Latter-day Saints are not racist.

BOM= Book of Mormon LDS= The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints www.lds.org Let’s start by looking at both of those sources. Two sites dedicated to bashing Latter-day Saints, one maybe both make money off bashing LDS. Do you think they will ever stop coming up with content? The answer is of course not. Mcdonalds will never stop making burgers. Those sites will never stop coming up with propaganda. Both of those sites exaggerate LDS beliefs and make up some. Some of the stuff they say is true, but there are reasonable explanations for all of it. I can make up absurd stuff about you just like them. Con wears underwear on his head and no pants in public. Just because I said it does it make it true? LDS may have some different beliefs then other churches. We may also have some things said BY IMPERFECT HUMANS that are dicey. I concede everyone is right about that. The motto goes pull the rod out of your eye before you cast stones. Have other churches done that, do they have questionable things in their religion? Do you have things you (IMPERFECT HUMAN BEING) said that you regret? LDS believe in Prophets and Apostles who are fallible humans, as all are. Prophets and Apostles who are humans have speculated on things they believe. We all speculate on certain things. Such as who is going to win the Super Bowl etc. Not everyone who speculates on the Super Bowl is automatically right. Just like us speculating on the Super Bowl, Prophets and Apostles have speculated on spiritual things. Most of the time what they say is speculation of what they believe. As an LDS member we tend to listen to what they say on spiritual matters because they are Prophets and Apostles. Although all the side books they write are of use, but they are mostly just opinions of LDS Prophets and Apostles. An example is Joseph Fielding Smith Doctrines of Salvation. The LDS cannon are Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price. Not books that Prophets and Apostles write. Lamanites are Native Americans not Africans… In the Book of Mormon a family comes from Jerusalem to the Americas. Nephi one of the members is righteous. Laman the brother is not righteous. That is where the terms Nephites and Lamanites come from. Nephis people started off righteous in the BOM, but at varies times were not righteous. Same goes for the Lamanites started off unrighteous and flipped back in forth. At the end of the BOM neither were righteous, both at war with each other. The Lamanites were the last ones to survive. http://lds.org... That is why we refer to Native Americans as Lamanites. The BOM shows were not racist against Native Americans. It wasn’t about the Nephites dominating the Lamanites. It showed how each group fell into wickedness at different times. We believe God is no respecter of persons. Anybody who is righteous can receive his blessings and gain eternal life. Also be a member of the church. LDS also believe that it is important we convert Lamanites to the gospel. It speaks of how they will be converted in many different places in our scriptures. Lamanites will convert before the second coming of Jesus. Would somebody racist against a group, want them in their church? 5And the gospel of Jesus Christ shall be declared among athem; wherefore, bthey shall be restored unto the cknowledge of their fathers, and also to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, which was had among their fathers. 6And then shall they rejoice; for they shall aknow that it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and their bscales of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a pure and a cdelightsome people. 2 Nephi 30: 3-6 24But before the great day of the Lord shall come, aJacob shall flourish in the wilderness, and the Lamanites shall bblossom as the rose. D&C 49:24 Rebut to Nephi 5:21-23 White is considered pure, dark is considered evil. It is not about skin color because Indians are not dark like flint. White and dark are used figuratively. Dark is filthy and evil. White is good and pure. If you use that to say were racist then you must argue that all Christians are racist because that is used in the bible also. 6. For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. 7. Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: 8. Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. Lamentations 4: 6-8 D.C. Pyle notes that the Amorite people, according to Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible, I:84, were "depicted ... with fair skins, light (also black) hair, and blue eyes" on Egyptian monuments. Yet, the Sumerians said they were "dark" savages (William F. Albright, From Stone Age to Christianity, p. 166, as cited by D.C. Pyle). “The LDS Church has through the years attempted to either diminish the racist remarks of its founder or to simply conceal them.” I would like links and proofs to that please. Mormon Church Image: The Mormon Church (LDS) is trying to do anything they can do to get people to salvation. That is what it is all about saving people. We want all people to live a happy life based on Jesus Christ. The church will do anything within reason to help people live a happy life and gain eternal life. Watch the following videos: http://mormon.org... Go to the African American and Hispanic ones. 13We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, ilovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things. Articles of Faith I want you to put an emphasis on IN DOING GOOD TO ALL MEN. That doesn’t mean some men it means all men Bottom line skin color is not a measure of righteousness or acceptability by God. There are many members of all different races in the LDS religion. There are more LDS members outside of the USA then in. We have African American and all races as leadership within the church. Would a racist organization let any race in? Does the KKK like African Americans in?