#nephites

[seraphimfall]

i’m sorry but even if your personal version of mormonism excludes all the “if you’re a good mormon your skin will turn white when you die, no matter your race” and “dark skin is a sign of the devil” bs, your religion is still racist.

the idea that israelites sailed across the atlantic ocean and formed a population in north america that could be attributed to native americans is racist.

the idea that jesus christ appeared to native americans and converted them to christianity pre-colonial times is racist.

the idea that the arrival of christianity to north america with european colonialism was a prophesied “reintroduction” of christianity is racist.

the foundations of your religion are racist.

the foundations of your religion are historical negationism.

the foundations of your religion justify american colonialism as the will of god.

try as hard as you want, it’s impossible to remove racism from mormonism. it’s racist by nature.

#|| the disciple || #ex mormon #exmo #ex lds #exvangelical #ex christian #ex catholic #lamanites #nephites #ex cult #apostate #ex fundie #deconversion #atheist #religious trauma #ex religious #apostasy #deconvert #leaving the church #losing my religion #ex fundamentalist #deconstruction

[superreader30]

#The Book of Mormon Podcast #Christ Centered Conversations #Latter-Day Saints #Latter-Day Saint Podcasts #Book of Alma #Nehor #Nephites #Lamanites #Reign of the Judges #Priestcraft #Gideon #Spotify

[wasmormon]

Updated lyrics to the popular primary song to be more historically correct (complete with hand motions): Book of Mormon stories that my teacher told to me Were about the Lamanites, but lack historicity... Read the lyrics at: https://wasmormon.org/truth-behind-the-book-of-mormon-stories/ (link in bio) #liesmychurchtoldme #exmo #exmormon #sundaschool #liesmyprophettoldme #bookofmormon #mormon #mormonstories #primarysongs #mormonprimary #history #mormontruthclaims #mormontruthcrisis #mormonfaithcrisis #faithdeconstruction #poetry #liesmyteachertoldme #postmormon #lamanites #nephites https://www.instagram.com/p/CmZpgWMuszW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[americaisthetrueoldworld]

Prophet Joseph Smith was Black

Prophet Joseph Smith was Black

Prophet Joseph Smith (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was a Black man, and he was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was 24, Joseph Smith published the Book of Mormon. By the time of his death, 14 years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religion that continues to the present with millions of global…

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#Angel Moroni #Blackamoors #Captain Moroni #Gothic Architecture #History of the Mormons #Lamanites #Moorman #Moors #Mormons #Nephites #Prophet Joseph Smith #Prophet Moroni #prophet Muhammad #The Book of Mormon #The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints #Utah is Judah

[atlas-affogato]

Having an hour long conversation with my brother about the Mormon fantasy books we read as kids and now I have to reread all 13 books and make a video essay about them so I can explain how absolutely wild they are

#half joking about the video essay thing i dont know how to do that #but no one knows about Tennis Shoes Among The Nephites and those books were my childhood #absolutely wild #exmormon #exmo #exlds

[warrenwaskilledbyadeer]

They're making a full-scale movie about the Book of Mormon?!?! Moroni?!?!?! I'm in Los Angeles not Utah and I just saw the trailer in the movie theater HUH??????? Nationwide release?? Since when are we this mainstream??

#they said the word nephites and me and my brother's heads WHIPPED around we were just like ?!?!?!?!? #book of mormon #the book of mormon #church of jesus christ of latter day saints

[bildswoman]

When the BoM starts talking about the Nephites getting silks and fine-twined linens and gold and silver and all manner of precious things and you know exactly what's about to happen 

#book of mormon #nooooooo nephites don't become lifted up in the pride of your heart's #lds church #lds

[lemuel-apologist]

so as an exmo who grew up in utah, was tennis shoes among the nephites popular in other states as well, or just one of those 'utah valley only' things?

I think we got our copies of the first few Tennis Shoes books before we moved here, and a family I knew DEFINITELY had them. People having read them definitely increased when I moved here, though.

Not "Utah Valley Only" but definitely "Utah Valley Dominant."

#i hadn't actually read them until the summer we moved here i think. #like i had TRIED. and i read Daniel And Nephi. #but that summer we were moving and we were homeless for a while. and the first thing we did after finding a place #was we went to this bookstore in town and got a bunch of old Friend mags and some more Tennis Shoes books (plus others) #and we didn't have a tv (duh) so i REALLY dove in #checking the mail #tennis shoes among the nephites #exmo

[kiwipit]

thinking abt all the mormon written and targeted children's fiction books i read as a child

#so soso so sooooo many #soundbooth; #tennis shoes among the nephites. to start #chris heimerdinger was like Thee mormon fantasy adventure novel for kids lol

[ramshacklefey]

It's amazing to me just how good the Mormon church has been at hiding just how bad they really are from public view. Even the shit that gets spread around is the relatively harmless bullshit. They had a crazy prophet with magic glasses. They believe in god-mandated polygyny. They think everyone who is good enough will get their very own planet after the world ends. They wear magic underpants. Mormon men are all paladins.

Here's one of the ones you hear less often:

See, like many other Christian sects, the Mormons really do believe that the existence of Christ obviates the existence of Judaism. Judaism was just a placeholder until the "real" church could be established by Jesus.

And the Mormons in particular believe, dead ass, that the entire inheritance of Israel has been given to them, because the Jews failed to recognize the Messiah when he was on Earth. They really do. They have this whole system where people are given a "divine revelation" about which of the Tribes of Israel they're a member of (don't worry, they decided that most people belong to the two tribes that are willing to "adopt" people. Only the most specialest boys and girls are members of the original ten).

Let's sum up so far. The Mormons believe that they are the people of Israel, chosen and protected by God. If Jews want to get back in on that party, they can always repent and convert to Mormonism, the one true church to which God gave all the rights and blessings that were originally bestowed on Abraham's house.

But it doesn't stop there!

The Mormons also believe, in all seriousness, that all Indigenous peoples of the Americas are descended from a small group of Jewish people who left just before the fall of Jerusalem (~600 bc iirc). Their entire weird-ass extra bible is a chronicle of those people's history in [unspecific part of America]. At the very beginning of the book, two brothers in the original family turn away from god, so they and all their descendants are cursed with dark skin, so that the good Nephites (who remain "white and delightsome") will always be able to tell themselves apart from the wicked Lamanites.

So, you've got supposedly Jewish people running around the Americas. And the "good" ones are white, and the "bad" ones are brown. Then, ofc, Jesus comes to visit them (I guess supposedly that's part of what he was doing during his dirt nap? Or possibly after he left again, it's not clear), and they all convert to Christianity, which they think is clearly the natural evolution of Judaism. Well, at the end of the book, all of them become wicked, in a kind of weird pseudo-apocalyptic series of events. They are all cursed with dark skin, until such time as they repent for their ancestors sins and return to the gospel.

But of course, Mormons being the good and kind people they are, they want everyone to receive the blessings of God and be brought into the houses of Israel etc etc. And it isn't the fault of those poor little Indigenous children that their distant ancestors turned away from God and became wicked.

So what's the natural answer? Well, Mormons are real big on missionary work, as we all know. But apparently that wasn't enough in this case.

Because the Mormon church has been one of the big players in abducting as many Indigenous children as possible, in order to indoctrinate them into being good Mormons, so that they can turn white again and be blessed. My mother remembers hearing talks about this in the 70s and 80s. The church literally had a "Lamanite Adoption Program," where families in the church were encouraged to get as many Indigenous children as possible away from their families and not let them be reunited until they were fully assimilated and ready to go back and proselytize about how wonderful the church is.

The church leadership literally talked about how wonderful it was to see these children becoming whiter. Actually whiter. Like, saying that when they finally saw them with their families again, it was beautiful how much paler they were.

I'm pretty sure this program has been officially ended, but it doesn't take a genius to speculate about who might be behind the curtains on the movement in the western US to gut the ICWA....

So yeah. Next time someone tries to tell you that the Mormons are just harmless weirdos, please remember that they're an antisemitic cult that advocates for the forced assimilation of Indigenous children to help them escape the cursed brown skin of their ancestors.

#cw mormonism #mormons #exmo #and this is still barely scratching the surface of how fucked up that organization is

[thebrindleartist]

Mythical March: Quetzalcoatl by TheBrindleArtist

#mayan mythology #quetzalcoatl #feathered serpent #myth #classical mythology #mythology #tennis shoes among the nephites

[gay-mormon-wizard]

#mormon #lds #queerstake #book of mormon #book of mormon memes

[nerdygaymormon]

Are you willing to condemn the racism the Mormon church has taught you?

The church has been wrong on Racism, Patriarchy, Misogyny and Anti-queerness.

One message that is given in scriptures in different ways is that God loves us all and treats us the same, and we should do likewise.

Deuteronomy 10:17 - For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.

Mark 12:31 - The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

John 13:34 - “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Acts 10:34 - Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism

Romans 2:11 - For God does not show favoritism.

Romans 10:12 - For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him,

Galatians 3:28 - There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 3:11 - Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

2 Nephi 26:33 - ...black and white, bond and free, male and female; … all are alike unto God

Furthermore, the Book of Mormon can be seen as a cautionary tale about a group of violently racist misogynists who wound up getting annihilated explicitly because they would not stop being violently racist misogynists. It also teaches that pride and wealth inequality doom civilizations. Too many Mormons view the Nephites as the heroes of the Book of Mormon and want to be like them, but D&C 38:39 warns us, "lest ye become as the Nephites of old."

[apollos-olives]

There are more than 45,000 denominations of Christianity globally. No denomination believes the same thing. It’s really weird, but yeah, some Christians believe in an eternal hell, some believe that everyone is going to heaven, some don’t believe in the Bible literally, some take the bible VERY LITERALLY, etc. Some people Mormons even believe that black people are cursed!

in 1957 Joseph Fielding Smith taught that the "dark skin was placed upon the Lamanites so that they could be distinguished from the Nephites and to keep the two peoples from mixing. The dark skin was the sign of the curse.

And in 1974 the Church published a pamphlet entitled "Lamanites and the Book of Mormon" which stated that the "Lamanites were marked by the Lord with a darker skin."

Whether this is taught anymore, idk, I’m not Mormon. But it’s always interesting to know new things.

MORMONS BELIEVE WHAT

#my producer is a mormon #😶

[latter-day-saint-nick]

I'm visiting my family in Iceland, and there's a big statue of the Saviour in the chapel here. My two-year-old niece often points at the scars in the Jesus statue's hands and says, "Boo-boo!"

So now I have an image in my head of when Christ visited the Nephites and Lamanites and blessed all their children. Maybe he picked up a tiny Nephite child, too young to understand what the scars meant, only knowing that she was being held by a kind man in the shiniest clothes she'd ever seen, and she touched his palms and exclaimed, "You have a boo-boo on your hand!" And Jesus smiled at her full of love and said with a laugh, "That's right, dear child. I do have a boo-boo on my hand." Maybe He even let her kiss it better before blessing her and healing all her wounds.

I don't know, but I can't stop thinking about it.

#lds #tumblrstake #jesus

[churchblog]

I'm wayyy too lazy to figure out how to make a Tumblr fake post, but something something

-Nephi calling out the nephite side of tumblr

-his post blows up

-people are upset

-he tells them that the chief judge will be trending because his brother will make a cancellation post

-some bloggers go to check,and see it's true

-They deactivate and get blamed

-The group thinks nephi said it to start drama

-nephi tells them where to find the receipts

-brother is called out and deactivates

#queerstake #tumblrstake