Question for Don Bradley

[Shulem]

And this coming from someone who didn't even recognize the book in which I cited in the opening post when enquiring whether he actually wrote that.

Come on Kish, back off. Let Bradley explain himself, not you.

Wrong. I didn’t know you weren’t attributing the SC article to Don. I thought you were.

That's cryptic and tricky wording and what is SC? I'll ask before Shades does.

[Kishkumen]

We all have our biases, Kish. Your political ones are very similar to Paul’s religious ones.

Really?

Paul is the one taunting Don in a silly way. He could stand to see how his statements come across.

[drumdude]

We all have our biases, Kish. Your political ones are very similar to Paul’s religious ones.

Really?

Paul is the one taunting Don in a silly way. He could stand to see how his statements come across.

I don’t think you’re in the wrong to call out the taunting. But we all know how Paul gets, it shouldn’t be a surprise that he’s his same colorful self that he’s always been.

[Kishkumen]

That's cryptic and tricky wording and what is SC? I'll ask before Shades does.

You seriously don’t remember starting the thread with a Scripture Central article?

[Shulem]

That's cryptic and tricky wording and what is SC? I'll ask before Shades does.

You seriously don’t remember starting the thread with a Scripture Central article?

Of course I remember starting the thread with a Scripture Central article. But I could not, COULD NOT, figure out what the SC stood for so I asked you to clarify. I hope you don't think less of me for that, but I confess my shortcoming.

PS. I just watched your latest video. Good job.

[Shulem]

We all have our biases, Kish. Your political ones are very similar to Paul’s religious ones.

Really?

Paul is the one taunting Don in a silly way. He could stand to see how his statements come across.

Maybe I am taunting Don. Maybe it is in a silly way. Who can tell? But here's to hoping Don will respond to the "genetic" question, nonetheless.



lol

[Shulem]

We interrupt this program to bring you this special racial message from the white and delightsome President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

There is something that no mortal tongue can tell, when an individual realizes and knows that while proclaiming the gospel of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ he has been blessed by the inspiration of the Lord; and that was our experience in dedicating another temple to the Lord in that far-off land. The Hawaiian people have a dark skin, but their hearts are white, their loyalty to God is perfect, and the Lord Almighty has abundantly blessed many of that people by giving to them an absolute knowledge of the divinity of the work in which we are engaged.

Oh such bitter contrast! What does having dark skin have to do with anything unless you're a racist and think that being white is a privileged blessing?

[Shulem]

Latter-day Saints may refresh themselves with two testimonies born from the pulpit in the presence of the apostles and prophets in a single Conference wherein by example it is shown that through joining the church and living righteous lives it can turn your skin from dark (cursed) to white (blessed):

The first missionaries went from this section around to another little town on the east side of the island, and there they gathered in a grass hut one hundred people to hear the message of these strange white men As they all sat around the mat and heard the voice of this missionary from Utah, they were transfigured before George Q. Cannon, and he saw ninety-seven of them become white, and three of them remained dark. He did not understand. He did not know why it was that three of them would remain dark and all the rest should become light. He received a partial answer to this manifestation when it was learned that ninety-seven of those people in meeting at this time joined the Church, became devout members, lived and died Latter-day Saints, while three of them never did. It is said that they will become a white and delightsome people . They are delightsome at present, and I believe they are going to become white. They are growing whiter from year to year. I have said to myself and to some of my intimate friends that I thought the Hawaiian people would become white and delightsome, through intermarriage. I do not know whether that is according to the doctrines of the Church or not, but they have married the oriental races and married white people on the islands to such an extent that today there are more half casts than there are pure Hawaiians.

Possibly the natives appear light to us and dark to people who are not acquainted with them. When we are laboring among them we do not notice their dark skin, we are one with them. We are not two nations but one nation in the work of the Lord. I remember that twenty-five years ago, on my first mission, when I first arrived in Honolulu, I saw the little Hawaiian boys diving for pennies dropped from the boat. I thought they were dark, but they do not look dark to me today. The Book of Mormon is the only record that reveals the origin of these people, although some people have endeavored to connect them with the negro, which cannot be done.

Just recently I received a letter from one of the missionaries in the Northwestern States mission in which he recounted this experience to me. He said: "President Sloan, we called on a man and left with him a Book of Mormon." I do not know why the missionary should have done this without any explanation whatsoever as to the contents of the Book of Mormon and as to its purpose. But he said the man took the book and as he read it he found that it spoke of a wonderful people which came from Jerusalem. They lived upon this continent for a few years and then they divided and subdivided, and conflicts arose, and a curse was placed upon some of these people and a dark skin was the result of this curse. This man thought to himself, "Can this be the negro race of people?" Then as he read further along in the book he found that some day these people were to become white and delightsome again, and he could not imagine that this would be the negro people.

Bottom line: What could be worse than being born a negro?

[Shulem]

But some of the sons of Lehi rebelled and whenever they rebelled the compass would not work and they drifted hither and thither until they would repent. When they turned to the Lord the compass operated and they could steer their vessel in the direction of its destination.

They came to this country. Soon after their arrival Laman and Lemuel became rebellious and they and their group refused to listen to the advice of their father or their younger brother Nephi whom the Lord had inspired. Nephi, desiring peace, went into another section of the country with his followers and left that which they esteemed to be a better part to Laman and Lemuel and those who followed them.

What was the result? Those who kept the commandments of the Lord prospered. As long as they were faithful they were blessed and became a mighty multitude. Those who followed Laman and Lemuel because of their wilfulness were cursed with a dark skin and later became known as Indians. They lost their written language. They retained the story of their former lives and the lives of their parents by tradition. Nephi's people remained white and as long as they honored God and obeyed him were marvelously blessed.

After his resurrection the Savior visited America as he had promised and conferred upon the faithful people the same blessings that he bestowed upon those at Jerusalem. He gave them the priesthood and ordained apostles. He told them what they should do as a Church, and for two hundred years they were a righteous people. They kept his commandments and they were happy. Then came a period of wickedness and the destruction of the white race by the Lamanites.

Lucky for Don Bradley who was born white, therefore he was a worthy candidate to be ordained to the priesthood.

[Kishkumen]

Of course I remember starting the thread with a Scripture Central article. But I could not, COULD NOT, figure out what the SC stood for so I asked you to clarify. I hope you don't think less of me for that, but I confess my shortcoming.

PS. I just watched your latest video. Good job.

Thanks!

You confess your shortcomings, and we all love you for it. You are genuinely you, and you do what you want to do. I think we all respect that even when we have a different view.