LDS friend of mine says they teach if you are self-sufficient, you will be more charitable.

Kind of makes sense. You can't help other people if you are in debt yourself. Kind of a financial version of removing the plank from your own eye before trying to remove the speck from someone else's eye.

I don't buy into their theology at all, but the few Mormons I've known (in the military, or as civilian co-workers) have been nice and trustworthy. Granted, they are trained to be that way, since it helps make converts...but I'm not sure that is a bad thing. Catholics should be more that way.

Now, let's go out to BYU and leave no doubts as to the better football team.