Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 10


Chapter 9
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 Chapter 11

Claims made in Chapter 10: Changing the Anti-Black Doctrine

Page Claim Response Author's sources

291-293

 It was taught that the denial of priesthoods to blacks was due to some behavior in the pre-existence.
  • Alma 3:6
  • Race Problems—As They Affect The Church, Address by Mark E. Petersen at the Convention of Teachers of Religion on the College Level, delivered at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 27, 1954"

294

 Blacks were said to be the descendants of Cain.
  • The authors fail to note the the so-called "Curse of Ham" was a Protestant invention used to justify the practice of slavery.
  • [[One_Nation_Under_Gods/Use_of_sources/Double_standard_on_race|Protestant critics: double standard on race issues}}
  • Origin of the ban
  • "Curse of Cain" and "curse of Ham"?
  • History of the Church 4:501
  • Mormon Doctrine, 1958. p.102
  • Journal of Discourses 7:290
  • Mormon Doctrine, 1958, p.477
  • Journal of Discourses 22:304

296

 Brigham Young said the the penalty for marrying a black person was "death."
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