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Re: Mormons History of Racism!!!!

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Don Seer:
denial.

i'm sure you'd face problems trying to marry a nice muslim arab girl too.

Woodrow:

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I've spent plenty of time building with Muslims from Pakistan at mosque's and Muslim gatherings.  Race has never been an issue.  It's all love.

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I don't care how much time you've spent with people from Pakistan...

Have you been to Pakistan?

Trauma-san:
Well, since Overseer is displaying his usual openmindedness, I'll tackle the "racist mormon' problem, in open, for everyone to judge.  

Up until 1978, Blacks were not allowed to be priests in our church.  To be married in a temple, you have to be a priest.  The simple reason for this?  The church holds that we are the 'restored' church of jesus christ.

Why? because the church needed to be restored, after being corrupted by the catholic church, which was originally true (at Peter's time) but over the centuries, was manipulated and distorted.  Anyone will admit this.

Now, the church was to be restored as soon as feasibly possible.  Christ and God picked Joseph Smith, in new york, to restore it to.  The time was 1823.   History will tell you that blacks were still slaves in 1823, and considered second class citizens in america.  

Joseph Smith, even WITHOUT allowing blacks to be priests into his restored church of Christ, was persecuted, eventually killed (he was shot and pushed or fell out of a second story window while in prison), the mormons were chased west, to Salt Lake city (which they founded and settled).  Their temple in Navoo was destroyed.  Hundreds died on the trip west, starved to death, some were even frozen to death travelling across america in the winter, pushing hand carts. While in Salt Lake, the president James Buchanan sent an army to Salt Lake to kill Brigham Young, destroy the temple, and establish their own governor.  The saints were smart enough to bury the temple foundations, so when the army arrived they found nothing.  

All this WITHOUT blacks being in the church.  Why were they not allowed to be priests? Because the lord was re-establishing his church on the earth, and it barely made it without the persecution that would have came with black men sitting next to white women in a racially charged america.  

In 1978, the prophet received a vision that it was time, and america was ready for blacks to be treated equally, so they passed a vote by unanimous decision in our general conference to allow blacks to be priests.  

Why weren't blacks allowed to be priests until 1978? Because the church never would have survived, and that's the way god intended it to unfold.  

Trauma-san:
Oh, and he deleted all this junk attacking my religion too, lol.  Glad he came to his senses.  At least, I hope that's what happened.  I hope I didn't destroy his argument, so he slunk away in defeat.  

King Tech Quadafi:

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I don't care how much time you've spent with people from Pakistan...

Have you been to Pakistan?
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i have, and im very light skinned and i have never witnessed persecution like that,

another isolated incident getting the spotlight....

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