How Modern Mormons Still Defend Racist Scripture | LDS Discussions 56 | Ep. 1924

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Can ancient scripture be reinterpreted to erase racism? Mormon apologists are attempting just that with controversial 'skin of blackness' passages in the Book of Mormon. But can these efforts stand up to historical scrutiny, or do they merely obscure uncomfortable truths? Critics argue it whitewashes history and denies lived experiences. Join us as we critically examine how modern LDS apologists attempt to explain away racist teachings in early Mormon history and scripture by comparing their modern interpretations with the information they avoid most strenuously--the original words and primary sources of the doctrines to begin with.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast I'm your
0:03.8	host John Delin it is July 29th 2024 and today we're going to be covering
0:09.6	the Book of Mormon and its teachings around the skin of blackness or the curse that according to the
0:17.2	book of Mormon God gave to the laymanites because he deemed them to be wicked and filth them and dark and loathsome and he wanted them to appear
0:27.6	disgusting to the white neophytes and so he gave them dark skin.
0:31.4	That's what the Book of Mormon says. Nowadays in 2024
0:35.4	Mormon apologists are trying to change the narrative and claim that when the
0:40.8	Book of Mormon says skin of blackness, what it really meant was something else like
0:46.2	tattoos or furs or something weird like that. This is an LDS discussion's addition of stories podcast, meaning that it's part of an ongoing series of discussions on Mormon stories to discuss
1:01.0	LDS Church Truth Claims as neutrally and as dispassionately and as objectively as possible.
1:08.6	And while we don't have the amazing Mike with us because it's summer. We have the amazing Julia with us.
1:15.2	Julia Sanders, hey Julia. Hi. Julie you did the research for this episode is
1:20.8	correct? Yes I did, yeah. And you do great work and then
1:24.4	Geraldo's kind of partnered with you on this to help make this possible. Yeah.
1:29.2	And then to maintain the LDS discussions continuity, we've got Nemo, the Mormon from the UK joining us.
1:37.6	Hey Nemo, hi.
1:39.6	How's life? How's international global superstardom since you flew down to Texas to insert your
1:48.2	British self in a wholly Texas residential issue that you had no business
1:55.8	into.
1:57.7	A lot of Texans were not happy, but then a lot of Texans were happy,
2:01.5	so you can't win them all. I'm a Texan and I'm very happy I mean I'm a Brit I'm used to just going
2:06.3	and asserting myself into foreign issues that really have nothing to do with me it's kind of comes with the
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