For FLDS the year 2000 wasn’t supposed to happen

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7114/flds-church-teachings-lead-members-into-financial-mire

FLDS church teachings lead members into financial mire

The Salt Lake Tribune
May 5, 2004

As the millennium approached, many followers of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints felt encouraged to max out their credit cards and exhaust their personal loans. The end was near, FLDS leaders said, and the bills would never come due.

“We were going to be lifted up and the wicked would be destroyed,” said Pam Black, whose now deceased husband Martin did as told. “I remember him spending on his own teeth.”

Only the world didn’t end and the bills are coming due. Consider this case: One Hildale family piled up $47,612 in credit card debt for “living expenses” before filing for bankruptcy late last year.

“A lot of people got quite burned in the deal,” said Ross Chatwin, a former member who is currently fighting the FLDS church’s attempt to evict him from his home. “A lot went bankrupt, a lot of cards got cut off and vehicles repossessed.”

[yardwork]

1. The stress would likely lead to increased domestic abuse, too.

[AndyTiedye]

2. Isn't "Buying" Stuff With No Intention of Actually Paying for it STEALING?

How do these nutbars expect to get "raptured" when they are behave like this?

[nashville_brook]

4. good point! their last earthy acts would have been dishonest -- they're LUCKY

it didn't happen. now they can repent.

[nashville_brook]

3. seems *sinful* to run up bills you don't intend to pay -- regardless of armageddon.

i mean -- it's hard to have much sympathy, because at root the intent seems to be to defraud creditors. wonder how many "end-of-the-world" plasma TVs were bought.

[NutmegYankee]

5. Wait, let me see if I have this straight?

These people ran up huge debts hoping to not have to repay them and screwing over the lenders and retailers in the process, and now that their little fraudulent act didn't happen, we're supposed to feel sorry for them?

Pfft. :nopity:

[elizfeelinggreat]

6. sounds strangely familiar

doesn't it?


Run up huge (national) debt, have fun thinking you're going to heaven a hero and everyone around you believes the SAME thing you do, then never have to pay for it.


(oh, and whine about how hard you work) ...

[Donnachaidh]

7. Someone should open a disposable diaper company

And on each and every diaper bottom put the face of Bush, Cheney or Rumsfeld. All three have shat on our kid's future - now we need to let our kids do the same to them.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

8. ...