Posted by:
schrodingerscat
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Date: October 02, 2022 03:53PM
heartbroken Wrote:
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> Heck, back in 1978 when black males were FINALLY
> permitted to have the priesthood, racism still
> wasn't addressed.
Because it wasn’t just a ‘Priesthood Ban’ it was a complete ban an ANY blacks (people of African descent) from entering the temple and partaking in worship as equals.
It wasn’t ever about the ‘priesthood’ since women didn’t get the priesthood and they were admitted into temples all along. It is clearly is inexcusable racism, based solely upon an entire race’s skin color.
They couldn’t excuse that then and they can’t excuse it now.
They talk about the temple ban in their white paper: ‘Race and the Priesthood’
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/race-and-the-priesthood?lang=engBut their excuse is that even prophets are men and products of their day and age, and hey EVERY church was racist back then, so we are no worse than anybody else!
The main problem with that excuse is those other churches made no claim about being led by prophets who couldn’t lead their followers astray or God would sooner kill them. No other church put those racist 19th C myths in writing and called it the Word of God. And no other church refused to apologize or back down from their racist 19th C attitudes. No other church continues to claim their racist foundational scriptures is the most perfect book on planet Earth. No other church maintains the worlds largest standing army of cult recruiters to go sell the most perfectly racist book on planet Earth, long after those 19th C racist myths have been debunked by 21st C genetic evidence.
It’s long past time to call bullshit on these lying racist MORmONs.