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by ok_dad 1216 days ago
> Not so with church members. If they stopped attending they would have more money. They are the ones with the power. So why would a grown adult willfully hand over their money to an organization that already has all the money it could possibly need?

When people leave a church, it often comes with a cost, and that cost is too great to bear for many people who rely on family and friends and other social relationships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Mormon