Posted in Racism in the Mormon Church, Racist Remarks by Leaders in the Church, tagged blacks not equal in Mormonism, Jesus, pre-existence, racism in Mormonism, salvation, some spirits are more intelligent than others on 02/18/2012| Leave a Comment »
Some Intelligences Greater than Others
Before Life, pg. 91-92; “God gave his children their free agency even in the spirit world…of choosing the good and rejecting the evil, or partaking of the evil to suffer the consequences of their sins. Because of this, some even there were more faithful than others in keeping the commandments of the Lord. Some were of greater intelligence than others, as we find it here…
Posted in Racism in the Mormon Church, Racist Remarks by Leaders in the Church, tagged black people condemned, Cain is black, Cain is perdition, Christianity, false doctrines, Jesus, racism in Mormonism, salvation on 02/17/2012| 3 Comments »
Who is Cain?
1958 Edition;
Mormon Doctrine, pg 108; “Though he was a rebel and an associate of Lucifer in pre-existence, and though he was a liar from the beginning whose name was Perdition, Cain managed to attain the privilege of mortal birth… he came out in open rebellion, fought God, worshipped Lucifer, and slew Abel…As a result of his rebellion, Cain was cursed with a dark skin; he became the father of the Negroes, and those spirits who were not worthy to receive the priesthood are born through his lineage.”
Posted in Curse of Cain & the Mormon Church, Racism in the Mormon Church, tagged bible, Cain, Canaan, curses, false prophecies, Ham, mormonism, racism on 02/13/2012| Leave a Comment »
Cain Cursed with no Priesthood, Black Skin & Flat Nose
Journal of Discourses 7:290; “…and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race—that they should be the “servant of servants;” and they will be, until that curse is removed…That curse will remain upon them, and they never can hold the Priesthood or share in it until all the other descendants of Adam have received the promises and enjoyed the blessings of the Priesthood and the keys thereof.” – Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, October 9, 1859
Posted in Racism in the Mormon Church, Racist Remarks by Leaders in the Church, tagged bible, false doctrines, Jesus, Journal of Discourses 1:257-258 & Genesis 1:31, mormonism, Parley Pratt racist quotes, racism in Mormonism, salvation on 02/11/2012| 1 Comment »
Blacks NOT Created with Equal Intelligence
Journal of Discourses 1:257-258; “…if all men were created alike, if all had the same degree of intelligence and purity of disposition, all would be equal. But, notwithstanding the declaration of American sages, and of the fathers of our country, to the contrary, it is a fact that all beings are not equal in their intellectual capacity, in their dispositions, and in the gifts and callings of God. It is a fact that some beings are more intelligent than others, and some are endowed with abilities or gifts which others do not possess.” – Parley Pratt, General Conference, Salt Lake City, April 10, 1853
Posted in Racism in the Mormon Church, Racist Remarks by Leaders in the Church, tagged bible, Brigham Young racist quotes, death to blacks and whites when they mix their seed, false doctrines, false prophets, grace, Jesus, Journal of Discourses 10:110-111 vs. Romans 8:1, mormonism on 02/10/2012| 9 Comments »
White Blood Mixed with Negro Blood Brings Death on the Spot
Journal of Discourses 10:110-111; “Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.” – Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, March 8, 1863
Posted in Racism in the Mormon Church, Racist Remarks by Leaders in the Church, tagged Bible Jesus, false doctrines, False prophecies by Brigham Young, mormonism, racist quotes of Brigham Young, salvation on 02/09/2012| 3 Comments »
Blacks are the Seed of Cain, Slaves
Journal of Discourses 2:184; “The seed of Ham, which is the seed of Cain descending through Ham, will, according to the curse put upon him, serve his brethren, and be a “servant of servants” to his fellow-creatures, until God removes the curse…The conduct of the whites towards the slaves will…send both slave and master to hell…The blacks should be used like servants, and not like brutes, but they must serve. It is their privilege to live so as to enjoy many of the blessings which attend obedience to the first principles of the Gospel…” – Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, February 18, 1855
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, Racism in the Mormon Church, tagged black are representatives of Satan in Mormonism, Curse of Cain is black skin, false doctrines, Journal of Discourses 22:336-337 & Genesis 4:12-16, Mormon prophet John Taylor, mormonism, racism in Mormon teachings on 02/06/2012| Leave a Comment »
Curse of Cain, Blacks, Satan Needed a Representative on Earth
Journal of Discourses 23:336 “Why is it, in fact, that we should have a devil? Why did not the Lord kill him long ago? Because he could not do without him. He needed the devil and a great many of those who do his bidding just to keep men straight, that we may learn to place our dependence upon God, and trust in Him, and to observe his laws and keep his commandments. When he destroyed the inhabitants of the antediluvian world, he suffered a descendant of Cain to come through the flood in order that he might be properly represented upon the earth.” – John Taylor, Grantsville, Utah, October 29, 1882
Posted in Blacks in the Mormon Church, Racism in the Mormon Church, tagged 1978 Mormon revelation, bible, blacks in Mormonism, Brigham Young, Curse of Cain, false doctrines, false prophecies, Jesus, joseph smith, mormonism, racism, salvation on 06/29/2011| 1 Comment »
Blacks in the Mormon Church
On February 26, 2005 I saw an article on my Google-alert that I just couldn’t ignore. It said; ‘Latter-day Saints face race issue’. This subject has always fascinated me so I clicked on the article to find out that a man by the name of Darron Smith, has written a book entitled; ‘Black and Mormon’.
Posted in Racism in the Mormon Church, tagged 1978 Revelation to accept blacks into priesthood, African Americans, bible, Book of Mormon, Jesus, joseph smith, mormonism, racism, salvation on 06/29/2011| 1 Comment »
African Americans and Utah Mormonism
If we are blessed to live long enough, we can go back in the annals of our personal lives and see defining moments that have impacted us enough to help define who we have become. We can choose to either accept or reject these events for both good and bad. It wasn’t until I got out of the Church that I realized I had experienced a few of those moments I now I refer to as my “altar moments”.
Posted in Racism in the Mormon Church, tagged bible, Jesus, racism in Mormonism, salvation on 05/09/2011| Leave a Comment »
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
If you grew up in the body of Christ I’m sure you remember that song. I first learned of it not as a child as most Christians do, but when my children came home from church to sing it to me.
I can still remember crying after hearing it the first time and asking the Lord to forgive me for taking part in anything Mormon. The song goes on to say; “Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world”.
Posted in Curse of Cain & the Mormon Church, Racism in the Mormon Church on 04/05/2011| 2 Comments »
Posted in Book of Mormon Changes, Racism in the Mormon Church, tagged Book of Mormon, changes to Book of Mormon, Lamanites, Nephites, skin of blackness on 12/19/2010| 1 Comment »
John 8:32; “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.“
If you’re a Mormon and don’t understand the Church is run by a pantheon of false teachers and prophets, I am praying their latest stunt will open your eyes to the wolf in sheep’s clothing that’s tricking each and every member of the LDS Church.
If I could scream from the rooftop of Brigham Young’s house or the center of Temple Square, this would be the time I would do it.
In June of 1978 I was sitting on my grandmother’s front porch with tears streaming down my teenaged face. I had just finished reading the front page of the Saturday evening edition of the Ogden Standard Examiner. The headlines screamed of the jaw dropping revelation proclaimed by Spencer W. Kimball.
“Blacks to Receive Priesthood”
My heart sank reading the headlines while wondering how I was ever going to know how to please this god I worshipped. I had done nothing differently to earn his good favor and had nothing of import to offer the god that sat in an exalted position from his headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.
As I’ve shared before, this was the second time in my short lived life I was living with a doctrinal change of “Elohim”.
My great-grandfather was born into LDS Church sanctioned polygamy back in the late nineteenth century. While growing up, I had visited him many times and recalled his stories of living with his mother and her four sister wives. My memory went back to him on that summer evening in ’78 and wondered what he would’ve thought of the latest revelation from the prophet.
The distance I had already felt between “Heavenly Father” and I became an ocean of mistrust towards him, filled with questions no one around me could or would ever answer. My heart was broken as I realized I would never fit in with my heritage and culture that permeated every aspect of living in Utah.
My mother’s family came from England. Everyone was very “white and delightsome”.
My father’s side of the family originally came from Wales. Some people referred to us as “black-Welsh”, all of us having black curly hair, olive skin and dark eyes. I had been taught I was “just dark enough to be dangerous” on many occasions.
While sitting through years of Sacrament Meetings, MIA, Seminary and Primary lessons, the idea of me siding against Jesus in the pre-existence was embedded deep into my psyche by the time Kimball announced his revelation from the Mormon god.
My shame ran deep each time I looked in the mirror as my coloring became a personal reminder to me that I was less than desirable in the eyes of Christ. Almost twenty years would pass before I realized those thoughts were a sin from the pit of hell.
The Mormon Church has bragged the Book of Mormon is “the most correct book on the face of the earth”. Those words were uttered for the first time by none other than Joseph Smith himself on Sunday, October 28, 1841.
“I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.”
However, when we look beneath the veneer, we see truth. The Book of Mormon has had 3,913 grammatical changes made to it since its inception. As of this week you can add two more to that total in a roundabout way.
This time the Book of Mormon is trying to fall in line with what is socially and politically acceptable regarding the race issue. They did this with the Book of Mormon back in 1981 with 2 Nephi 30:6.
Before 1981
“And then shall they rejoice; for they shall know that it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and their scales of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a white and delightsome people.”
After 1981
“And then shall they rejoice; for they shall know that it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and their scales of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a pure and a delightsome people.”
Sometimes white can mean pure, but when has pure ever meant white? This time around the Church is changing the racial overtones in its chapter headings of the online edition to the Book of Mormon. Below are the two items in question and the changes they’ve made.
2 Nephi, Chapter 5
Before the Change
“Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites are cursed, receive a skin of blackness, and become a scourge unto the Nephites.”
After the change
“Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites are cut off from the presence of the Lord, are cursed, and become a scourge unto the Nephites.”
Mormon, Chapter 5
Before the change
“The Lamanites shall be a dark, filthy, and loathsome people.”
After the change
“Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites will be scattered, and the Spirit will cease to strive with them.”
Don’t let the leadership of the Church fool you when they say the changes have nothing to do with race or the changes are not significant. These are huge changes. They’re trying to cover u p their racist ways in the eyes of the unknowing, yet the overall theme still carries the prejudice teachings of the Mormon god.
Little by little the LDS Church is changing to become more palatable to its members and the general public. If they’d just come out and repent of the heretical teachings and denounce their extra-biblical “canon”, then perhaps we’d believe them when they say something isn’t “significant”.
As it is today, their words are as clanging symbols and a ship carried about listlessly by the winds.
The main text in the Book of Mormon hasn’t changed and neither has the Pearl of Great Price, both of which are considered sacred canon. Why then, do they feel the need to change these two things? What’s the next thing that needs changing?
We pray daily for the Mormon people and hope they will begin to question why their leaders would go about confusing its members. I am convinced there are thousands of Mormons who have the same doubts and misgivings about their beloved heritage.
For more information about the changes and remarks made by Church authorities see the article in the Salt Lake Tribune.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50882900-76/mormon-book-changes-church.html.csp?page=1
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