Comments about ‘President Thomas S. Monson dedicates Zions Bank Financial Center’

Pres. Monson is a shining star in a dark world. May he be be honnnored for his goodness.

Come on guys... dedicating a BANK! This has nothing at all to do with Religion. What's next... Starbucks and Mustang Ranch? Anything for a buck, right?

"You can rest assured that this church doesn't put its investments and its confidence in anything that isn't stable, honorable and (having) a record of performance and integrity," he said.

Besides Babylon that is.

My how much the Church has changed over the years. you'd never find Joseph Smith embroiled in a banking institution.

"My how much the Church has changed over the years. you'd never find Joseph Smith embroiled in a banking institution."

"The Kirtland Safety Society (KSS) was a quasi-bank organized in 1836 (and reorganized on January 2, 1837) by leaders and followers of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. According to KSS's 1837 "Articles of Agreement", it was intended to serve the banking needs of the growing Mormon community in Kirtland, Ohio. Its preamble stated it was:

...for the promotion of our temporal interests, and for the better management of our different occupations, which consist in agriculture, mechanical arts, and merchandising.

However, by November 1837, KSS failed and its business closed. In the aftermath, Mormon leader Joseph Smith was fined for running an illegal bank, many bankrupted Mormons left the church because they believed Smith had established the bank in order to enrich himself and the Mormon leadership, and Smith and his associates fled to Missouri."

WHOA. As a member of the LDS church, there is something deeply concerning about this. I don't believe a church should be in the business of publicly supporting any particular financial institution, let alone offering a dedicatory prayer. I'm glad to see from the other comments that I'm not the only one raising a red flag here, but why is there not more LDS reaction to this?