just me wrote:DarkHelmet wrote:
The Book of Mormon was racist way before 1995.
But before the Internet how would faqs have been able to find out about it?
I suppose he could have read it.
Hell on Wheels..... & Mormonism..... Part Deux!
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I suppose he could have read it.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die."
- Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
- Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
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I'm okay with the whole dark/black/filthy skin idea being more symbolic. It's symbolic of the barbarian. It doesn't necessary have anything to do with pigment. It is just referring to the uncivilized and lower class. Many slaves are in this category too. This is why it was okay for Nephites to take Lamanites as slaves to help mine precious ore and build temples.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
The Holy Sacrament.
The Holy Sacrament.
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The Book of Mormon is founded on an incredibly insulting premise: That a western Judeo-Christian culture was required to explain the complexity displayed in what was seen as ancient remains of an extinct peoples.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth?
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Re: Hell on Wheels..... & Mormonism..... Part Deux!
honorentheos wrote:The Book of Mormon is founded on an incredibly insulting premise: That a western Judeo-Christian culture was required to explain the complexity displayed in what was seen as ancient remains of an extinct peoples.
Oh I don't think we've unearthed all the insults yet.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
The Holy Sacrament.
The Holy Sacrament.