Moksha wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 8:08 pm
This whole idea of creating religious writings to extol the racism of the day should be embarrassing enough for the Church to consider removing the Book of Abraham from its canon.
Right.
We touched a little on the awful racism that was so prevalent in Mormon doctrine in the early days of the Church in my other thread:
Anubis in Facsimile No. 3 and Mormon Deception.
The Book of Mormon is not without its own problems dealing with racism and name calling in which to label people of color in a derogatory manner. Note how a fair people are cursed by having their white and delightsome skins changed into a
skin of blackness whereby these wicked people are classed as a
flint -- hence, the
negroes flints! The expression given in the Book of Mormon is nothing short of sanctimonious name-calling! Nephi’s statement is repugnant, vial, and hateful!
2 Nephi 5:21 wrote:And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.
Nephi continues (2 Nephi 5:22-24) to rail upon the flints as a lazy and loathsome people full of all manner of wickedness. But then he takes it to a whole new level of hateful racism when he charges those who dare mix their seed with the flints and that even their children will receive the same cursing as the wicked parents. In other words, the sins of the parents are upon the heads of the children.
Book of Mormon racism reflects what was in the mind of Joseph Smith and was subsequently incorporated into Mormon doctrine and priesthood. The whole thing is disgusting. But there you have it. The Lamanites were like dirty flints -- black, loathsome, and lazy -- including, I dare say, the flint children! Welcome to Mormonism!
Jersey Girl, are you there?
A Lamanite flint:
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