https:\/\/www.ldscharities.org<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll have nothing to do with such things,\u201d vows one critic.<\/p>\n
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And, since he\u2019s inactive and hostile to the Church, he presumably won\u2019t.<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now perhaps he\u2019s doing even better things on his own, or through some other charity. \u00a0If so, that\u2019s wonderful.<\/p>\n
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But the odds are against it. \u00a0Secular and religiously unaffiliated people, while some of them\u00a0spend a great deal of time and effort on criticizing religious people, give, on average, much less time, effort, and money to charity than religious people do. \u00a0That\u2019s been demonstrated multiple times in multiple studies.<\/p>\n
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I hope he is, though. \u00a0I hope he\u2019s not just cynically sniping at those who\u2019re actually doing things while he\u2019s doing little or nothing.<\/p>\n
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In the meanwhile, active Latter-day Saints out there should take considerable gratification in the tangible good that their church and their fellow Latter-day Saints are doing. \u00a0Have a look at the website above. \u00a0And, if you feel inspired to do so, contribute.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Inevitably, critics of everything Mormon are attacking the Church\u2019s Mormon Helping Hands projects. \u00a0 \u201cToo self-promoting,\u201d they say. \u00a0\u201cAll those icky yellow shirts,\u201d they cry. \u00a0 Well, here\u2019s an interesting website on some of the Church\u2019s humanitarian undertakings: \u00a0 https:\/\/www.ldscharities.org \u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ll have nothing to do with such things,\u201d vows one critic. \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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