Skin color and sin

[20/20hind]

I just dont understand the theology regarding this concept.

And the the church changing the dark and loathsome part of the bom.

The whole thing is really absurd to me.

[Enoch Witty]

It's because there is no theology, it's just garden-variety racism.

[Red Ryder]

What's so hard to understand?

God is white. His son is middle eastern.
If you're righteous, you're white and delightsome.
If you're unrighteous, you date a Kardashian!

What's really crazy is the difference in dominion. The unrighteous are longer than the righteous. Once you go unrighteous you don't go back. Unless you repent or something. Shouldn't the most righteous get more priesthood responsibility? I guess this is hard to understand. Really really hard to understand.

Why is God so cruel?

[Zack Tacorin Dos]

I just dont understand the theology regarding this concept.

And the the church changing the dark and loathsome part of the bom.

The whole thing is really absurd to me.

I know, right? I mean, since I became disaffected from the Church and began to participate in debauchery like drinking coffee, it seems that my skin is becoming even whiter as I try to keep my Anglo skin out of the sun because of the concern I have at my age regarding the risk of cancer. As one of the chosen, who held the office of high priest in the holy order of the Melchizedek priesthood, shouldn't I be quite dark by now since I've turned my back on all that was "revealed" and given to me? /s

Well said that "the whole thing is really absurd."

[Corsair]

What's so hard to understand?

....

Why is God so cruel?

In LDS terms, the answer to this appears to be Amos 3:7

Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

This is the missionary and seminary scripture proclaiming the need for prophets. There are no real checks and balances on prophetic inspiration. Trust in the prophets is held virtually equivalent to trust in God.

[Stig]

It's because there is no theology, it's just garden-variety racism.

^^^^This. 20/20 and I having served in the same mission in the southern U.S., this issue bothered me a great deal, even as a missionary; when you spend so much time among people who would have been denied certain "blessings" of the church prior to 1978, it's very hard to reconcile such a doctrine with what you see around you.

[2bizE]

I think Lowry Nelson (Google him if you haven't read his letters) had some excellent discussion on this in his letters between George Albert Smith. He suggests ethnocentrism is the reason. Ancient Egyptians enslaved blacks because the whites thought they were better than blacks. Other ethnic minorities would also have been enslaved if they had known about them.

[20/20hind]

I think god totally is turning me dark. I have been putting spf 50 on everyday, yet my skin keeps getting darker.

It must be all that beer drinking and evil speaking of the lords anointed.

Stig, it makes me sick that i thought the way i did. But its how i was raised to think. Glad im out now, with a new appreciation and world view that see's beyond skin color.

[Meilingkie]

Why does the frauds and adulterers in our Church not turn brown then??
Why do the brown sisters not turn white then??

It´s just a sham, pure and simple.
Apartheid is a Dutch word.

[Hagoth]

It was so convenient in American frontier times to have the undeserving killers of the original superior white race conveniently marked when rounding them up and marching them off to concentration camps.

[moksha]

Just so we are all on the same page, skin color has nothing to do with sin or righteousness. Pale skin color has to do with recessive genes and vitamin D production.

[Meilingkie]

Yup Hagoth, those Jews were a bit harder to round up in the forties........ compared to blacks.

Except in Holland, we had a civil register where all jews were mentioned by name+adress in 1935 already,
Our German Overlords were very thankful for that when they dropped by 5 years later.

[Give It Time]

Gosh, I love this point. I'm pasty white and always have been. I mean people need to shade their eyes.