Letter: It’s a mystery why the LDS Church needs a $100 billion nest egg

Why does a religion, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, need to build a shopping mall in the heart of Salt Lake City, operate a large insurance company, run a 228,000-acre cattle ranch in Nebraska, grow timber on 650,000 acres of land in Florida, and all the while sock away a cool $100 billion from these and countless other for-profit businesses? Is accumulating wealth the role of religion?One hundred billion dollars is difficult to comprehend. It’s the numeral one plus 11 ze