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You want me to return to the Baptist Church. When I was growing up, you cannot imagine the evil horrible comments I heard from Baptists about Black people and they used the “n” word regularly. Those were the Baptists I grew up with, pal. And they taught that speaking in tongues was from the devil. “Once saved, always saved.” I knew something was wrong.

Catholics are into Mary too much. I knew something was wrong, at least for me. It was fun to be a Pentecostal. You get to dance and jump and down and have a great ol’ time. What happened there was the healing message got me confused. They say they believe in miraculous healing but no one ever gets healed. Come on, FReeper pal, it’s confusing.

One preacher preaches one concept and another preacher preaches the exact opposite!! And most of the churches I attended put down Mormons.

When I say “authority” - I mean it’s settled for me. Once and for all. Jesus Christ is the Head of my Church. Jesus is my Savior, Redeemer and Soon Coming King. I love Him so much and appreciate so much His Atoning Sacrifice for me and for the whole world. It was Heavenly Father’s Plan and the Holy Ghost is my Witness.

And we have no paid clergy. I like that. My Bishop, bless his heart, has to put up with all the horrendous problems we create, and he does not get paid for all he does for us. Poor guy; I feel sorry for him. We have no paid clergy. We are a peculiar people. And don’t even get me started on the wonderful LDS Missionaries and all the good work our Church does all over the world. I am so happy to be a member of this Church.

You believe the way you want to; I will believe the way I want to. Thanks. Ain’t America grand?

When I was growing up, you cannot imagine the evil horrible comments I heard from Baptists about Black people and they used the “n” word regularly.

Saudra, when I was growing up, YOU cannot imagine the horrible comments I heard from Mormons about Black people and the "N" word was not only used regularly, it was used almost exclusively every time a Mormon would refer to a black person. That is the honest truth.

After I left the Mormon Church, I went to a Southern Baptist Church for a while and never heard anyone there refer to Black people in the derogatory manner in which I had heard Mormons refer to them. Back when I was growing up, the Mormons were teaching that the reason people were born black was because they were less valiant in the pre-existence and the black skin was a curse from God.

You've been a Mormon all of 8 years. You were obviously not exposed to the type of racism that was commmonplace in the Mormon Church back in the 1960's when I was growing up. Now the Southern Baptists have their bad history too, but I don't think it was born out of a belief that black people were born black because they were cursed by God. It was just a natural prejudice that is part of our sinful nature. I would venture to guess that if you went to a Southern Baptist Church today, that you would not hear such blatant racism as you were exposed to.

Those were the Baptists I grew up with, pal.

And those were the Mormons I grew up with "Pal".

I am ashamed to say that this kind of prejudice was rampant in my extended Mormon family. When I was growing up, Mormons believed that Blacks were an inferior race and that it was a blessing to be "White and Delightsome" and how it was a reflection of how valiant we were in the pre-existence not only to be born "white and delightsome", but to be born into a Mormon family.

That peculiar doctrine appears to have been changed and the Mormon Church now will not even admit that it taught such demonic doctrines in the past. Talk about contradictions and hypocrisy.