The Mormon Corporation | The TRUTH & David A Bednar 

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When did Jesus ever say to the poor, the way out of poverty is for you to pay tithing. Tithes were given to the local temple to feed the poor, the widowed, the orphaned, and the dispossessed. If the temple wasn’t doing that, it was not doing its job.

Russell Nelson out of one side of his mouth says Mormon leaders can’t lead the Mormon members astray, and out of the other side says that Gordon Hinckley and Thomas Monson did just exactly that, and then Russell threw them under the bus. Even as Mormon Inc. is registered with the State of Utah business registration dept. under their long-form name, but with at least two subsidiary *_’dba’_* businesses that still include the “Mormon” name.

I'm still stuck on "the world teaches tolerance and acceptance". Weren't we always taught how evil the world is and now the world seems like a much safer place compared to the church.

Remember that $100 billion hedge funds? It's not moving at all. But the Pressure to Pay Tithing, Serve a mission, Sacrifice to feed,provide means for members who are being ministered Intensifies. The Church is spending a dime expecting huge returns and maintenance to stay afloat is absolutely disgusting.

It never ceases to amaze me how a general authority can talk out of both sides of his mouth while lying through his teeth.

And after "the Church" spent all these years and all those dollars on things like the "I'm a Mormon" campaign. Rusty said using the "nickname" was a victory for Satan; if so, then Satan must be very happy with all those years of resounding success. THE OLD: "Dare to be a Mormon, Dare to stand alone . . . Dare to have a purpose firm, dare to make it known." THE NEW: "Don't you DARE say you're a 'Mormon,' don't you dare to use that name ! . . . 'cause Rusty doesn't like the name, and Rusty runs the game."

How about the church put their money where their mouth is. If “the church doesn’t need your money”, then how about 1. 100% get rid of tithing to the church and have members start donating to local charities within their community and #2 erase full tithe paying questions in temple recommend interviews #3 Get rid of tithing settlement

With regard to membership, it's not a situation where you have to "re-up" annually. Many just quit, walk away, or whatever . . . but they're still on the records, although they often don't give two dumps whether they're considered "members" or not.

Still gaslighting the world.

Who will be the Luther of the LDS Church and nail a thesis to the door of the Salt Lake Temple? To point out, that the exchange of money between believer and Church, as a means of glorification to God or to assist entry into heaven, is dodgy. And to my atheist NeverMo mind, not really in keeping with the way Jesus cleansed the Temple, as described in all four Synoptic Gospels of the New Testament.

The Church, by having limited membership growth globally stays off the radar of public scrutiny. If the Church had reached the predicted numbers from the early 80’s of around 200 million members now, it would be more visible and therefore attract more scrutiny. Multiply the issues the Church has now by 20 and you can see how beneficial it is to limit growth. By limiting its core members and satisfying their needs, it has a high return on investment. If they were to experience similar growth to the 50’s through to the 80’s consistently and manage to minimise attrition, you would dilute that return on investment. The question then becomes, are we dealing with the master, or the apprentice/servant. And if the Church and it’s leaders are merely servants, who are the masters? And I’m not being cerebral and asking is Jesus Christ the master? I’m referring to potential insidious interested parties who maybe financially benefiting from the large commercial arm of the Church.

Another excellent video, Nemo! I love this fact checking series.

I left the Church long, long ago, but I do remember that every ward had a copy of the book, MEET THE MORMONS, back when my family joined the Church, back in 1970, when I was eleven, and that they still used it, displayed it, when I stopped attending, when I was fifteen.

I love you pointing out the membership numbers. The joke in my home growing up was that the membership count was inflated because they don't remove people from the count after they die. They don't publish the number of active attendants.

If I have to choose paying tithing or watching my family die from starvation and homelessness I choose to take care of my family.

The Ensign Peak revelations in 2019 was the beginning of the end of my testimony... and when I read the Joseph F Smith quote saying there would come a day when the church wouldn't require tithing, I was shocked. The definition of tithing has shifted so much yet the church teaches the way it's currently practiced is exactly what the Lord requires, regardless of your current means.

"We have numbers, and I believe the numbers, but I don't know the numbers..." 🤔🤦 What?!?!?!

Susan Bednar's husband's "we don't discriminate and we are not bigots" was such a non-sequiter to everything he had just said, I had to watch it 5 times to make sure I hadn't missed something. Nope. It literally was just a complete non-sequiter. Also, I truly laughed out loud at the "I have no idea what the numbers are, but I know for sure that we're growing." Hilarious. Such an amazing example of Mormon thought in general. "I have no idea what the facts are, nor do I care. I simply know X is true in a vacuum."

Your outro music perfectly captures my mood at the end of a video like this. Reflective, nostalgic, sad. Thanks for all your work making this content.

"The pathway out of poverty is keeping the commandments of God." Thank you, David, for providing the very definition of prosperity gospel

What elder Bednar meant to say was ...... We don't need you money, But we want it .

On the subject of tithing. When he said we don't need the members tithing. Members tithe to keep the commandments of God. You want to see your Bishop flip out? Tell him you are tithing to other charities or religious organizations to help there various need and that's where you feel you need to tithe. Once he stopped having his tantrum, I was told by the Bishop tithing only counts if it is tithed to the LDS Church. Glad I left the LDS Church. I know now who the real Jesus Christ is and what he did for me.

10 percent of a single disabled woman's income in Utah is typically a lot more than she can afford to pay. The church will rarely help single, disabled, chronically ill, poor, sick, homeless, suffering souls. Just look at the homelessness and poverty in Utah, alone. You would think they would want their city to reflect the ideal of the "City of Enoch", they teach about. The church is also the largest land owner in Florida where some of the most severe poverty exists. Why collect my money if you don't use it to help those who suffer instead of baptize dead people.

My comment got clobbered by a funky internet connection, and I don’t wanna retype. Thanks for your pointing out their lies and hypocrisy. Subscribed ❤️, liked 👍, and commenting 💬 for the algorithm.

Love you Nemo and your work. Keep it up please!

Saying “we are not bigots” proves we are not bigots. It’s so simple.

OH MY GOSH !!! I laughed sooo hard when I saw "sister Bednar's husband" your the BEST !!!!🤣🤣🤣

I'm one of 13, we struggled growing up to pay things, my parents always paid tithing. Sad

If they don’t need the tithing money, then be honest and announce the resolution of requiring it for callings and temple attendance. Allow everyone to decide for themselves if the “blessings” received are worth the blessings, he states, are so needed by the poor.

As soon as I heard about the Presiding Bishopric and that they functioned as the body in charge of the finances of the church, (back in seminary in the 90's.) I always wondered if these were the guys really in charge of the church, when I began to doubt. After Nemo points out that the corporation of the presiding bishopric was renamed first, and then the corporation of the first presidency was amalgamated or absorbed into that, that confirms my suspicions. I think anyway. I'm postulating that the presiding bishopric are the real leaders of the Church of Jesus christ of latter day saints and they make a lot of money! Can we look into this further?

“It is certainly a LARGE corporation.” Thanks Nemo for keeping the board of directors of The Corporation of the President honest. We’ll do done.

The official Church stats don't even tell us how many members there are! They tell us how many "members of record" there are. This is an important distinction, because a "member of record" is more broadly defined than "member." For example, anyone who was blessed as a baby is a "member of record" regardless of whether they officially became a member.

I feel that sister Susan Bednar s husband makes a super politician but abhorrent apostle who is supposed to be a representative of Christ.

They are filled with their own self importance. Of all the problems in the world and they focus on trivia and exclusionary dogma.

Thanks Nemo, always have informative information. Aloha 🌺

Isn’t the idea of eternal families being defined by your sexuality and sexual behaviors?

I can't stand how Bednar calls homosexuality a "challenge." Classic passive-aggressive so called "love." "I don't know the numbers" sounds so much like what a politician would say.

Alma must have been a cruel religious leader by failing to require the poor to give, thus depriving them of blessings: “And again Alma commanded that the people of the church should impart of their substance, every one according to that which he had; if he have more abundantly he should impart more abundantly; and of him that had but little, but little should be required; and to him that had not should be given.” (Mosiah 18:27)

Excellent presentation Nemo!

The Hebrew Bible requires charity for forgiveness of sin. Giving money to the Mormon Church is not charitable giving therefore it cannot bless you or bring you forgiveness.

President Bednar reminded me of a missionary from my mission, who was rich and arrogant. He had his initials professionally embroidered in his white shirts. He had a know it all attitude. Far from humble... Lacking humility! Ironically he became an assistant to the mission president. Brown nose...

Im offended that they wasted all that money on a name calling campaign

Hickley was a lifetime media and marketing employee for the Church. Monson a lifetime employed in the publishing industry. I am a Mormon campaign begins in 2008, after the church has a solid website. The Book of Mormon musical comes out in 2011, mocking the church, but exploding interest in membership. Temple building accelerates dramatically, missionary numbers go up. The campaign, used to have the world react and gather steam on its own, runs its course and is no longer needed. Hinckley loved going on TV so Nelson doesn't need to. This isn't hard to see.

Great video as usual! THat video by Bednar trended and got shared by many TBMs a few days ago and they're loving it as usual lol.

Just watched this - so good. Cuts to the heart of the issue. Many religions are really businesses (real-estate is a favorite) that cos-play on the side.

Too much speech that resembles those of conspiring politicians from Elder David Bednar

I guess they didn’t feel like they needed to check the box for honesty either.

I so appreciate all of your research and hard work. Thank you. This is mind blowing information. We never know about this

OMG the lies... they burn. Thanks Nemo

This is what completely broke my shelf. I’m a Stock broker and those SEC findings were 😮😮😮

This was an absolutely amazing informative presentation. Bednar is more of a clever lying snake than I already assumed.

At 6:57, you made a slight misstatement. The "80% retention rate" is not year on year, but rather decade on decade in the US (roughly 2010 vs 2020). Otherwise I think you nailed it pretty well.

Excellent information

In the "Church Investment Governance Structure" chart (at around 8:06 ), the label "invited others" immediately caught my attention. It's not hard to imagine the scope of shenanigans and mischief (in the form of cronyism, nepotism and insider dealing, among other things) that can be concealed behind such a label. That's a 2013 chart. But I have little doubt that "invited others" continue to play a substantial role in deciding how and where LDS-ChurchCo's assets are "invested". If anything, after the corporate restructuring of the legal entity (which was in all likelihood carried out at the urging of certain "invited others"), the role of "invited others" has probably only increased.

Daarth Bednar said Rusty will forever (never ending time) be known for "remarkable courage" forever for discarding the title Mormon. Wow! Give him the Congressional Medal of Honor...not!

Thanks for the showing the cooperate affiliation diagram Nemo! I've discussed that aspect with quite a few others locally (In UT, Out of state apart from UT) before and many don't know of that aspect and believe it's all conspiracy nonsense or the 'one the one showing the relation' is creating 'false' witness' on the matter/ or the community usually grows in their own emotional upheaval to assume fort of faith sedition is aloof to then exercise undue unjust punishment/ disciplinary action. I wish I had your affiliation diagram in the past. Basically, one had to research the company down to their base cooperate umbrella and see that the leads are all a part of the siphoned control of the church. The payroll of the apostles/prophet is also split as a chairman/board member under some of these branches. Business can function like a business and then there are portions of the business itself that's subversive to itself and practiced with extreme disciplinary measure with their double take on agenda and odd policies. The control that is facilitated through these organizations/businesses is what serves as a bias form of influence or an extension of power making up the culture of the Theocracy. In a few generations before, their influences were pretty bad as they formed a sort of censure-syndicate creating their own police within church and business dealings in the area. In times past some of these businesses had their own cloak/dagger calling themselves 'The Zion co-op' or the 'New World order'. Members didn't mess with them, or dig into it, or bad things would occur or people go missing. (Post Golden Age of Mormonism going into the Dark tyrannical managerial days) These businesses are better in reputation than in the past. Some are little more independent, but several of them have policies that they can't speak ill about the church, neither can they be against the church. If they speak ill, or they infract on their internal policies they are either fired, or if management is more zealot like, the 'trespasser'/'irreverent' is made into a public example by destroying their career reputation off the infraction + adding more persecution of disciplinary infraction, and left out of the society/ their community of faith as a heathen or apostate. (When often they themselves have done no verbal/behavioral wrong, but the measure of discipline follows its own belief course to assume its a 'Sin' out of turn/ out of policy adherence) Quite a few of these businesses have employment that require temple recommends and follow the totality of the Dogma. These businesses are more tender in environment to work with, as everyone nearly looks over each other's shoulder and look for the weak one out uproot or 'win back over' to their dogmatic collect. Other members believe that this collection of businesses is what building Zion is all about, and others believe that that is the Foundation and organization of Zion. Some other prominent businesses and MLMs copy the church's pattern and implement it into their own design to force an authority culture centering the validity of their product or to embellish the authority of their services/product when often they hold people to anti-disparagement clauses or take the same measure of pittance to discriminate and menace another's business/ distributor business on a sort of odd business theocracy on poor loose business practices and vague sense of authority to rule over their consumers/distributors and create a lot of cult like niches.

TRUTH: there is a group in the Bible called the Recabites and they made a covenant with God that they would live in tents and not drink wine. The Lord commands the prophet Jeremiah to invite the Recabites in and encourage them to drink some wine. 🥂 (Will the Recabites follow the prophet?) The Recabites uphold to their covenants they made with God and do not partake of the wine. (What does God do to them for not following His prophet?) God commends and praises 👏 the Recabites for holding true to their covenant and scripture and not relying on the arms of flesh (Prophet is considered the arms of flesh) This story shows that people should only follow the prophet if it is in harmony with the scriptures and the spirit within them and to not always put your trust in a prophet, for they can try to lead you astray just like Jeremiah did to the Recabites.

If you want to see the impact of church financial policies look at the netherland lds finance disclosure forms. They are required to list each ward donations and expenditures and each ward brings in like 100-250k € and spends like 5000.

Dear Bednar, how can you say that the church is growing when in the statistical registers of the districts there are an infinite number of people who have left and who still appear to be members despite not having come to church for decades. We are talking about almost 50%. As always, Mormon church leaders are obsessed with numbers.

How is this legal that the LDS corporation is now completely for profit and yet it asks its members for money in the name of God?!!!! I am flabbergasted!

I've heard that they count every member who's ever been baptized until they would be 114 years old. Also you forgot another entity they own- The Utah State legislature.

Dear Nemo: ANOTHER magisterial video. Your ability to recount all this calmly in a simple factual manner once again deals such an effective and devastating blow to the "foundation" this cult claims for itself. Thank you for the intense amount of work you invest to present with such clarity.

A number of years ago Henry brought David along to our stake conference he got up and spoke i can’t remember about what only I thought at the time who is this and why the fuss. Next thing I knew he was the latest new apostle guess they were showing him off. At the time I remember thinking this guy is taking snake oil salesman to a whole new level, and now I think I can say he is and has done exactly that.

Great video as always 👍🏻

@Nemo you gotta do a video with clip after clip after clip of Bednar, Holland, Eyring, etc. etc. etc. all using the word “Mormon” and clip to “victory for Satan!” “Mormon!” “Victory for Satan!” It will go viral!!!!!!

Bravo! I appreciate and look forward to your work!

Ok. First of all, I love you and you're adorable and absolutely lovely to listen to. Secondly, this is ALL true. 10/10 Bravo

Omg. Lies.

Nemo are you saying that Nelson is the richest Man on the planet? Because he ultimately own the church?

Keep it up Nemo. Your clear and plain reasoning Is much appreciated. It's also great to expose that smiling, smug Bednar for what he is-----a phony who will lie for the church.

The church doesn’t need members money, but a lot of members do. My brother is stake president and he is broke. I feel so bad for him but he pays his 10% of whatever income he gets.

Like any hard-working Pharisee, Bednar is clearly obsessed with each and every jot and tittle of every imaginary commandment that is on his list of things that the little people absolutely must do in order to be worthy of receiving ambiguous "blessings". Such an inspiring figure! Bestride the narrow path to the Celestial Kingdom, like a Colossus, he stretches forth his hand to collect the widow's mite so that she may, in so paying the toll-road fee to the Apostolic toll collector, at long last find herself approaching the pearly gates whereat she may have an opportunity to demonstrate her knowledge of secret/sacred handshakes (but only if she had a worthy priesthood holding husband who will be able to remember her secret temple name at the time of resurrection). I can't understand how some people can't see the beauty and simplicity of the gospel and the plan of salvation.

You can see Bednars contempt for honesty boiling under the surface

If the pathway out of poverty is to pay tithing, how about refunding all the tithing when this promise fails. Bednar is literally promising a service (getting people out of poverty) in exchange for them giving money to the church (tithing). If this service is not delivered, surely the person paying the money should be given a refund (with interest)!

One little fact. The church has NOT gotten rid of zoom sacrament meeting even though the pandemic is over. That way they can still count people that don't want to physically go to church. That is about 20 people in our small Boise, ID ward. They need every drop they can get.

Many years ago they tried to get the members to use the full name rather than "Mormon".

I wonder why Bednar never received the gift of speaking in tongues. Seems like it would be very important for one of God's 12 appointed apostles...

I'd love an app for my phone where I can push buttons (maybe with the leader who's talking) of all the controversial and/or contradicting soundbites!

"Attached to our name BY OUR ENEMIES? !!!". What a cad

Please let’s always call this man Susan Bednar’s husband.

The church is a business that dabbles in religion. Making money and protecting the corporation seem to be the primary objective. We are told to judge by the fruits. The "fruits" point at a business.

Thank you for your interesting contributions. Speak slowly if you can, so simultaneous translation works better. Thank you.

Your free to come as you are, your not to stay the way you are. The Goal is growth.

So…I find it interesting that they all seem to speak with this LDS Apostle voice. Kind of boring to listen to them sounding the same no matter which one is speaking.

Hey Nemo, what is the name of your outro music? :)

Great video Nemo! It was a little hard to read the text though at 360p

The suicide rate in Utah is very high especially among gay young people. This is cruelty from the church.

I view this church in the exact same light as any other organization that feels like they're doing poor people a favor by TAKING from them - when JESUS said to give TO the poor. Let's follow Jesus instead of high power religious authorities.

thank nemo

I really feel for that live translator getting blindsided by the word bigot and settling for “no..no odiamos” “we don’t hate” in a reserved tone.

Nemo, I thoughtI could trust you not to trigger me. That senile old man still triggers me. Even though my Mom said he was a work friend of hers while working as a nurse before I was born.

As I can tell and it’s very sad half the membership is inactive so if we have 16 million people only 8 million of them are going to church on a regular basis because when you deal in a Bishop rig with active families and inactive families which outnumbered the active families with each ward and they probably do out number the active families

My problem, right in to the video is Nemo uses a dubious definition of bigotry. So if we discriminate against groups we are bigots? So if we put all murderers and rapists in jail. We are discriminating against them? So what? If we say no pedophiles can teach public school apparently that makes us bigots. 🙄🙄🙄

Can anyone say hoodwinked?!?! Again!!! Well….Joseph Smith started the hoodwinking so it - the illusion - continues!

Why does bad news bednar's wife always look so tense?

Thanks!

Thank you for the fact checking and research.

NEMO PLEASE keep Fact checking and PLEASE focus more on Saints Unscripted Under 30s are especially vulnerable to this propaganda Good work keep going Mark S Warwickshire

Oh Bednar, if it’s one thing you know, it’s the numbers