MsJack wrote:I find the hand-wringing over this kind of strange given that the Book of Mormon so prominently uses dark skin as a sign of disfavor from God.
Yes, and even the fixed up version of this in the online manual is still problematic. This isn't a study manual issue. It is a problem with core LDS scripture and 150 years of the teachings of leaders.
TSCC should just bite the bullet and purge its scriptures and racist teachings. That would be a big overhaul, but anything short of that and these types of issues will keep coming up.
Wouldn't removing the problematic Book of Mormon passages from the book be tantamount to declaring the book to be fiction and thus alterable at will? I cannot find any expectation that will happen.
You are not even going to get the church to ever declare the priesthood ban to have been a mistake. It wont happen until the whole restoration and authority idea is discarded. Not happening.
I wish that NAACP rep would have turned to Stevenson and said: "what you talking about Willis? you say my black ass skin is a sign of a curse? what curse you talking about? how come i got a sign of a curse and your lily white ass ain't got no sign of a curse? by the way if my daughter marries your son, does that take away the sign of the curse or double the curse? you Mormons got to get over this curse bulls*it!
Elder Stevenson: "that is some deep theology; i am not sure we teach that anymore and no one knows to much about it"!
Church spokesman Eric Hawkins declined to comment about whether the church would issue a statement about the manual on its website, send an email to all members, or recall the copies.
Why has the First Presidency not done any of those things?
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.