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Originally Posted by dknightx
wikipedia is a much better and less biased source than "blacklds.org". Bottom line is, the LDS church today is in DIRECT contradiction to the beliefs of one of its greatest prophets/leaders, who, once again, stated that:
"The Lord had cursed Cain's seed with blackness and prohibited them the Priesthood."
Honestly, i couldn't care less what YOUR interpretation is, but i have to know why you think (or your leaders think) that they are right TODAY, but were oh so wrong just 30 years ago. Were the great leaders of the past being deceived by satan? were they just plain out wrong? did they misinterpret the book of mormon?
or was it that the leaders today received a special "modern revelation"? if its this, you honestly don't thinks theres anything coincidental about the timing of this "revelation"?
Finally, as you stated:
who decides what is and isn't "from the Lord", is it not the same group of people that decided black people can't get priesthood?!
So sad people can't get past ideas or beliefs of the past,thankfully, we as humans progress in knowledge and thought.
I don't know truth about the exacts and reasoning on the priesthood stuff, I just know that it's something that if it was misunderstood , it was corrected or if the Lord did not think it was time for a specific dark skinned people to have the priesthood, then he made his will known at the time he felt it should be done, prophets and apostles are there to act on behalf of God when it needs be and that 100% of the time they are humans like us making mistakes and doing there best to be in a position to know the will of the Lord. I do know that a few warts shouldn't taint all the good the church does for millions of people and the correct principles it teaches.
Believe it or not, freedom, liberty, right and wrong, common sense and peace, etc, are pretty important to be united on for society to thrive.
Seems like in this Twilight Zone world we live in everybody is confused, even most Mormons about their own doctrine on these respects, want proof? They still are voting the 2 party system and they think Mitt Romney would be a good president. lol...
I say principles over politics, freedom over socialism, peace over war, right over wrong, and I say treat others as you want to be treated.
Why do you care about the few warts when a faith does nothing but try to teach these principles to your fellow man or woman, I think you should be thankful that at least some people, among others, are striving or learning these principles, something tells me if more people subscribed to them, the world would be a better place.
