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==A FAIR Analysis of the online document ''Letter to a CES Director'' section "Other Concerns & Questions"== | ==A FAIR Analysis of the online document ''Letter to a CES Director'' section "Other Concerns & Questions"== | ||
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|claim=The author states, "Estimated $5 billion megamall City Creek Center: Total Church humanitarian aid from 1985-2011: $1.4 billion | |||
Something is fundamentally wrong with 'the one true Church' spending more on a multi-billion dollar high-end megamall than it has in 25 years of humanitarian aid." | |||
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*The 5 billion dollar figure refers to the cost of the ''entire Salt Lake City downtown redevelopment project'', referred to as "Downtown Rising." The City Creek Center cost $1.5 Billion. Other projects include the following: | |||
**Utah Performing Arts Center | |||
**Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse | |||
**Six Gateway | |||
**Questar Corporate Headquarters | |||
**Jessie Eccles Quinney Center For Dance and Capitol Theatre Renovation | |||
**Public Safety Building | |||
**Public Market | |||
**Convention Center Hotel | |||
**Utah Theater | |||
**City Creek | |||
**Gallivan Plaza | |||
**Harmons City Creek | |||
**The Leonardo | |||
**222 South Main | |||
**O.C. Tanner | |||
*Details about these projects may be viewed at [http://www.downtownrising.com/ Downtown Rising] | |||
*These claims are ill-informed and simply false. | |||
*The motivation for the Church's involvement in a project of this scope is described in an extensive interview with Presiding Bishop H. David Burton: "[http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700014610/Mormon-leaders-and-Salt-Lake-City-work-together-to-transform-land.html?pg=1 Mormon leaders and Salt Lake City work together to transform land]," ''Deseret News'' (7 March 2010). | |||
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Doug Smeath, [http://www.deseretnews.com/article/660205772/Downtown-renovation-project.html "Downtown Renovation Project,"] ''Deseret News'', March 27 2007 | |||
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Money for the project is not coming from LDS Church members' tithing donations. City Creek Center is being developed by Property Reserve Inc., the church's real-estate development arm, and its money comes from other real-estate ventures. | |||
</blockquote> | |||
|link=Mormonism and church integrity/City Creek Center Mall in Salt Lake City | |||
|subject=City Creek Center Mall in Salt Lake City | |||
|summary=Members and critics have questions about the Church's involvement in the redevelopment of the city center in Salt Lake. | |||
|link2=Mormonism and church finances/City Creek Center | |||
|subject2=Financing of City Creek Center | |||
|summary2=Critics of the Church claim that the Church-financed redevelopment project in downtown Salt Lake City known as City Creek Center has been funded using tithing. | |||
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====Names of the Church==== | ====Names of the Church==== | ||
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|claim= The author states, "After deciding “Church of Jesus Christ” on April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith made the decision on May 3, 1834 to change the name of the Church to, “The Church of the Latter Day Saints”. Why did Joseph take the name of “Jesus Christ” out of the very name of His restored Church? The one and only true Church on the face of the earth in which Christ is the Head?" | |claim=The author states, "After deciding “Church of Jesus Christ” on April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith made the decision on May 3, 1834 to change the name of the Church to, “The Church of the Latter Day Saints”. Why did Joseph take the name of “Jesus Christ” out of the very name of His restored Church? The one and only true Church on the face of the earth in which Christ is the Head?" | ||
|answer= | |answer= | ||
*The only name for the Church established by revelation was the one mentioned in DC 115:3. | *The only name for the Church established by revelation was the one mentioned in DC 115:3. | ||
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