So how did Mormons remove the "no Blacks" rule?

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nocturnal_traveler
10/06/2025
10:47 AM
#1
Is there a New Testament that cancels it, or are they just ignoring it for now?
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BB_mofo
10/06/2025
10:51 AM
#2
nocturnal_traveler posted...
Is there a New Testament that cancels it, or are they just ignoring it for now?

The head of their Church says he is a Prophet of God. God spoke to him directly and said he changed his mind about blacks. The real reason was that the Mormons were planning to expand into Brazil during the 70s, and most Brazilians have some degree of African ancestry.
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DrizztLink
10/06/2025
10:53 AM
#4
The Book of Mormon is a good, like, 1600 years younger than the New Testament, I don't think there was a lot of new stuff coming out.

But honestly it's because Bringham Young was a pretty successful grifter and their entire religion is barely-cobbled-together horseshit.
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lilORANG
10/06/2025
10:55 AM
#5
How you gonna be part of a religion where God himself wasn't sold on black people until 1978 lol. The goddamn US government passed civil rights before God?!
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nocturnal_traveler
10/06/2025
11:03 AM
#6
So because nothing is written, a future prophet can have another "revelation" that reverses the decision. Pretty convenient if Republicans can successfully pass all of Project 2025. At least until the Republican Christians decide to put the Mormons on the chopping block.
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HighSeraph
10/06/2025
11:06 AM
#7
nocturnal_traveler posted...
So because nothing is written, a future prophet can have another "revelation" that reverses the decision.
Technically this can happen with any religion so long as said "revelation" gains popular traction. Luckily most denominations of Christianity are distrustful if not outright hateful of one another so it'd take a pretty strong personality to unify them into one vision.
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Patriotwolf
10/06/2025
11:20 AM
#8
DrizztLink posted...
The Book of Mormon is a good, like, 1600 years younger than the New Testament, I don't think there was a lot of new stuff coming out.

But honestly it's because Bringham Young was a pretty successful grifter and their entire religion is barely-cobbled-together horseshit.

It's not anywhere near that old
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GenesisReturns
10/06/2025
11:22 AM
#9
Patriotwolf posted...
It's not anywhere near that old
Yes it is, read it again.
MarshMellow
10/06/2025
11:23 AM
#10
The world became more "woke" and they couldn't get away with their racist shit anymore while being considered a legitimate religion. They still believe whites are superior.
DrizztLink
10/06/2025
11:37 AM
#11
GenesisReturns posted...
Yes it is, read it again.
Nah, he's right, I aged up the Book of Mormon by a good 200 years or so.
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Kami_no_Kami
10/06/2025
11:52 AM
#12
They were going to lose tax exempt status, so they were like uh It has been revealed to me that um black people are totally cool now. See, look at this picture.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6c11e500.jpg
nocturnal_traveler
10/06/2025
11:56 AM
#13
MarshMellow posted...
The world became more "woke" and they couldn't get away with their racist shit anymore while being considered a legitimate religion. They still believe whites are superior.
I saw some 70s anti Mormon videos that used the no Black people rule as a selling point. Quite the coincidence that the 70s were also the time they decided to change that rule.
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Prestoff
10/06/2025
02:28 PM
#14
BB_mofo posted...
The head of their Church says he is a Prophet of God. God spoke to him directly and said he changed his mind about blacks. The real reason was that the Mormons were planning to expand into Brazil during the 70s, and most Brazilians have some degree of African ancestry.

The head of the church had a vision,

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DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC
10/06/2025
02:38 PM
#15
DrizztLink posted...
The Book of Mormon is a good, like, 1600 years younger than the New Testament, I don't think there was a lot of new stuff coming out.

But honestly it's because Bringham Young was a pretty successful grifter and their entire religion is barely-cobbled-together horseshit.
I always think back to what George Carlin wrote.

"There's still a certain mystery around the names Moses, Buddha, and Jesus. But the poor Mormons. All they could come up with was Joe Smith."
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WingsOfGood
10/06/2025
02:40 PM
#16
Mormons follow the book of Mormon

But not sure but think that book says the thing about black people
WingsOfGood
10/06/2025
02:42 PM
#17
lilORANG posted...
How you gonna be part of a religion where God himself wasn't sold on black people until 1978 lol. The goddamn US government passed civil rights before God?!

Said person is white and also "undecided" on black people
RasterGraphic
10/06/2025
02:43 PM
#18
Kami_no_Kami posted...
They were going to lose tax exempt status, so they were like uh It has been revealed to me that um black people are totally cool now. See, look at this picture.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6c11e500.jpg

Reminds me of that one Zero Punctuation where Yahtzee kept flashing a picture of him with his black friend on screen as evidence that he wasn't racist.

Say what you want about Yahtzee, that was actually pretty funny.
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