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Brigham Young
2nd President, LDS
Declared "The only
men who become
Gods…, are those
who enter into
polygamy"
(Journal of Discourses, Vol.
11, p. 269, August 19, 1866).
As we have witnessed the
expansion of the work of the
Lord over the earth… This, in
turn, has inspired us with a
desire to extend to every worthy
member of the Church all of the
Spenser W. privileges and blessings which
Kimball 1978 the gospel affords.
…we have pleaded long
and earnestly in behalf of
these, our faithful brethren,
spending many hours in
the upper room of the
Temple
supplicating
the
Spenser W.
Kimball 1978 Lord for divine guidance.
The vote to sustain
the foregoing motion
was unanimous in
the affirmative.
Spenser W.
Kimball 1978
Salt Lake City, Utah,
September 30, 1978
He [God] has heard our
prayers, and by
revelation has confirmed
that the long-promised
day has come…
Spenser W.
Kimball 1978
Salt Lake City, Utah, September 30, 1978
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LDS Magazine
“The Juvenile
Instructor”
p.157
LDS Magazine
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Not folklore
Not spurious
Doctrinal
Church Endorsed
Teaching
The Negro Curse of Cain
LDS Juvenile Instructor, October 15, 1868, p. 157)
The Negro Curse of Cain
LDS Juvenile Instructor, October 15, 1868, p. 157)
The Bible:
Man looks at the outward
appearance, but the LORD
looks at the heart.”
1. Considered Scripture
by the LDS Faith
2. Basis for most Racist
views in the LDS past
The Genesis of the
‘Book of Abraham’
A. In 1835 Joseph Smith purchased a collection
of mummies and papyri from Michael
Chandler, who was traveling through Ohio.
B. One Scroll of Egyptian papyri ‘translated’
into The Book of Abraham; now in Pearl of
Great Price
B. Published in 1842, in LDS the churchowned ‘Times and Seasons.’
Translation or Interpretation?
Dr. James R Clark, of Brigham Young University,
noted: “we know approximately how much
material was translated from each character.“
Pearl of Great Price Conference, Dec. 10, 1960, 1964 ed., pp. 60-61
In one Case Joseph Smith derived 177
English words out of the word "Khons"
- the name of an Egyptian moon god!
http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/fallofbookabraham.htm
In the Church there was a
restriction on the priesthood
for male members of African
descent. It is not known
precisely why, how, or when
this restriction began in the
Church but what is clear is
that it ended decades ago.
Washington Post piece by Jason Horowitz. Feb. 29, 2012
“God has
always been
discriminatory.”
in a Washington Post piece by Jason
Horowitz. Feb. 29, 2012
Racist Book of Abraham
In 1961 when a reporter asked
LDS President David O. McKay
about the basis for the policy of
restricting blacks from
priesthood, he replied that
“it rested solely on the Book
of Abraham. That is the only
reason… It is founded on that.’”
("David O. McKay and Blacks," by Gregory A.
Prince, Dialogue, Spring 2002, p. 146).
Professional Egyptologists
Regarding the Book of Abraham
To these the Alphabet and Grammar
was submitted for examination … One
of them, I. E. Edwards said the whole
work was "largely a piece of
imagination and lacking
in any kind of scientific
value."
(Charles M. Larson By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus, pages 42-43)
Observations
Book of Abraham
What did Joseph
Smith teach
regarding the Negro
Curse?
LDS Church Founder
Joseph Smith Jr.
In 1836 Joseph Smith
stated: “…I can say, the
curse is not yet taken off
from the sons of Canaan,
neither will be until it is
affected by as great a power
as caused it to come…”
(History of the Church, vol. 2, p. 438).
LDS Church Founder Joseph Smith Jr.
“… from Ham, sprang
that race which
preserved the curse
in the land.
(Pearl of Great Price,
Book of Abraham, 1:21-27).
LDS Church Founder Joseph Smith Jr.
Regarding Ham:
“…Noah, his father
…cursed him as
pertaining to the
Priesthood.
(Pearl of Great Price, Book of
Abraham, 1:21-27).
Regarding Joseph Smith,
LDS Church Founder
President Young
declares that Joseph
Smith was a pure
Ephraimite. This
is true…
10th LDS President Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., Doctrines
of Salvation, Vol.3, p.253 - p.254
Joseph Smith,
A pure Ephraimite?
• Ephraim is ½ African
(Genesis 41:50)
• If Africans are cursed, then
what about Joseph Smith?
Mormon Apostle: Mark E. Peterson
Said that "If there
is one drop of
Negro blood in my
children, as I have
read to you, they
receive the curse.“
(Race Problems—As They
Affect The Church, page 7)
• An
Ephraimite has a gallon
Remarks on
Book of Abraham
A. Is a Bogus Book
B.Is a Racist Book
C.Is a Not Scripture
Primary source for the Book of Abraham
(in PGP)
• Sentenced millions to a curse;
• Abuse, discrimination, and degradation
• Modern archeology has shed light on
this document as being misrepresented
• As such, the LDS Faith should reject it.
Conclusive DNA Evidence
Resulted in a Change
in the introduction of
the book of Mormon
Each president of the LDS
Church is ordained as a
“Prophet, Seer and Revelator."
Mark W. Hofmann
Mark W. Hofmann with Church Leaders
President = “Prophet, Seer and Revelator."
Joseph Smith Papyri is
really in the same category
1. Church to distance itself from book
of Abraham
2. Admit that new Archeology has
shed light on the papyri
3. Move to expunge the ‘book of
Abraham’ from the LDS Scriptures
Break
The Lemba of Southern Africa
• These are Found in
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South Africa and
Zimbabwe
Mozambique
Malawi
• A significant number of Lemba men carry a
particular haplotype of the Y-chromosome
known as the Cohen modal haplotype (CMH),
as well as, a haplogrup of Y-DNA Haplogroup J
found amongst some Jews…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemba_people
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MORMON Church President
Brigham Young
You can see men and
women who are sixty or
seventy years of age
looking young and
handsome; but let them
apostatize, and they will
become gray-haired,
wrinkled, and black, just
like the Devil
(Journal of Discourses, Brigham
Young, October 7, 1857, vol. 5, p.
332).
President Brigham Young
President Brigham Young
A black skin is a mark of
the curse of Heaven placed
upon some portions of
mankind. . . . …When God
made man in his own image
and pronounced him very
good, that he made him
white. We have no record of
any of God's favored servants
being of a black race. . . .
LDS magazine Juvenile Instructor ran a series of
articles on race from October 1868.
President Brigham Young
Where the children of God to
mingle there seed with the
seed of Cain it would not only
bring the curse of being
deprived of the power of the
priesthood upon themselves
but they entail it upon their
children after them, and they
cannot get rid of it.
Speach by Gov. Young in Joint Session of the Legeslature.
Feby. 5th 1852 giving his veiws on slavery.
President Brigham Young
It is a great
blessing to the
seed of Adam to
have the seed of
Cain for servants,
Speech by Gov. Young in Joint Session of the Legislature.
Feb. 5th 1852 giving his views on slavery.
In His Book: Mormon Doctrine
Regarding Negroes… this
delegation of authority from the
Almighty. (Abra.1:20-27.)
The gospel message of
salvation is not carried
affirmatively to them… negroes
are not equal with other races
where the receipt of certain
spiritual blessings are
concerned… It is the Lord's doing, is based
an his eternal laws of justice, and grows out
of the lack of Spiritual valiance of those
concerned in their first estate.
(LDS Apostle; Bruce R. McConkie ; Mormon Doctrine, 1966, pp. 527-528)
LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie
LDS Apostle
Bruce R. McConkie
Cain, Ham, and the whole
negro race have been
cursed with a black skin,
so they can be identified
as a caste apart, a people
with whom the other
descendants of Adam
should not intermarry.
(Mormon Doctrine, 1966, p. 114)
The Bible:
Then Miriam and Aaron spoke
against Moses because of the
Ethiopian woman whom he had
married; for he had married an
Ethiopian woman. (NKJV)
Numbers 12:1
Break
Racism in the Book of Mormon
". . . wherefore, as they were white and
exceedingly fair and delightsome, that
they might not be enticing unto my
people the Lord God did cause a skin
of blackness to come upon them.”
(2 Nephi 5:21)
Racism in the Book of Mormon
Behold the Lamanites your brethren, whom
ye hate because of their filthiness and the
cursing which hath come upon their skins . . .
(Book of Mormon, Jacob 3:5).
O my brethren, I fear that unless ye shall
repent of your sins that their skins will be
whiter than yours, when ye shall be brought
before the throne of God
(Book of Mormon, Jacob 3:8).
• Returned Missionary
• Committed serious
Crime
• Crime knows no
complexion
Racism in the Book of Mormon
“…for this people shall be scattered,
and shall become a dark, a filthy, and
a loathsome people, beyond the
description of that which ever hath
been amongst us, yea, even that
which hath been among the
Lamanites, and this because of their
unbelief and idolatry
(Book of Mormon, Mormon 5:15).
President Brigham Young
You may inquire of the intelligent of the world
whether they can tell why the aborigines
of this country are dark, loathsome,
ignorant, and sunken into the depths
of degradation; …When the Lord has a
people… then, if they transgress his law… he will
put a mark upon them, as in the case of the
Lamanites and other portions of the house of
Israel; but by-and-by they will become a white
and delightsome people
(Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, p. 336).
Let the Mormon Scriptures Inform
Book of Moses (Pearl of Great Price)
“…there was a blackness came upon all the
children of Canaan, that they were
despised among all people …” (Moses 7:8)
"And . . . they were a mixture of all the
seed of Adam save it was the seed of Cain,
for the seed of Cain were black, and had
not place among them (Moses 7:22)."
Let the Mormon Scriptures Inform
Book of Abraham (Pearl of Great Price)
". . . from Ham, sprang that race which
preserved the curse in the land
(Abraham 1:24).”
"Now the first government of Egypt was
established by Pharaoh, the eldest son of
Egyptus, the daughter of Ham, . . . Noah, his
father, who blessed him with the blessings of
the earth, . . . but cursed him as pertaining to
the Priesthood. (Abraham 1:26-27).”