Letters to the Editor - classic American pastime:

Letter: Full tithing is God’s law

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To those in the LDS Church: Was tithing not commanded by God to every single person? Indeed it was. It cannot be denied or ignored. Women are not and will never be an exception to God’s law. The idea that ‘women should pay less tithing since they have less authority’ is absolutely and completely absurd. Merely because women don’t hold the priesthood, which they weren’t created to hold, but share with their husband, doesn’t mean that tithing should be a smaller amount than men. If this occurred, they would break a law they claim to believe.

[…] Granted, we all have our own wants and needs, but I refuse to tell my Father in Heaven that I want to pay less tithing and willingly break a law He commanded me to do. I myself am a woman, but I hold a different role in life and will not compare myself to a man. Thank God for tithing and the chance to show Him at least 10 percent of my love, gratitude, and obedience.

ShaLae Marie Jenson

Eagle Mountain

Which got this reply:

Letter: God, obedience and cash

ShaLae Marie Jenson’s letter (“Full Tithing is God’s Law,” April 19) claims that paying the church is “a way to thank God and show Him at least 10 percent of my love, gratitude, and obedience.” What has always baffled me is why the creator of the universe, all physical matter, space and time, the architect of quantum mechanics, gravity, black holes, galaxies, stars and the earth itself, the author of life and maker of eternal souls, is somehow always a little short on cash. Seems strange … […]

Ken McCabe

I always wondered about that too. If God made more than 10⁹⁰ atoms, instantaneously, out of nothing, what gives with the begging for a few bacteria-laden dollars?