That was an interesting article, tapirrider. Thanks for drawing my attention to it.
So now, according to our resident Cultural Marxist in waiting, simply pointing out variations in human morphology is "racist."
Its fascinating - but not unprecedented historically - just how far the intellectual deterioration among the Left has progressed.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Yep. That's when we all realized that debating BC Space on the issue of racism is like debating David Duke.
No, its just that attempting to debate virtually any leftist around here is like trying to debate a hysterical teenager who just got caught by his parents hiding a box of Trojans in his sock drawer.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Droopy wrote:No, its just that attempting to debate virtually any leftist around here is like trying to debate a hysterical teenager who just got caught by his parents hiding a box of Trojans in his sock drawer.
Its 5:00 somewhere, especially where droopy lives....
"your reasoning that children should be experimented upon to justify a political agenda..is tantamount to the Nazi justification for experimenting on human beings."-SUBgenius on gay parents "I've stated over and over again on this forum and fully accept that I'm a bigot..." - ldsfaqs
I once read a story in which a wolf had sharp teeth, which were "all the better to eat you up with". I never developed an active anti-lupine bias because of this.
So what if racism is embedded in the story? I think it takes more than a story to distill an active sense of hatred toward a racial group. It would take things like racism being part of a family's overall values or perhaps later in life joining the Eagles Forum.
Droopy wrote: For people such as you, there's an "ism" and an "ist" for everything, isn't there? All the better to tar and feather those who disagree with you as beyond the pall of decent humanity, and save yourself the trouble of intellectually engaging their actual arguments, or seriously critiquing your own.
Anti-Mormonism, leftism......
So many -ism's.
But you're right, Droopy. "Race" is merely a modern leftist construct, a concept that is foreign to the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The First Presidency Statement on the Negro Question
August 17, 1949
The attitude of the Church with reference to Negroes remains as it has always stood. It is not a matter of the declaration of a policy but of direct commandment from the Lord, on which is founded the doctrine of the Church from the days of its organization, to the effect that Negroes may become members of the Church but that they are not entitled to the priesthood at the present time. The prophets of the Lord have made several statements as to the operation of the principle. President Brigham Young said: "Why are so many of the inhabitants of the earth cursed with a skin of blackness? It comes in consequence of their fathers rejecting the power of the holy priesthood, and the law of God. They will go down to death. And when all the rest of the children have received their blessings in the holy priesthood, then that curse will be removed from the seed of Cain, and they will then come up and possess the priesthood, and receive all the blessings which we now are entitled to."
President Wilford Woodruff made the following statement: "The day will come when all that race will be redeemed and possess all the blessings which we now have."
The position of the Church regarding the Negro may be understood when another doctrine of the Church is kept in mind, namely, that the conduct of spirits in the premortal existence has some determining effect upon the conditions and circumstances under which these spirits take on mortality and that while the details of this principle have not been made known, the mortality is a privilege that is given to those who maintain their first estate; and that the worth of the privilege is so great that spirits are willing to come to earth and take on bodies no matter what the handicap may be as to the kind of bodies they are to secure; and that among the handicaps, failure of the right to enjoy in mortality the blessings of the priesthood is a handicap which spirits are willing to assume in order that they might come to earth. Under this principle there is no injustice whatsoever involved in this deprivation as to the holding of the priesthood by the Negroes. The First Presidency on the Rights of the Negro
December 15, 1969
To General Authorities, Regional Representatives of the Twelve, Stake Presidents, Mission Presidents, and Bishops.
Dear Brethren:
In view of confusion that has arisen, it was decided at a meeting of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve to restate the position of the Church with regard to the Negro both in society and in the Church. ..................
The position of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints affecting those of the Negro race who choose to join the Church falls wholly within the category of religion. It has no bearing upon matters of civil rights. In no case or degree does it deny to the Negro his full privileges as a citizen of the nation.
This position has no relevancy whatever to those who do not wish to join the Church. Those individuals, we suppose, do not believe in the divine origin and nature of the church, nor that we have the priesthood of God. Therefore, if they feel we have no priesthood, they should have no concern with any aspect of our theology on priesthood so long as that theology does not deny any man his Constitutional privileges.
A word of explanation concerning the position of the Church.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owes its origin, its existence, and its hope for the future to the principle of continuous revelation. "We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God."
From the beginning of this dispensation, Joseph Smith and all succeeding presidents of the Church have taught that Negroes, while spirit children of a common Father, and the progeny of our earthly parents Adam and Eve, were not yet to receive the priesthood, for reasons which we believe are known to God, but which He has not made fully known to man.
Our living prophet, President David O. McKay, has said, "The seeming discrimination by the Church toward the Negro is not something which originated with man; but goes back into the beginning with God....
"Revelation assures us that this plan antedates man's mortal existence, extending back to man's pre-existent state."
President McKay has also said, "Sometime in God's eternal plan, the Negro will be given the right to hold the priesthood."
Until God reveals His will in this matter, to him whom we sustain as a prophet, we are bound by that same will. Priesthood, when it is conferred on any man comes as a blessing from God, not of men. ................. Faithfully your brethren, The First Presidency By Hugh B. Brown N. Eldon Tanner
Droopy wrote: So now, according to our resident Cultural Marxist in waiting, simply pointing out variations in human morphology is "racist."
What's a Cultural Marxist? Does it mean that the government should redistribute culture according to one's needs?
Anyway, Joseph Smith's Bible Fanfic doesn't so much as "point out variations in human morphology" as attribute variations in human morphology to divine retribution for sin.
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. There was the doctor in a Utah city who for two years had had an Indian boy in his home who stated that he was some shades lighter than the younger brother just coming into the program from the reservation. These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness. One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.
I wonder why it is, if skin color is not correlated with righteousness, that this Special Witness of Jesus Christ tells of how the Indian who has accepted the Restored Gospel is turning white, while his Gentile immediate family members retain their darker tone.
Darth J wrote:What's a Cultural Marxist? Does it mean that the government should redistribute culture according to one's needs?
I think he really meant "resident Culture Club Marxist"...he thinks Blixa (or possibly tapirrider) wants the government to redistribute Culture Club albums according to one's needs...
"your reasoning that children should be experimented upon to justify a political agenda..is tantamount to the Nazi justification for experimenting on human beings."-SUBgenius on gay parents "I've stated over and over again on this forum and fully accept that I'm a bigot..." - ldsfaqs
Darth J wrote:What's a Cultural Marxist? Does it mean that the government should redistribute culture according to one's needs?
I think he really meant "resident Culture Club Marxist"...he thinks Blixa (or possibly tapirrider) wants the government to redistribute Culture Club albums according to one's needs...
I need Colour By Numbers. I want the State to forcefully remove it from the home of the person who rightfully owns that album, and give it to me.