Why didn't you use the total tithes in both cases.
Because I can't invent data that I do not have? I don't have an LDS-specific total for tithes paid in the USA, probably
because the LDS themselves are not forthcoming about their finances.
the 2.2 billion was NOT the total tithing paid to The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints from 1986
It was given as the total given by LDS Charities since 1985, as reported by LDS Charities itself/themselves in the linked article from Deseret News. I am not making any other claim than this, since that's as far as the source can lead us.
yet you used the total tithes paid into Christian churches.
No I didn't, as I noted several posts ago. From post #401 (bolding by me):
Assuming wikipedia is correct, there are
6,721,032 LDS in the United States. Assuming that they are responsible for 100% of the $63 million the LDS are calculated to have given per year since 1985 (which is not realistic, but sure does simplify the math, so let's go with it; we'll do the same with Christians later, to make sure no one gets an unfair advantage, but everyone reading this should keep in mind that the same caveat applies to the Christian data,
as the survey from which that total was taken wasn't a survey of every congregation or parish of every particular Church in the country; it was meant instead as a representative sample)
Just like I would assume, therefore, that many were missed in the Christian polling (since the quoted stat of $50 billion was for "about ten million tithers", which is approximately 4.6% of the total number of Christians in the USA) -- perhaps due to not fitting nicely into the American religious landscape (I note that other stats from the same page reference Protestants specifically, so I'm assuming it's Protestant/Catholic-biased, and hence leaves out many who might describe themselves as neither) -- I would assume that perhaps many Mormons would be left out of the Deseret News article. But again, we can only go with the data that we actually have.
We pay in 6 billion a year.
In the USA
only? What's your source on this?
Because alright, let's look at it that way.
If $63 million is an accurate enough yearly figure (again, drawn from the Deseret News article's reporting of LDS Charities' own self-reported total of $2.2 billion given since 1985), then we'd have 0.0105, or about 1%, of the total yearly tithes going to charity. (In the post in the other thread, I was going based off another article from NBC News that said that the LDS earn $7 billion, not 6, but we'll go with your figure for this calculation, since it makes the total given a little bit better -- 0.0105 vs. 0.009.)
Apples to apples:
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints by members. We pay in about 6 billion a year.
6 billion divided by 6,721,032 = $892
44 billion divided by 213,000,000 = $207
Again, you haven't shown it to be "apples to apples" unless we know that the six billion is from the US Mormon population only.
What little I've been able to find suggests that this is not the case:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - If the Mormon church were a business, wealthy adherents like Mitt Romney would count as its dominant revenue stream.
Its investment strategy would be viewed as risk-averse.
It would also likely attract corporate gadflies protesting a lack of transparency. They would call for less spending on real estate and more on charitable causes to improve membership growth - the Mormons’ return on investment.
Those are a few of the conclusions that can be drawn from an analysis of the church’s finances by Reuters and University of Tampa sociologist Ryan Cragun.
Relying heavily on church records in countries that require far more disclosure than the United States, Cragun and Reuters estimate that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints brings in some $7 billion annually in tithes and other donations.
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I've bolded the part that specifically points out that this total estimate is based on extrapolations from what can be found
outside of the USA, which at least heavily implies that it is a worldwide total, though it does not specifically break down the $7 billion figure into USA vs. non-USA tithing, so we can't be sure from this source alone how that works out.
If you have something more detailed than this, I think we'd all like to see it. After all, you've been trying to make the case today in your conversation with BigDaddy4 that the LDS religion is actually transparent with its finances. What better way to prove it than to
show us all the real numbers, if you have them, and a breakdown of them in such a way as proves your assertions to me.
Yah---how much to each??? That is what the question is!!!
