the early book of Mormon believers were RACISTS!
The present book of Mormon believers are deceived!
Brigham Young - Under The Bus
According to a recent LDS church press release, Brigham Young was solely responsible for the racist doctrine of the Mormon Church.
President Dieter Uchtdorf, during the October General Conference of the LDS Church, said: “And, to be perfectly frank, there have been times when members or leaders in the church have simply made mistakes.” He was speaking of Brigham Young.
By throwing Young under the bus and making him the scapegoat for past misdeeds, the LDS Church conveniently overlooks the racism exhibited by their founder, Joseph Smith. It was Smith who believed that holding the sons of Ham in servitude was acceptable, calling slavery a divine “curse.” The LDS Church publication, the “Messenger and Advocate,” (vol. 2, pp. 289-301, April 1836), has Smith attesting that slavery as practiced by the Southern states was ordained by God and in keeping with the “gospel of Christ.”
The racist doctrine of the Mormon Church lasted for a period of 130 years or so and only ended in 1978 due to a “revelation” from God. It leaves one wondering how LDS prophets, who supposedly have an open line of communication with and who are so uniquely in harmony with the deities they exalt, could have carried on the Smith/Young legacy of bigotry for so long.
Who was it who said God’s anointed will not lead us astray? Sure, that’s right, it was that the same guy who called slavery a divine institution. Just saying.
(Nadauld, Kent, Topic: BLACKS AND THE PRIESTHOOD, “Brigham Young - Under The Bus”, The Mormon Curtain website, Dec 23, 2013)
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