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I am not claiming to be perfect or advanced in any way, but there are things I have noticed that I know can be better. I have not always felt comfortable or capable of speaking my thoughts, but I feel a great responsibility to do so.I want to say thank you to my role models who have passively and actively encouraged me to give the world my input. My self-image is finally healthy enough for me to know I have important things to say, so I want to say them.Sharing this is not a way to get praise. The only thing I deserve from this is the victory of saying what I need to say, and having the confidence to do so again. But these words were given to me by God, so I want to spread them as far as I can.Do what you want, respond how youβd like, but please donβt read through the entirety of my work without giving it thought. Donβt make me share these words in vain.
The response has been interesting, to say the least. From full support to criticism and skepticism. Click on the actual post above to see even more comments.
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This is absolutely fantastic. Thank you.
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This is so enlightening and honestly mind blowing!ΒΒ Can’t thank you enough for expanding my perspective on this and on the imperfections that exist within our church members and culture.
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I missed if this mentions the Pearl of Great Price and the Book of Moses. I would be very happy to know that this had been added upon by the brethren after Joseph Smith since he and Emma accepted black members into the priesthood and their family,
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I love this, I think it would also further your point to mention that one of the biggest reasons that the church was driven out of Jackson County, Missouri is that they were teaching and voting for abolition and this was seen as a political and economiβ¦
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Anyone who is familiar with the D&C knows that it’s full of small corrections to church policies. God apparently spoke to Joseph very often about the small discrepancies he was noticing. It’s a little strange that all the early prophets were allowed toβ¦
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Yβall that are being so mean to this girl because βsheβs whiteβ, yβall donβt know her!!!! She is A POC!!!! Sheβs Filipino!!! She is sharing her experience and love of the gospel and how she is wanting to put proper representation for Other POC.
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Thank you for making this, and for sharing your personal inadequacies and growth with respect to LDS racial doctrines. This really well done. I look forward to reading it over with my kids.I made a few comments on specific frames, but those are regaβ¦
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Interesting how we are all Confirmation bias animals that base our reality on emotions.
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Meikah! I just saw this post shared by another LDS friend. Thank you so much for making it and sharing it!
I know this is weird but I just want to cry out and hug you for being another LDS illustrator like myself. Do you or did you go to BYU or BYU-Idβ¦
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That was a deal breaker when I was thinking of becoming a LDS. I mean, wtf! Lost my respect for that religion since then.
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This is amazing. Thank you.
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This is so helpful! Thank you!
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Right, they just wrote and taught it *wrong*… for a century and a half. All the while in communication with God… who didn’t correct the issue to THIS message until now… Uh uh… in a Facebook meme… Uh huh.Totally not BS. Totally.Β
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I love your art and I think there’s a lot of great stuff in this.Β
Β Here’s a great article that explains that ‘black’ is actually a Hebrew idiom and doesn’t refer to skin tone. It’s really great and gives more detail – I think you’ll find it helpful (Iβ¦
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LDSLIVING.COMHow We Misinterpret “Black” and “Curse” in the Scriptures: Insights from an African American ConvertHow We Misinterpret “Black” and “Curse” in the Scriptures: Insights from an African American Convert
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Cognitive dissonance is one hell of a drug. Hopefully one day sheβll look at these topics again and realize the atrocities the church has done and come to the conclusion that not only are people not perfect, but the doctrine certainly isnβt either.2 Replies
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Yep, the prophets can be wrong . . . every one of them repeatedly for 126 years. But now they’re all correct. God finally got the kinks out and prophecy is working, finally. Maybe weβll stop fighting against every human rights movement. The prophetsΒ β¦
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Brigham Young did nothing wrong. Presentism is evil.53 Replies
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So much cognitive dissonance in here. So much racist apologetics. So many excuses for racist dogma.Β
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is it bad I laughed?
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Se ve todo muy bonitoLastima que no sΓ© inglΓ©s
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Omg di ka pala cursed.
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I am shocked by how many people on this post find it funny to make fun of someone elseβs (and my) religion. Such a sad world we live in. Hope yβall feel like decent humansΒ
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It’s okay though, because “the church is perfect, but the people leading (i.e. the “mouthpiece of God”) the church aren’t”Β
I just don’t understand how you can just cherry pick what the “prophet” tells you. Like what is and isn’t “from God”?Β
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Youβre very talented. Thank you for having the courage to open up a thoughtful discussion about a difficult topic.
My question: if the COJCOLDS is really the true church, guided by revelation, and if Christ really is at the helm, why didnβt God corβ¦
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Overall I find this problematic and it makes me feel uncomfortable. This is just another βwhite girl experiences how racist the church is and instead of actually learning how to fight racism, is fed more propaganda to make her comfortable again.β ThisΒ β¦
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The curse was a separation from God. As far as dark skin- the Lamanites wore loin cloths so they would get darker from the Sun. Also the picture of Jesus I grew up with was not white. But now in his Exalted state it says his countenance is as Lightningβ¦
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I used to justify these beliefs in the same way youβre doing here. Then I realized that the priesthood ban was only ended 5 years before I was born. Then I realized that the priesthood ban was ended over a decade after the Civil Rights movement. I hadΒ β¦
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Having spent the last two years going down the rabbit hole of church history, I think there is a lot of good here in acknowledging that the old answers simply do not work anymore. Saying ‘it’ll all work out in the end’ just isn’t a good answer to histoβ¦
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I understand what the intent with this comic was, and you have absolutely amazing art skills! However, this isnβt the best thing to do in contrast to dealing with the churchβs racism. After doing further study over years upon years of the churches hisβ¦
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It’s not at all accurate to call the Book of Mormon racist. Reading it cover to cover you will find one of the main overarching themes is overcoming and transcending human tribalism and becoming united as children of God in the House of Israel. PeopleΒ β¦
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this is some real mental gymnastics to make yourself feel better about being apart of a racist church
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Serving as a Mexican missionary in the New England Area, I learned lots of things about this topic, first of all, I remember being attack by a less-active member, she said I was not good enough because I was Mexican, and she was better than me becauseΒ β¦
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I struggled with the hypocrisy, racism, homophobia, and whitewashing of The Church for a long time. Everyone is on their own path in life and at different points in their understanding of church history. My hope is that if all the members of the churcβ¦
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You need to go read some of your more recent prophet’s words about skin turning “white and delightsome” through faithfulness.
And… exactly how to you excuse away the BAN on Black people being allowed the Priesthood or eternal marriages until 1978!?β¦
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This is not a fictional comic. These are real, personal life experiences. This is not a solution to racism. These are real, personal life experiences. This post was not made to hate on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This was made to sβ¦
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Had a missionaries say to me “oh no its not you guys it was the native americans” and i was likeΒis that supposed to make me feel better that your God considers darkening of skin a curse? Anyways whatever helps y’all sleep at night
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tl;dr — white girl tries to soothe her white guilt by drawing a comic and explaining away violent ideologies with “but it’s just our culture.”
Even though that’s true, it’s not helpful because it turns our racist past and present into some ambiguous,β¦
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What about your guys βnegro proclamation to the worldβ
The attitude of the Church with reference to Negroes remains as it has always stood. It is not a matter of the declaration of a policy but of direct commandment from the Lord, on which is foundedβ¦
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Wait. If the prophets donβt know what is and isnβt doctrine, then how can we?
You are saying it wasnβt doctrine, but the prophets were absolutely sure that it was:β¦
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So, America passed the civil rights acts in 1964 and 1968, but Mormons didnβt remove discrimination in their Church until 1978? So why the need for prophets if the government figured out really important stuff ten years before the prophets?
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Y’all aren’t ready to have the “Mormons in Nazi Germany” discussion yetΒ
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If Mormonism is true and I’m going to become a God one day, one of my top rules is, never ever will I allow my prophet and apostles to spout racist bullcrap and create racist “policy” or “doctrine” whatever you want to call it. As an omnipotent, omnibeβ¦
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Your church wasnβt just racist, you guys arenβt lead by god at all. All of your truth claims have been proven false. I would never defend or excuse the racism in the church. You as a white woman have no right to tell people it wasnβt that bad. Black peβ¦
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I like this for the most part. But still the whole βskin of blacknessβ curse is problematic. It makes it no better that it was supposedly the dark skin of indigenous peoples. And the ideas we hold in the church that native Americans descended from Lamaβ¦
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Thanks for sharing!
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