A common complaint in the ExMormon subreddit is over the obsession the Mormon leaders have with tithing, which is paying 1/10th of your earnings to the church. Many Christian churches encourage this and some also accept “offerings” (any payment that is not a part of tithing).
I can understand a church suggesting tithing as a means of its support, but making it MANDATORY seems absurd. And yet…….
I couldn’t believe the Mormon church would do such a thing. And then I saw the proof:
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2012/12/sacred-transformations?lang=eng
The Vigils’ bishop, César Orellana, also saw changes in their lives. Soon after their baptism, Amado approached Bishop Orellana and said, “We want to pay tithing, but we don’t know how.”
Bishop Orellana explained that tithing was 10 percent of their increase. Amado was somewhat concerned. At the time, Evelyn had a job, but he did not. “We always come up short,” Amado explained to his bishop, “but we want to pay tithing.”
Bishop Orellana responded, “Brother, the Lord has made many promises.” Together they read scriptures about the blessings that come from faithfully paying tithing, including the Lord’s words through the prophet Malachi: “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, … and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it” (Malachi 3:10).
After reading these scriptures together, Bishop Orellana looked at the new convert and said, “If paying tithing means that you can’t pay for water or electricity, pay tithing. If paying tithing means that you can’t pay your rent, pay tithing. Even if paying tithing means that you don’t have enough money to feed your family, pay tithing. The Lord will not abandon you.”
The next Sunday, Amado approached Bishop Orellana again. This time he didn’t ask any questions. He simply handed his bishop an envelope and said, “Bishop, here is our tithing.”
If you are actually trying to get people to starve themselves or go without any basic necessities to give you anything, YOU ARE A DAMNED PARASITE!!!!
People like Bishop Orellana are con artists, pure and simple.
Dale Husband's Intellectual Rants 
Listen you can say what you want but obviously you have no clue how the LDS church takes care of its members. A faithful member in such circumstances of the article you listed will always be in receipt of much more temporal blessings than their tithing. But that takes faith. I’m not commenting on the principle or the church but simply letting you know the facts. I’m not even saying the concept is correct. The bishop is no parasite because he is a volunteer with no pay at all and no stipend at all and no financial benefit at all (hilarious). If you speak to a disgruntled member or to an antimormon (or someone ignorant of how the church cares for its poor members) and they don’t admit that the tithing paid by poor members is paid back to those familys and then some, you can sure bet they are being disengenuine, and before you say that my experience is too limited to speak for the whole church I submit to you, your or their experience is nil, as can be gleaned from the article.
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