# WHAT DOES AN AVERAGE TITHE PAYER PAY EACH MONTH?

This is a very difficult question to answer because not many people in this world make the same amount of money for the work that they do. Most of them will also not divulge to anyone except their church how much they pay. So how does one answer this question truthfully with the most important information missing? We shall take a guess. An educated guess though. There are about 15 million members in this church. Let’s just say that only 30% are active. Let’s say that 50% of those are tithe payers. So worst case scenario that would leave only 2 million that pay tithing. Now let’s suppose that a person makes around an average of around 2.000 dollars a month. There are a lot of people that make a lot more including the General Authorities of this church and they also have to pay their fair share. Take 10% of 2.000 dollars a month and that would be around $200.- I am just trying to be very conservative here so take that amount and times it by 2 million and what do you get? Around half a billion dollars a month give or take a hundred million. All of this money doesn’t have to be declared or even let your members who how much you take in. It is also tax free. They are right when they say that there is money to be made being a church. I know what you are thinking and that it is the Lord’s money. I would rather say that this is a heck of a lot of money being collected every month. I know that they have a lot of expenses to pay like employee salaries, luxurious buildings to maintain, beautiful temples to manage and thousands of meeting houses for its members to gather in. I can’t imagine what kind of budgets the smaller churches have in this world but one thing I am sure is that this church has come a long ways since its beginning. In worldly assets it has a lot of money and has spent a lot of it too. They have spent a lot of it in humanitarian efforts but I can assure you that this compared to the bigger picture is but a drop in the bucket. It just seems strange that a church which has its head as Jesus Christ would have so much money on this earth. It seems that if the root of all evil is money then we have the biggest tree planted right here in Salt Lake City, Utah. Now I know why the church stopped disclosing their money resources in the 1970’s. Being a non-profit organization they don’t have to disclose their money situation but being a church of GOD then I feel that they have a moral obligation to its members for them just to know what is really going on in there. This should not make a difference because if the members are truly paying their tithing for the right purpose then this should not affect their decision making. I think that the church is afraid of disclosing these figures and I don’t know why that would be the case. There should be no problem in being open about their dealings unless they truly have something to hide. Then this is a different story and it is a shame because the god of this world is the devil and like he said in the temple, you can buy anything you want with money. The more money you have the more you can make is the saying. I hope that this is not the case but money speaks and bullshit walks and numbers supposedly don’t lie unless you have the best of the best accountants.