Newsroom, BYU Devotional Study, 27 October 2020 “What Will Bring Peace in Our Time of Anxiety, Racism and Other Problems? The 
Gospel of Jesus Christ, President Oaks Says…
Quoting Churchill, the former state supreme court justice counsels that ‘if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.’ … This, President Oaks said, is important wisdom for our current moment.” — Dallin Oaks
James 2:8-10 “If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”
There’s a huge problem applying Churchill’s wisdom during WW2 to what’s going on today in the LDS Church. Ignoring the Church’s racist canon doesn’t bring people to Jesus Christ, and ignoring their racist past is dangerous. They still claim allegiance to the Book of Mormon theology which reads –
2 Nephi 5:21 “And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.”
Mr. Oaks even cautioned against hiding the truth about past racism in his talk to BYU students. To read his talk in full, see Racism and Other Challenges.
IF the Church had disavowed their part in racist theology, and repented of their sins, then indeed, there would be no need to mention these things. However, this isn’t the case, and we’re still praying they would do so!
Please, pray for young minds to be protected against the lies of Mr. Oaks, and for them to question this man’s ungodly wisdom.
With Love in Christ;
Michelle
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Past racism?!?!? It’s still in their BOM and D&C!!! The only reason they stopped teaching was so BYU football wasn’t boycotted.
Liars, hypocrites — snakes!
I do believe that the Gospel of Jesus Christ can bring healing to our troubled world. I also believe that when the Mormons refer to the power of the gospel to heal that which is broken, they are referring to the Restored Gospel. The Restored Gospel, to include the words spoken by church leaders, both past and present, have brought the church to this day of reckoning. Personally, I believe that the violence, chaos, riots destruction etc, taking place on our city streets today, has got leaders of the church very worried. I believe that church leaders are currently making up excuses on why the words of such known racists as Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, are still revered and taught in the church today. The church has a tendency to forget the “real character” of their leaders and only focus on the good traits of these men, while also denying anything about these men that is not politically correct in today’s PC world.