77 points

$8.3 trlllion in wealth

That is like 10 times the US yearly military budget. Where are you getting these numbers from?

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No clue. I’m seeing closer to 300 billion sited.

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Nobody knows the exact number as they hide their wealth using all sorts of shady methods. We do know they had more than 100 billion in just one investment account. They also own over 1 million acres of agricultural land, and large amounts of commercial real estate. Tracking all the business entities they own around the world is also difficult as they commonly use shell companies and other methods to hide their ownership.

Any estimate you find is just a guess.

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18 points

I think they messed up their decimal point. I just made a modest donation, so they should have around $83 Trillion

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9 points

This is non-credible defense, I think you know where those numbers come from.

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6 points

Sounds like bullshit ngl number of mormons (17 million) times the average american net worth (1 million) = 17 trillion.

Does the temple literally own half the wealth of their congregation?

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They collect a tithe of 10% of members’ income from the entire congregation. Most people accumulate less than 10% of their income as net worth annually

So yes, quite possibly they do.

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Plus, they have been around fore more than 190 years. With smart investments and only 5% growth per year, your wealth doubles over 15 years. They also own land, so with land value going up they made a lot of profit if they just rent it out.

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And when those 10% get invested you get good returns… then when you have a large pool of money you can join use the TBTF cheat squads to earn a very high return with minimal risk.

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And that’s assuming that all 17 million mormons the LDS church claims to have actually exist. It’s kind of annoying to get deleted from their rolls, so a lot of people who leave don’t bother. Also, many of those 17 million live in much poorer nations than the US.

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That 17 million is a vast overestimation of their worldwide attendance. Real numbers, based off of cellphone data, are closer to 4 million.

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4 points

I was counting in Hryvnias

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48 points

Okay, so I’m not a big fan of the LDS church, but can we talk about how unironically hard that Hornet regalia goes?

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6 points

AI jet, hornet inspired but not hornet in actuality.

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6 points

Right, just change the church specific stuff to random shit and I’m 100% sold.

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5 points

I would have thought the jet in the picture was a Mexican Cartel jet.

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It’s missing the chrome wire wheels tho

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27 points

They need to save that for their spaceship

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trusting the OPA to build you a spaceship

What did they expect?

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5 points

It spinned though

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25 points

“In the name of god”

Fires sidewinder at target

“Fuck you”

Target blows up

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A good Mornon would say “Fudge you.” You ain’t gonna get a recommend from your Stake President if you use language like that.

Don’t forget to pay your tithing and fast offerings!

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Nah, fudge is for kids and Christmas. For outbursts, use “fetch,” and in this context, “screw” is appropriate.

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18 points

Wouldn’t biblically accurate fighter jets have 6 wings or something like that?

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18 points

ChatGPT4o made it, and we all know that ChatGPT is not capable of being wrong.

I also asked for a biblically accurate stealth bomber and got this:

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Looks like the new wish.com-lookin’ “stealth” bomber the Russians say they’re making, but almost certainly won’t actually produce

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No this is a King James version fighter jet.

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