I Have Questions wrote: ↑Fri Jan 30, 2026 9:15 am
I think it is impossible to span the divide between writing on LDS history in a faith promoting way and being intellectually honest. The two things are mutually exclusive. LDS “historians” have to make the choice between one or the other. Something has to be sacrificed - faith, or integrity. Red pill or blue bill. However, given the personal tragedy that Don and his family have suffered, I think he is in the best space to process such a thing.
Thank you for your comments.
Allow me to present
George Reynolds who added his testimony to that of the brethren concerning the curse of
dark skin that covered Lamanite bodies. I want to entertain you (Dr. Shades) and anyone else who happens to be reading this thread and maybe someone who is sucked into the cult will finally give way and realize their past leaders were teaching unenlightened doctrine and were racist men who patterned themselves after the ways of the world. Hence the influence of Holy Ghost
® of Mormon-yesterday was racist and didn't like dark skin! Elder Reynolds was a well known Church writer and the Secretary of the First Presidency for 39 years! Elder Reynolds was greatly involved with everything that happened in the top echelons of the Church including the polygamy case before the Supreme Court, George Reynolds v. United States.
Suffice it to say, his writings reflected the belief held by the General Authorities of the Church and his position on the curse of dark skin was the doctrine held by every Latter-day Saint, hence the entire Church, lock, stock, and barrel!
The Contributor, Mutual Improvement Association, George Reynolds, 1884 wrote:History of the Book of Mormon
They next sent missionaries to preach to the inhabitants of the land of Zarahemla and the regions stretching into the far distant north. They labored with great effect and abundant joy, and a universal peace, such as had never before been known since the
division of the two races, extended over the whole land.
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But even before this blessed era the union had become so complete that it is recorded (A. C. 13),
"that those Lamanites who united with the Nephites were numbered among the Nephites, and their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites, and their young men and their daughters became exceedingly fair, and they were numbered among the Nephites, and were called Nephites." It is also exceedingly consoling to know that the greater part of this race belonged to the Church of God, and even when complete apostasy darkened the annals of the Nephites, a few. Lamanites were still found who remained faithful and true under every change of fortune and in every variety of circumstance. Those who remained in unbelief fraternized with the robbers, and continued in the savageness of former generations.
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In the year A. C. 231, a great division occurred, and the people were again divided into two strong contending bodies, who assumed the old names of Nephites and Lamanites* But there was a great difference between those opposing races and those who had borne the same names in centuries past. The Nephites of this age were the true believers in Christ, while the new Lamanites, (whatever their pedigree) had not dwindled in unbelief, but had wilfully and knowingly rebelled against the truth, and their children, through the wickedness and abominations and false teachings of these fathers, diminshed in everything that was good— in knowledge, in handicraft, in civilization, and also in beauty;
for now they were a white and lovely people, but soon the old skin of darkness — the fit companion of their filthy habits and mark of God's displeasure— came upon them.
The story of the Book of Mormon, Elder George Reynolds, 1888 wrote:The story of the Book of Mormon
The condition of the Lamanites was now pitiable ; they had cut themselves off from the presence of the Lord, the priesthood was withdrawn from them, the records and scriptures were beyond their grasp. Hatred and malice reigned supreme in their souls ; they had no inclination for the arts of peace; they were restless, cunning and idle, whilst they sought in the wilderness the food necessary to sustain life. Already the curse of God was falling upon them.
Lest they should appear pleasant to Nephite eyes, their fair and beautiful skins grew dark and repulsive, their habits became loathsome and filthy, and this same skin of darkness came upon the children of all those who intermarried with them.
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Next year Ammonihah was destroyed. Less than four months had elapsed since the two inspired followers of the Lamb had left it to its fate, when the Lamanites fell upon it like a whirlwind in its suddenness, and as an avalanche in its utter desolation. The
dark skinned warriors of Laman swept over these murderers of the saints like a tempest of fire, leaving neither young nor old, babe nor grandsire, to repeat the story of their woes. Not one of Ammonihah's boasting children was left to defy heaven.
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Onward swept the invading host; backward fled the defenders of the commonwealth, and backward they continued until every town and city, every tower and fort, from Melek to Moroni, from Manti to Bountiful, were filled with the savage, half-disciplined,
dark-skinned warriors of Laman.
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In confirmation of the testimony of the Book of Mormon, that the inhabitants of this continent were
once a white and beautiful people, it may be stated that when very ancient burial places in North and South America have been opened, the remains of two races —
one dark and the other fair — have been exhumed.
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It was also the grand trunk road to the land of Nephi, and adown its banks poured the hosts of the
dark skinned invaders when they forced their way into the land of Zarahemla.
And that is the testimony pertaining to the dark-skinned Lamanites and the curse that came upon them to include the
GENETIC (Don Bradley) consequences of the mixing of seed between a light colored person and a dark colored person.
So, where is Don Bradley, now? Is he going to come here and defend the dead brethren? How hardly! Shame on you, Don. I don't believe you are working under the guise of transparency and honesty. I think you are a fake. Prove me wrong!
(gloves are off)
