1665: Race & Mormon Scripture Pt 2 w/ LDS Discussions - 22
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 148 minutes
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Summary
Join us for Part 2 of our discussion on Race and the Book of Mormon. Today Mike and John go over the various apologetics for the apparent racism in the Book of Mormon and early Church leaders, from denying those particular scriptures are literal, to saying “everyone was racist back then” and of course, breaking down the various problems each creates for a Church said to be built on the basis of revelation to modern prophets.
1663: Race and Mormon Scripture Pt 1 w/ LDS Discussions - 21
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories Podcast, LDS Discussions |
| 0:04.8 | Edition. |
| 0:05.8 | I am John DeLin, one of your hosts for today. |
| 0:09.0 | We are in sort of the middle of what is a heart-wrenching episode within the LDS Discussions |
| 0:15.8 | series. |
| 0:16.8 | The title of today's episode is Race and the LDS, or Mormon Scriptures Part Two. |
| 0:22.5 | Yeah, this is the second half of a really, really difficult, painful, embarrassing, and heart-wrenching |
| 0:30.4 | discussion about the history of race in Mormon Scripture, and LDS Scripture, and racism |
| 0:36.8 | in Mormonism and in Mormon Scripture, from the time of Joseph Smith to the present. |
| 0:43.0 | We are in Part Two because in Part One, we covered that last time to begin with, I just |
| 0:48.6 | want to make sure everybody knows that all of this is coming from the amazing work of |
| 0:53.3 | a man we call Mike, his website is LDS Discussions.com, and he has a series of essays there amongst |
| 1:00.6 | other pieces of content, but in this case, the essay is LDS Discussions.com slash race. |
| 1:06.0 | That's the essay we're basing these two episodes on, and if I were to summarize what we covered |
| 1:10.9 | last time in a minute or less, and I would just encourage everyone to please go and watch |
| 1:16.9 | that episode before you watch this one. |
| 1:19.7 | These episodes really do build on each other, but just as a way to recap what we covered |
| 1:23.9 | last time, we talked about how three of the main examples or products of Scripture that |
| 1:29.8 | Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, created, including the Book of Mormon, the |
| 1:33.8 | Book of Abraham and the Book of Moses, all three rely on deeply racist narratives that |
| 1:39.8 | fit perfectly into 19th century frontier America. |
| 1:44.6 | And Mike and I were very committed to making episodes that aren't felt or experienced |
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