These books, known as the book of mormon and pearl of great price published by the church of jesus christ of latterday saints are racist as the list of verses below show. Two are bookmarks, and the last is a word doc, so you can resi. Now that we have our standard of racism and have seen it successfully applied to known racist and nonracist texts, lets examine a few verses in the book of mormon. Those who claim that the book of mormon is racist often cite book of mormon. Mormon 5 does complicate the nonracist verses of mormon 1. Over the past two centuries, the relationship between black people and mormonism has a. Remember that the mormon version of god is not the god of the bible. Book of mormon stories with a new way to feast on the scriptures because of the advancement of technology, many people have ignored the beauty of printed texts, hard bounds, and hundreds of pages. Regarding my view of the book of mormon, i view it as scripture. Top 40 inspirational book of mormon scriptures the lifey app. Here are four printable versions of my book of mormon timeline. Opinion racism and the mormon church the new york times. Racism in the book of mormon yep, its there rational. The pearl of great price, another mormon book of scripture, describes the.
Just as progressive jews have not expunged from the torah verses like leviticus. Lds scripture church drops dark and skin of blackness from. Racism in the book of mormon mormons in transition. Another inspired scripture, according to the lds, is the book of mormon. Church leaders views stemmed from the priesthood policy and racist. That same year, a verse that used white and delightsome to. The lds version of the king james bible and the book of mormon help us to. The curse of cain or mark mentioned in biblical scripture is never said to refer to black skin. Cain is described in the book of genesis of the hebrew scriptures a. Here are some verses from 2 nephi, where nephi is describing the schism that form in his family where he and his goodly siblings separated from his less than goodly brothers laman and lemuel and their families and two emerging nations formed, the nephites and the lamanites. How we misinterpret black and curse in the scriptures.
The book of mormon was written for the intent that we may believe the bible, morm. What follows is simply the text of book of mormon passages reflecting racist notions. Do the book of abraham and the book of mormon link a. One is just the right size to fit into the front of your scriptures. Statements in the book of mormon which are non racist. The book of mormon, dark skin, and racist theology religion. Judeochristian interpretation of these verses, which predates mormonism. Still, hardy does not believe racist views are unusually prominent in the mormon scripture. The book of mormon shall stand as a testimony against the world, ether 5. Specifically, the book of mormon was prepared for our day so that we would learn and grow by readings the words of ancient prophets in the americas. These passages in mormon scripture served as the basis for every mormon.
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