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What if someone sold children's action figures of Cain before the curse and after the curse? What if Mormon parents bought these toys of before and after to teach their children that Cain's skin turned dark because of the wrong he did? And what if these toys were understood to be why Black people ar...

"I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today.... The day of the Lamanites is nigh. For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised. In this picture of the twenty Lamanite missionaries, fifteen of the ...

This negative stereotype is harmful. It reminds American Indians of the limited ways Mormons see them and interferes with how they can see themselves. It is harmful to non-Indian LDS children too. Psychological studies have found that exposure to one negative stereotype increases the likelihood to s...

So God could be using the DNA to trick us into thinking Native Americans have Asian ancestors? Nice one. Not at all. There is nothing in the Church that would say that the Lamanites didn't merge with existing folk. Indeed, the Book of Mormon seems to imply that. So, far from a trick, the presence o...

Your reply does not address Kimball's statement of a child living with her parents in the same hogan, same environment. Kimball most clearly meant a skin color change. He spoke this from the pulpit of the tabernacle during General Conference. This has nothing to do with scriptural symbolism. It was...

President Kimball was correct..... Someone who joins the Church, is raised in it, spiritually change in their "countenances" which is another way of saying "skin". Anyone who actually has a brain to understand scriptural symbolism knows that the Book of Mormon wasn't generally t...

It is irritating when someone claims that no one knows what Lehi's DNA would look like. It would be Near Eastern. Why don't Mormons address the studies that focus on the spread of agriculture from the Near East into Europe? Those studies use DNA markers to identify Near Eastern people. It stands to ...

Drifting, I know what you are saying, but the Mormons have a problem now. D&C 28 has God commanding Oliver Cowdery to take the Book of Mormon to the Lamanites. They did, they took it to the American Indians from New York to Kansas. The principle ancestors or among the ancestors can't erase the D...

I tried to post this comment on the youtube but it is pending approval. I don't expect them to approve it. "The Book of Mormon disparagingly misrepresents American Indians, claiming their ancestors were degenerates that had turned wicked and fell from a civilized condition and became an idle, l...