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Date: December 12, 2013 07:41AM
The Book of Mormon said that American Indians would turn white.
2 Nephi 30:6 caused Mormons to say that American Indians would turn white when the curse was removed from them.
"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 a delightsome people."
The doctrine and belief were so ingrained that the Mormon prophet Wilford Woodruff prayed for Indians to turn white when he dedicated the Salt Lake Temple in 1893,
"Restore them we pray Thee, to Thine ancient favor, fulfill in their completeness the promises given to their fathers, and make of them a white and delightsome race, a loved and holy people as in former days."
http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/61688/Salt-Lake-Temple-O-Lord-we-regard-with-intense-and-indescribable-feelings-the-completion-of-this-sacred-house.htmlAnd the Mormon prophet George Albert Smith also prayed for their skin color to change when he dedicated the Idaho Falls Temple in 1945.
"O Father, remember Thy promises made unto Thy holy prophets regarding the remnants of those whom Thou didst lead unto this western hemisphere, that they should not be utterly destroyed but that a remnant should be preserved which would turn from their wickedness, repent of their sins, and eventually become a white and delightsome people. May the day speedily come when those promises will be fulfilled."
http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/61725/Idaho-Falls-Idaho-Temple-We-pray-for-the-youth-everywhere.htmlIn the October 1960 LDS General Conference, Spencer W. Kimball said that the promise in 2 Nephi 30:6 was being fulfilled, and American Indians were turning white.
"For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised. In this picture of the twenty Lamanite missionaries, fifteen of the twenty were as light as Anglos, five were darker but equally delightsome. The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation."
"At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl–sixteen–sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents–on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather."
http://scriptures.byu.edu/gettalk.php?ID=1091&era=yesBut in 1981 the LDS church changed the words in the Book of Mormon. Now it says "pure and a delightsome people." The first Book of Mormon printed in 1830 said "white", not "pure".
http://archive.org/stream/bookofmormonacco1830smit#page/116/mode/2upFor 151 years Mormons believed that American Indians would turn white. Mormon prophets believed it, taught it and prayed for it to happen. American Indian children in the placement program lived in white Mormon's homes. They were thought to be turning white if they were righteous enough.
Where was the Mormon god to reveal to the prophets that there was a mistake in the Book of Mormon? Why were the prophets not told about the mistake? Those useless prophets caused sick games to be played with the minds of American Indian children. The Book of Mormon caused white Mormon prophets and apostles to expect the impossible from American Indians, that children's skin color would be changed if they were righteousness enough.