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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 you’d like, but please don’t read through the entirety of my work without giving it thought. Don’t 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!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 economi…
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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 to…
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Y’all that are being so mean to this girl because “she’s white”, y’all don’t know her!!!! She is A POC!!!! She’s 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 rega…
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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-Id…
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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.
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I love your art and I think there’s a lot of great stuff in this.
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 (I…
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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 she’ll 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 isn’t 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 we’ll stop fighting against every human rights movement. The prophets …
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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.
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Caprisha Ragas
is it bad I laughed?
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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 else’s (and my) religion. Such a sad world we live in. Hope y’all feel like decent humans
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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”
I just don’t understand how you can just cherry pick what the “prophet” tells you. Like what is and isn’t “from God”?
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You’re 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 didn’t God cor…
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Overall I find this problematic and it makes me feel uncomfortable. This is just another “white 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.” This …
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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 Lightning…
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I used to justify these beliefs in the same way you’re 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 had …
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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 histo…
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I understand what the intent with this comic was, and you have absolutely amazing art skills! However, this isn’t the best thing to do in contrast to dealing with the church’s racism. After doing further study over years upon years of the churches his…
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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. People …
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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 because …
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