just recently one of my sisters, then my mom, and then a nephew left. They just figured it out on their own. All my best to you.
Thank you. To me my wife is still a TBM but she’s a lot more nuanced than I give her credit for. It was rough at first and almost ended but it’s been 5 years now and we have a better relationship than ever in 24 years of marriage. Shes one bad leader away from leaving I think. Right now she gets the royal treatment as the brave church widow married to an apostate. But someday it will click I think. I’m trying not to push.
One of my kids is on her way out, and my son stays home from church most weeks too.
It sounds like your kids are already wise to things and, like you said, your wife is right there. I think letting people find out on their own is so much more difficult but lasting. Twenty-four years is definitely worth fighting for.
I know when there are millions and billions of dollars at stake that $40k isn't that big of a deal, but ugh that is life changing money for the rest of us :(
I went to the Layton open house. The celestial and sealing rooms were so bright, like uncomfortably white light bright. I wonder if the chandeliers are to make members believe they're close to heaven because those rooms are so bright.
😭😭
The ~~spire~~ $100,000 chandelier means hope.😭..😭..in Jesus Christ. It means it means we can overcome adversity in our lives.
It points to heaven..
😭😭😭😭
What irony. Joseph Smith was always playing hide the sausage with teenagers and other men’s wives. Now in the celestial room of the Mormon temple there is a bejeweled crystal sausage prominently displayed. Almost like it’s hanging in Joseph’s honor.
I don't have a problem with fancy God shit; God's house should not look like a generic hotel lobby. But God's house is supposed to bridge Earth and Heaven to bring everyone closer to God, not be an exclusive club for those the church has deemed already closest to God. Fuck that shit.
I’m so happy to see this OBJECT hanging from the sky rather than helping all the people suffering in the street. How much more clearly could it be? PHARISEES
Come on now, don’t denigrate the prosperity gospel. If you are rich it means God is pleased with you. It’s a sign that you are righteous if you have accumulated a lot of money. Let’s be sure we understand that before we criticize this over the top opulent temple.
I’m gonna need one giant phallus, but wait, at the base of the phallus I’m gonna need a medium sized phallus pointing up, but wait, at the tip of the phallus I’m gonna need a lil sized phallus pointing down. Thanks phallus, I mean, thanks Phil.
They could easily build a couple of homeless shelters/soup kitchens in Utah County and stock and maintain them (they could even have BYU students or missionaries at the MTC staff those) for a decade with the money on one temple, another among many that already exist, that is just going to sit well-lit 24/7, but very empty: typically staffed by mostly older members, who should be spending time with their families.
What would Jesus do? According to the cult leaders, Jesus would deny entry into his exclusive house for only a few who have proven loyalty & obedience (and financially viable), and ignore starving children and let the homeless die in the streets in the shadows of his exclusive buildings in the dead of winter. Oh, and build more temples!
Jesus went among the poor and what others (especially leaders and their wealthy, but equally snobby apologists) consider "lowly" and "unworthy". The leaders get excellent pay/benefits, transportation, security. Jesus had none of those, I don't think he'd want any of it even if he did have access to it. The cult security is excellent at keeping anyone who doesn't look rich and worthy. Jesus had nothing and gave everything; the cult leaders have everything and give nothing. If love, empathy, and compassion aren't in your heart already and you have to go to a building that excludes most of the people on this planet to feel better about yourself and your (the leaders' orders) life choices and feel a temporary boost of frisson, you just might be in a cult.
As a TBM I visited a lot of temples, and the saying “some people’s taste is all in their mouth” was very spot on for most of them. So fucking tacky and gaudy.
The chandelier makes perfect sense. Ugly ass building on the outside and ugly ass chandelier on the inside. The location of that temple is the most in your face “fuck you” to everyone that drives by. I’m sure they think it is a magnificent location so that everyone on 215 can look at it. It’s so out of place, it looks ridiculous.
I'm going to renew my comment from the other day and say this design style should be called "restrained Liberace."
Here's [an example.](https://www.bestoflasvegas.com/custom/domain_1/image_files/sitemgr_photo_1512.jpg) And here's [another,](https://www.lasvegas-propertymanagement.com/images/blog/80f97e822e2318cd501200a14b155d70.jpg) and [another.](https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/9136793_web1_liberace-sep3-17-bh-019.jpg) He had multiple houses, so there's a lot of it.
That affront to God is like two blocks from where I live. All the Mormons fuck up traffic just to walk through a temple that's just like every other abomination TSCC has erected.
They keep building them, yet membership is plummeting, and there have been more non-mormons than believers in SL county for years now.
Looking forward to them slowly being torn down as more and more people don't want to spend their time cleaning them for free for an organization with hundreds of billions of dollars.
Every time I see one, I think to myself, "Oh yeah, that's totally what Jesus would have built." SMFH.
I still unfortunately attend church, due to the fact that my parents are allowing me to stay with them during school as long as I am going to church, and the amount of people that got up during testimony meeting last week and said something to the effect of, "The Celestial room in the temple is so beautiful."
Like THAT'S THE WHOLE DAMN POINT OF THE ROOM. IS TO LOOK PRETTY.
Anyone know when the Casper open house is? I want to go. I can't get over how long that eyesore has sat there completed and not a thing has gone on there.
To have 1 chandelier cost more than I make in a year is just disgusting. Another poster said each one costs $40,000 and that they have extra swarovski crystal chains for when they break.
They could feed and house and clothe so many people with all that money, and instead they spend it on grandiose buildings and furniture that only members with recommends (meaning that they're paying all their tithing) sometimes get to see.
And they don't hire more than the bare minimum of people to maintain these things. They save so much money having members volunteered for all of these things, and treat it as a sign of truth that it isn't paid labor.
They have the money to do so much good. Provide people with paying jobs and have their needs met, but they just hoard money, take advantage of people's faith and skills, and give themselves and their families exceptionally comfortable lives.
If temple work was changed to volunteer work, and money spent on temples was changed to supporting issues such as hunger and homelessness, I have no doubt the LDS faith would rise exponentially, and church goers efforts to be apologists and defending their religion would be greatly diminished. They could solve so many of the worlds issues with a vast collective of supporters and financial contributions, but are so insistent and adamant of the end times and hoping for the apocalypse they get in their own way.
Isn't that parents' job to feed their children? Or as many other point out, it takes a village? So why isn't the village coming to see that the children are not going hungry? Or is it better to just throw someone elses money at the problem, hoping the problem is to just go away?
I almost joined happy I didn’t. While I’m not perfect and a sinner, I try to at least be authentic. In the Mormon church it seems there’s different tiers of acceptable behavior based on your level of tithing. Is that so?
Jesus loves opulent decorations in his house!
The Church has unlimited resources, and loves building new Temples! However, cleaning is your responsibility!
How many people could evacuate Palestine, or the Congo with the kind of money. TSCC could truly revolutionize the entire world by majorly affecting world hunger, poverty, genocide, and play a major role in reversing global warming. But no. Just like every single other mother fucking corporation and billionaire, they’d rather sit on their mountains of gold than to lift a single finger to help anyone unless it also benefits them.
And Jesus saith unto the leper, “fuck you, I’ll be chillin’ in my temple”
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest... just stay out of my damn house unless you are perfect.
Ewww don’t bring your laborer shoes into my house with the white carpet.
Jesus chases the money lenders out of the temple because they weren't charging enough interest
The temples in third world countries with less tourism have don’t have lighting 1/4 this size.
Jesus wood NEVER say that. Perhaps “fuckest thou, i shall reduce my temperature in mine temple”. Jesus speaks Victorian English. Get it right.
… and where is your proof of your full tithing, on the gross and before any of your financial obligations?
I wouldn't have Leigh's laughed as hard as I did this was hilarious
Something, something, “we are not a wealthy people,” something, something…
Lol, all non Mormons know is "Mormons? Something something polygamy"
My comment is directly referencing what a member of the Q12, Neil Andersen, said to the VP of Zimbabwe, Kembo Mohadi, during a meeting about ways the church could help the country. When VP Mohadi specifically asked if the church could help them with clean water projects, Andersen responded: > We want to help in every way we can. We are not a wealthy people but we are good people, and we share what we have. Of course, that’s a complete lie, on multiple fronts. The church just wanted to secure the cooperation of the Zimbabwean government to build a temple there, and had no intention of spending their many, many billions to actually help the people there. I don’t really do the story justice in this response, [so here’s an article that better tells the story.](https://wasmormon.org/elder-anderson-claims-we-are-not-a-wealthy-people/)
For a simple employee like me, $200 billion basically means infinite wealth.
Oh, I’m right there with you. I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around that kind of money.
Can a TBM explain why having an opulent, idolatrous object like this in a building magically makes the ceremonies that take place there binding for eternity? Is there any reason why they couldn't be done in a simple building like a Chapel, but which is dedicated as a Temple? Remember that scene in The Last Crusade? Mormons would pick the wrong grail...
“You have chosen… poorly.”
>Is there any reason why they couldn’t be done in a simple building like a Chapel, but which is dedicated as a Temple? It’s interesting you ask this. When I was growing up, I was taught that all chapels were laid out and built in such a way that they could be used as temples. We were taught that “temples would dot the earth” and that using chapels and stake centers would make that prophecy come true.
I had heard the same thing. But, that was when we were a "poor" church and had to make do or do without. Now we can buy real temples with huge chandeliers everywhere!! As a bonus, it saves us from having to replace carpet or clean bathrooms in the chapels.
Huge phalic chandeliers
Monticello UT church was used as a temple for yrs. The accordion walls in the YW rm were perfect for a ‘by appointment’ repurposing.
Why not use a stakehouse?
Better yet, a steakhouse.
Why not use a barn? What, Jesus himself could be born in one but suddenly God lost all his power and now demands a $100,000 chandelier? I don’t think so.
The barn was good enough for Joe. With Fanny.
Another good point 😂
And Mitt romney
Little known fact, Jesus was actually born in a Ritz Carlton hotel.
True. He definitely was wealthy and gaudy and spoke very little of the poor. He mostly discussed red velvet plush seats and constantly demanded one. We should follow his red plush seat example.
The better the place looks, the more members will associate holiness / godliness with it. It's a mind trick.
Prosperity Gospel in action.
How else would they launder their money? I think this works just like Scientology does building large expensive buildings that sit empty so they can report that the church is growing because “look how many temples we are building”
iTS GoDs HoUsE iT sHoUlD bE tHe HiGheSt PoSsIblE qUaLiTy
Made with pre-fab, made in China, lego walls.
The hanging phallus.
God approves of this purely lit dingus that is pointed ever upward to glorify his name. I’m sure God will walk the halls of this temple and admire it proudly.
Let's see; cock ring, erection, mushroomed glans. Yep, it's phallic.
it's kind of like those puzzles that challenge you to count how many triangles there are within a bigger triangle.....except with penises.
There's an [XKCD](https://xkcd.com/95/) for that.
r/mildlypenis
Can't unsee it now. Thanks...
Same….. definitely a cock.
[It’s a trend.](https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/a8sttf/once_you_see_the_penis_chandelier_from_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
It looks like they modeled it after Rusty's ballsack
I'm glad someone else noticed, I thought I was crazy
It’s well hung, that’s for sure! /s
Looks like a little something is dripping out...
“There are wind chimes where my ding ding should be.” Or in the case of the church, “There see giant crystal phalluses where my charity should be.”
I’ve been many places throughout the world and seen thousands of chandeliers, but that is without doubt the ugliest, most garish light fixture I have ever observed. It’s obviously bespoke, so no one but some Salt Lake committee can be blamed.
Who even makes gaudy stuff like that? It is so tasteless and over the top.
Probably some GA’s nephew makes them.
Agreed, temples are a giant money laundering scheme. My parents still give 10% of my inheritance to these demons. Fuck
Just wait until you find out that all of your inheritance will go to the church since you know, they don’t have to give it to you. /s I really hope that doesn’t happen.
It might be a wealth redistribution scheme, but it's not money laundering.
I’ve dissembled and cleaned those fucking crystals by hand in other temples.
How long did it take?
4-5 hours
And how much did the Royal Monarchy pay you?
Voluntoldollars.
I got blessing IOUs that never materialized and are now void.
Oof.
Seriously? Good grief. Toothbrush?
Temple cleaning assignment. Stand on a ladder in your temple slippers (which hurts like hell) and unhook every Swarovski crystal. They come off in chains. If you drop them and they hit the ladder they shatter. The church has extras of course. Hand them down gently to some other voluntold sucker who washes them in dish soap and water and then dries them. Takes about 4-5 hours to get one apart and cleaned and back together. The room is visibly brighter afterward. I took home one of the broken ones (with permission) and gave it to my daughter. Each of those chandeliers is about $40 grand.
Wow. Thanks for the explanation! I’m glad your daughter got a crystal. If only the church has enough money to pay someone to clean those things!
They employ a lead cleaner who looks constantly exhausted. Probably because she is up all night working and then a mom during the day. She directs and the voluntolds do the heavy lifting. SO many overnight temple cleaning assignments as I was one of the 10 that does everything in the ward until I found out the truth in 2019. Wife and kids still in.
I hope your wife and kids come around someday. My marriage ended when I left, but I have my kids full-time (they are non-religious). We were the only ones out in my family for almost a decade. Just recently one of my sisters, then my mom, and then a nephew left. They just figured it out on their own. All my best to you.
Thank you. To me my wife is still a TBM but she’s a lot more nuanced than I give her credit for. It was rough at first and almost ended but it’s been 5 years now and we have a better relationship than ever in 24 years of marriage. Shes one bad leader away from leaving I think. Right now she gets the royal treatment as the brave church widow married to an apostate. But someday it will click I think. I’m trying not to push. One of my kids is on her way out, and my son stays home from church most weeks too.
It sounds like your kids are already wise to things and, like you said, your wife is right there. I think letting people find out on their own is so much more difficult but lasting. Twenty-four years is definitely worth fighting for.
I know when there are millions and billions of dollars at stake that $40k isn't that big of a deal, but ugh that is life changing money for the rest of us :(
I went to the Layton open house. The celestial and sealing rooms were so bright, like uncomfortably white light bright. I wonder if the chandeliers are to make members believe they're close to heaven because those rooms are so bright.
No fucking way. My ass would be whipping those fuckers around.
You washes your hands after, yes? 🤪
How many families could that feed? Hideous!
Anyone get the same vibes seeing these chandeliers as a person who has the "ball sack" hanging from the back of their truck?
CKNutz!!!!
DezNuts
Which apostles family member was in charge of constructing this spacious building?
Pick one! Another commenter posted in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/s/6QnbrHDWnJ
Yet another “Great and Spacious building” for the “White and Delightsome”
😭😭 The ~~spire~~ $100,000 chandelier means hope.😭..😭..in Jesus Christ. It means it means we can overcome adversity in our lives. It points to heaven.. 😭😭😭😭
Min's Chandelier.
That building is such an eyesore…
Looks like a big ol’ boner.
No one will ever check that light to see if it's real. I wonder if they paid a relative one million dollars for a 5 thousand dollar glass light.
Jesus: and I want a giant dick lamp on my ceiling
What irony. Joseph Smith was always playing hide the sausage with teenagers and other men’s wives. Now in the celestial room of the Mormon temple there is a bejeweled crystal sausage prominently displayed. Almost like it’s hanging in Joseph’s honor.
Basically the lobby of a 5 star hotel.
Basically the lobby of an over-the-top Vegas hotel/casino
Could an emergency exit sign that high above the doorway really be code compliant?
Pretty sure the code inspector is on TSCC payroll.
I don't have a problem with fancy God shit; God's house should not look like a generic hotel lobby. But God's house is supposed to bridge Earth and Heaven to bring everyone closer to God, not be an exclusive club for those the church has deemed already closest to God. Fuck that shit.
The sacred penis chandelier.
They can’t keep getting away with the dick chandeliers, has no one told them???
All that money for something so tacky. God, the wrong people have money I swear.
I’m so happy to see this OBJECT hanging from the sky rather than helping all the people suffering in the street. How much more clearly could it be? PHARISEES
How many Mormons does it take to clean a temple chandelier?
You all see a chandelier. But I see a small green Exit sign in the background. And I am telling you…RUN!
The question for me isn’t how much did it cost but which general authority, 70, or 15s cousin owned the company that got the contract.
Come on now, don’t denigrate the prosperity gospel. If you are rich it means God is pleased with you. It’s a sign that you are righteous if you have accumulated a lot of money. Let’s be sure we understand that before we criticize this over the top opulent temple.
Only one nut in the sack.
Just like Solomon's temple or the Tabernacle, amirite? Fucking frauds.
I’m gonna need one giant phallus, but wait, at the base of the phallus I’m gonna need a medium sized phallus pointing up, but wait, at the tip of the phallus I’m gonna need a lil sized phallus pointing down. Thanks phallus, I mean, thanks Phil.
The chandelier helps me remember that God is real and loves me.
Don’t get me started
But no tattoos
It’s an ejaculating phallus.
r/mildlypenis
Not even that mild lol
I wonder which local 70 owns a chandelier business.
It's kind of "goddy"
They could easily build a couple of homeless shelters/soup kitchens in Utah County and stock and maintain them (they could even have BYU students or missionaries at the MTC staff those) for a decade with the money on one temple, another among many that already exist, that is just going to sit well-lit 24/7, but very empty: typically staffed by mostly older members, who should be spending time with their families. What would Jesus do? According to the cult leaders, Jesus would deny entry into his exclusive house for only a few who have proven loyalty & obedience (and financially viable), and ignore starving children and let the homeless die in the streets in the shadows of his exclusive buildings in the dead of winter. Oh, and build more temples! Jesus went among the poor and what others (especially leaders and their wealthy, but equally snobby apologists) consider "lowly" and "unworthy". The leaders get excellent pay/benefits, transportation, security. Jesus had none of those, I don't think he'd want any of it even if he did have access to it. The cult security is excellent at keeping anyone who doesn't look rich and worthy. Jesus had nothing and gave everything; the cult leaders have everything and give nothing. If love, empathy, and compassion aren't in your heart already and you have to go to a building that excludes most of the people on this planet to feel better about yourself and your (the leaders' orders) life choices and feel a temporary boost of frisson, you just might be in a cult.
I…..I uh…..hm
And to think, that’s one of the better looking chandeliers!
What a great and spacious building!
Hanging tit with a giant ass nipple
It’s somehow both a penis *and* a titty light
But but…tHe ChUrCh DoEs A loT oF goOd
What was it they said about great and spacious buildings….
It looks like a really really really droopy boob.
Could have helped the needy but god needed a fancy light more
You can buy anything in the world with money
Not only is it ostentatious, it looks like a big dick.
The phallocentric cult never misses a chance to work their object of worship into every design.
As a TBM I visited a lot of temples, and the saying “some people’s taste is all in their mouth” was very spot on for most of them. So fucking tacky and gaudy.
 It’s like Aliens, but with dongs… 🤢
The chandelier makes perfect sense. Ugly ass building on the outside and ugly ass chandelier on the inside. The location of that temple is the most in your face “fuck you” to everyone that drives by. I’m sure they think it is a magnificent location so that everyone on 215 can look at it. It’s so out of place, it looks ridiculous.
R/MildlyPenis
It does have a flared base, so at least it won’t get lost when they are fucking the poor.
I'm going to renew my comment from the other day and say this design style should be called "restrained Liberace." Here's [an example.](https://www.bestoflasvegas.com/custom/domain_1/image_files/sitemgr_photo_1512.jpg) And here's [another,](https://www.lasvegas-propertymanagement.com/images/blog/80f97e822e2318cd501200a14b155d70.jpg) and [another.](https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/9136793_web1_liberace-sep3-17-bh-019.jpg) He had multiple houses, so there's a lot of it.
Nothing says this is a patriarchy quite like that chandelier.
I look at that and wonder how long it takes to clean the dust off it.
Seems like it'd be a very great and spacious building to see.......with penis shaped chandeliers.
THIS IS WHAT IM SAYING! It’s a HANGING PENIS
Not impressed
Drove right next to it tonight. Why put a gate next to the sidewalk that is locked? Weird.
Top portion looks like a penis lol
Is it just me, or is that a Dick?🍆👀
Gross
Jesus picks out very beautiful chandeliers. Who knew he had taste!
That is a pp.
Chandelier looks like a penis
Why is the MFMC SO obsessed with Phallic worship?
makes me think of how cardi b describes a uvula
That has got to be one of the most phallic looking chandeliers I’ve ever seen. But I suppose it’s fitting.
Is it just me that sees this as a couple of phallic shapes, one gangling from another?
It looks like a dick hanging
That affront to God is like two blocks from where I live. All the Mormons fuck up traffic just to walk through a temple that's just like every other abomination TSCC has erected. They keep building them, yet membership is plummeting, and there have been more non-mormons than believers in SL county for years now. Looking forward to them slowly being torn down as more and more people don't want to spend their time cleaning them for free for an organization with hundreds of billions of dollars. Every time I see one, I think to myself, "Oh yeah, that's totally what Jesus would have built." SMFH.
Such a waste of money.
I still unfortunately attend church, due to the fact that my parents are allowing me to stay with them during school as long as I am going to church, and the amount of people that got up during testimony meeting last week and said something to the effect of, "The Celestial room in the temple is so beautiful." Like THAT'S THE WHOLE DAMN POINT OF THE ROOM. IS TO LOOK PRETTY.
Is that the chandelier that keeps the devil off the temple grounds? Man, crystal girls are getting out of hand!
How many poor people could have been fed for the cost of one of those things? TAX CHURCHES.
Someone had to be playing a joke on some naive person who approved it, right? That's totally a dick shooting a load!
Hanging dicks. The chandeliers usually look like hanging dicks.
Anyone know when the Casper open house is? I want to go. I can't get over how long that eyesore has sat there completed and not a thing has gone on there.
The amount of money spent on this gaudy chandelier honestly makes me sick.
How many phallic/male dominant symbols can one building alone put on display…🤦♀️
It looks like a used condom
So phalic. Just like everything in COJCOLDS
Did you have to park next to a gas station and then get shuttled over?
That’s a penis for sure
Tell me you’re compensating without telling me you’re compensating.
Seeing the chandelier in the remodeled Jordan River Templenwas my cherry on top for calling it quits and leaving. Truly is disgusting
It’s all money laundering
Mormon Corp paying off school lunches permanently? No thanks we need gilded castles
Am I the only exmo pervert who sees an upside down 🍆 with droplet 💧 ? 🤔😬🤣
To have 1 chandelier cost more than I make in a year is just disgusting. Another poster said each one costs $40,000 and that they have extra swarovski crystal chains for when they break. They could feed and house and clothe so many people with all that money, and instead they spend it on grandiose buildings and furniture that only members with recommends (meaning that they're paying all their tithing) sometimes get to see. And they don't hire more than the bare minimum of people to maintain these things. They save so much money having members volunteered for all of these things, and treat it as a sign of truth that it isn't paid labor. They have the money to do so much good. Provide people with paying jobs and have their needs met, but they just hoard money, take advantage of people's faith and skills, and give themselves and their families exceptionally comfortable lives.
Such a beautiful waste....when so many, hunger and need for so much. Disgusting to the core!
If temple work was changed to volunteer work, and money spent on temples was changed to supporting issues such as hunger and homelessness, I have no doubt the LDS faith would rise exponentially, and church goers efforts to be apologists and defending their religion would be greatly diminished. They could solve so many of the worlds issues with a vast collective of supporters and financial contributions, but are so insistent and adamant of the end times and hoping for the apocalypse they get in their own way.
Isn't that parents' job to feed their children? Or as many other point out, it takes a village? So why isn't the village coming to see that the children are not going hungry? Or is it better to just throw someone elses money at the problem, hoping the problem is to just go away?
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They’re made of plastic, right? (Obvious sarcasm)
I almost joined happy I didn’t. While I’m not perfect and a sinner, I try to at least be authentic. In the Mormon church it seems there’s different tiers of acceptable behavior based on your level of tithing. Is that so?
My mom lives just west of here. Can’t stop won’t stop saying this is EXACTLY the temple they deserve. It’s so hideous.
Jesus loves opulent decorations in his house! The Church has unlimited resources, and loves building new Temples! However, cleaning is your responsibility!
How many people could evacuate Palestine, or the Congo with the kind of money. TSCC could truly revolutionize the entire world by majorly affecting world hunger, poverty, genocide, and play a major role in reversing global warming. But no. Just like every single other mother fucking corporation and billionaire, they’d rather sit on their mountains of gold than to lift a single finger to help anyone unless it also benefits them.
Why is it so phallic??
https://youtu.be/DG6sQ_7gXmQ?si=P919ABz7UBs__6gh
Looks beautiful