Is It A Sin To Be Born Black?
Do you agree with the past President and Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, John Taylor when he said that the black race was safely brought through the flood for this reason? "And after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham's wife, as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? Because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God;..." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 22 pg. 304).
The Prophet Joseph Smith answered a question in reference to the Negro in this life, quoting:
"I replied, 'they came into the world as slaves, mentally and physically." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith pg. 269).
"Had I anything to do with the Negro, I would confine them by strict law to their own species". (IBID pg. 270)
That is basically the same thing that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, wanted to do with the Black Race but she didn't just want to confine them, she wanted to make them sterile, and abort their children, etc. (Check Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America)
A pamphlet entitled, "Plan Your Children for Health and Happiness" said, "What is birth control?... Is it an abortion?
(ans.) Definitely not. An abortion requires an operation. It kills the life of the baby after it has begun. It is dangerous to your life and health. It may make you sterile..." (Planned Parenthood Brochure, Oct. 1952)
Not only did she favor abortion, but she proposed forced sterilization for those whom she considered unfit to reproduce. She worked hard for a "race of thoroughbreds" until Hitler's similar "Master Race" made her goal unpopular. She was a true eugenist. For example, her April 1933 Birth Control Review, devoted an entire edition to eugenic sterilization.
Who did she consider unfit?
Black people, Jews, Southern European immigrants (especially Italians), but also others of 'low I..Q.' These 'feebleminded' people were a 'menace to the race.'
E. Drogin, Margaret Sanger: Father of Modern Society
CUL Publishers, 1980, Section 1
Let's quote from her 'Plan for Peace,' which was a little more than peaceful genocide. She wanted the United States:
"To keep the doors of immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as the feebleminded as determined by Stanford-Binet I.Q. tests.
"To apply stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
"To insure the country against future burdens of maintenance for numerous offspring as may be born of feebleminded parents by pensioning all persons with transmissible diseases who voluntarily consent to sterilization.
"To apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for a period of their entire lives. [Practically speaking, a concentration camp.]
"[To] take an inventory of the secondary group such as illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes, dope fiends; classify them in special departments under government medical protection, and segregate them on farms and open spaces as long as necessary for the strengthening and development of moral conduct." (Again, concentration camps.) M. Sanger, "Plan for Peace,"
Birth Control Review, vol. 16, no. 4, April 1932
ABORTION, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
by Dr. & Mrs. J. C. Willke
copyright 1985
This mindset comes from those who believe in evolution. Evolution is a religion that teaches man got here by chance and hence nothing is really right or wrong, that the black man and any color woman is closer to the monkey than the white man since Darwin was pushing this type of thinking.
Darwin reasoned that as a married man he would be a "poor slave,... worse than a Negro," but then reminisces that, "one cannot live the solitary life, with groggy old age, friendless...and childless staring in one's face...." Darwin concludes his discussion on the philosophical note, "there is many a happy slave" and shortly thereafter, married (Darwin,1958:234).
(Darwin, Charles. 1896. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. New York: D. Appleton and Company.)
Darwin concluded that adult females of most species resembled the young of both sexes and from this and the other evidence, "reasoned that males are more evolutionarily advanced than females" (Kevles, 1986:8). Many anthropologists contemporary to Darwin concluded that "women's brains were analogous to those of animals," which had "overdeveloped" sense organs "to the detriment of the brain" (Fee, 1979:418). Carl Vogt, a University of Geneva natural history professor who accepted many of "the conclusions of England's great modern naturalist, Charles Darwin," argued that "the child, the female, and the senile white" all had the intellect and nature of the "grown up Negro" (1863:192).
(Kevles, Beltyann. 1986. Females of the Species: Sex and Survival in the Animal Kingdom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.)
(Fee, Elizabeth. 1979. "Nineteenth-Century Craniology: The Study of the Female Skull." Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 53:415-433.)
(Darwin, Charles. 1896. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. New York: D. Appleton and Company.)
Darwin's Teaching of Women's Inferiority
Institute for Creation Research,
Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.
IS DARK SKIN BECAUSE OF SIN AND IS IT CONDEMNED IN MORMON SCRIPTURES?
In the Book of Mormon, II Nephi 5:20-21"Wherefore, the word of the Lord was fulfilled which he spake unto me, saying that: Inasmuch as they will not hearken unto thy words they shall be cut off from the presence of the Lord. And behold, they were cut off from his presence. And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; 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."
THIS MENTALITY IS STARTING TO FADE AWAY...
This is starting to fade into the background and will completely disappear if the Mormon Church has their way. They are seeking to get away from their prejudice attitude just as Planned Parenthood is doing. They are changing their books to line up with their new beliefs.
In II Nephi 30:6 we read,
"And then shall they rejoice; for they shall know that it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and their scales 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 delightsome people."
The "pure and delightsome" was "white and delightsome" in all the Books of Mormon until after their 1980 edition. But they haven't changed their book enough yet. Let's verify their prejudice attitude still today in their Book of Mormon by reading III Nephi 2:14,15 which says,
"And it came to pass that those Lamanites who had united with the Nephites were numbered among the Nephites;
And their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites;"
So we see that it still has to do with skin color.
Read Alma 3:6-11
In verse 9 we see, "And it came to pass that whosoever did mingle his seed with that of the Lamanites did bring the same curse upon his seed."
So those who were "White and delightsome" and mixed with the "cursed race" or black race based on Mormonism their children will be "cursed" with the skin of blackness.
II Nephi 5:20-21-24
To bring more insight to what we just saw in Alma, based on these verses, we see that the this skin of blackness that he is going to curse the people with will make them loathsome to his people. So from this, those who are white and delightsome and don't think the black race is loathsome would be in sin themselves. Wouldn't that be a correct assumption based on the way it is worded here?
Prophet Brigham Young asks a queston and it goes like this, "Why are so many of the inhabitants of the earth cursed with the sin of blackness?" (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 11 pg. 272).
He answers his question by telling those listening that they rejected the power of the holy priesthood and the law of God on page 272 of the same book above.
"Cain, Ham and the whole Negro race have been cursed with black skin, the mark of Cain, so they can be identified as a "caste apart". A people with whom the other descendants of Adam should not intermarry." (Mormon Doctrine, Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, pg. 114)
Bruce is showing me that God's word in the KJV is not true, that he does look on the outward appearance and not the heart as he says that he does in II Sam. 16:7. If he really did curse them with black skin then he wouldn't have to look on the heart, he could just look on the outward appearance and see who are the "sinners" and who are the "saints".
"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind. The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have been a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race...that they should be the "servants of servants;" and they will be, until that curse is removed; and the abolitionists cannot help it, nor in the least alter that decree. How long is that race to endure the dreadful curse that is upon them? That curse will remain upon them, and they can never hold the Priesthood or share in it until all the other decendants of Adam have received the promises and enjoyed the blessings of the Priesthood and the keys thereof. "
(Journal Of Discourses, Vol. 7, pgs. 290-291)
Negroes in this life are denied the priesthood; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty. (Abra. 1:20-27)
(Mormon Doctrine, pg. 527, Bruce R. McConkie )
"Shall I tell you the law of God in regards to the African Race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so." (Journal Of Discourses ,Vol. 10, pg. 110, Brigham Young).
In the Mormon Scripture, The Pearl of Great Price", we read, "For behold, the Lord shall curse the land with much heat, and the barrenness thereof shall go forth forever; and there was a blackness came upon all the children of Canaan, that they were despised among all people." (Moses 7:8)
The Mormon church now teaches that god has just lifted the curse of Cain from you. They want you to believe that if you join the Mormon Church, pay 10% of your income or more, go to the Temple and swear blood oaths of allegiance to their church, wear an underwear garment (all Mormon missionaries wear them) all of your life, and are worthy in all things, you too, when you die, will go to a new world and become a Mormon God, with many wives.
And, best of all, the Mormons will be happy to tell you that you will turn white and delightsome, just like God and them!!!
CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT???
Do you really believe all of the doubletalk and confusion in Mormon literature or do you believe the word of God which says, "And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;" Acts 17:26
In closing I was mentioning prophets in the above information so from what we have seen so far, would you call them true prophets or false prophets?
I like what one Christian brother said who is a scientist, "We are really one race, the human race." So in reality, it is not a skin problem, it is a sin problem. Enough said!
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