Gord's Notebook : Book of Mormon's Racism : " Evil God Cursed " Lamanites Are Native American Indians

"In order to claim that the Native Americans are not Lamanites, one would have to admit that much of Mormon scripture and official current teaching is false."

Above quote and image below from: God and Science.org LDS Objections: Lamanites Were a Small Group in Central America

God and Science.org LDS Objections: Lamanites Were a Small Group in Central America

Doctrine and Covenants

section 28 says that the city of Zion will be built “on the borders by the Lamanites.”
* indicate that Mormon leaders were to “preach to the Lamanites”

* relates the Lamanites to the “Indian tribes in the West”

* Gospel Principles

* teaches that “The Lamanites Will Become a Great People”

Some Mormons claim that the Lamanites were only a small group of people who were geographically restricted to a particular location, such as Central America. However, other Mormon scripture indicates that the Lamanites are peoples on the North American continent.1 For example, Doctrine and Covenants Section 28 says that the city of Zion will be built “on the borders by the Lamanites.”2 Several Doctrine and Covenants Sections indicate that Mormon leaders were to “preach to the Lamanites”3 At one point, the text specifically relates the Lamanites to the “Indian tribes in the West”4 and that at least part of this boarders on the land of Missouri.5

In addition to the standard works, the standard Mormon teaching book, Gospel Principles teaches that the Lamanites are alive and numerous throughout the Americas:

“The Lamanites Will Become a Great People
The Lord said that when his coming was near, the Lamanites would become a righteous and respected people. He said, “Before the great day of the Lord shall come,... the Lamanites shall blossom as the rose” (D&C 49:24). Great numbers of Lamanites in North and South America and the South Pacific are now receiving the blessings of the gospel.”6

In order to claim that the Native Americans are not Lamanites, one would have to admit that much of Mormon scripture and official current teaching is false.

Action figures being sold by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Lamanites=Native American Indians -Mormon Racism

So Mormon children playing with these action figures is getting the not too subtle lesson that Native American Indians/First Nations were cursed by God(Elohim ) for being "evil" and bad and enemies of Christians and guided by evil spirits and /or the Devil.

Will Romney refute this sort of blatant racism.

Mormons do believe that a truly righteous Indian could become part of the Priest hood and once cleansed of sin his skin would turn from red to " fair and delightsome ". So having a red skin is a terrible affliction but being "Fair" is good in the eyes of God or the Mormon Church.
The Mormon Church also characterizes other non-whites including black Americans as also being cursed by being born black.

In the Book of Mormon the early inhabitants in North America were Lamanites. The scripture as it were characterizes Lamanites as being "evil" , brutal and ruthless . The Mormon Church has come out with actionfigures representing Lamanites and these figurines look like Native North American Indians. So they appear to be one and the same people .

Mormon Action Figures Depict Indians, er, Lamanites By ICTMN Staff at Indian Country Today Media Network.com, April 6, 2012

...What is the relationship between the Latter Day Saints and Native Americans? It is a convoluted one, owing mainly to the presence of a group called the Lamanites in the Book of Mormon. Lamanites, according to the scriptural text (which non-Mormon historians dismiss), were a non-believing people of Middle Eastern origin who lived in the Americas from about 600 BC onward.

More specifically, the Hebrew family of Nehi made the journey, and then his sons, Laman and Nephi, split up and formed two rival societies, the Lamanites, who didn’t believe in the God of Judaism (and later Christianity), and the Nephites, who did believe. There is really a lot to this story, more than we will go into here, but one of the pesky questions that Mormons have had a hard time answering is Are American Indians Lamanites? Lamanites are clearly bad people in the Book of Mormon, and in a detail that is particularly difficult to explain, they are given dark skin as a sign of their wickedness. Is this really how Mormons view Native Americans?
Perhaps it’s all just mythology from another faith that need not be taken literally. And yet — have a look at these Lamanites from a series of Mormon action figures. (A reader sent us a link to the website where they’re sold, as well as a link to this story in the Salt Lake Tribune.) Do these look like descendants of a Hebrew group who migrated to Turtle Island from the middle east in 600 BC?

Or do they just look like Indians?

King Lamoni

"Product description from website: “King Lamoni was a ruthless leader who ruled his people harshly. He often executed servants for being careless with his herds of sheep. Ammon, desiring to teach the Gospel to the Lamanites, fasted and prayed for guidance from the Lord. He became a faithful servant to King Lamoni. Recorded in The Book of Mormon (Alma 18 & 19) is the marvelous conversion to the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Lamoni, the queen, servants, and many of his people. Lamoni repented and helped his people become ‘zealous in keeping the commandments of God.’” "

Lamanite Warrior

Product description from website: “Lamanite Warriors ‘were lazy and idolatrous…wild and ferocious’ believing in the false traditions of their fathers. They trusted in their own abilities and not in the strength of the Lord. The Book of Mormon tells that ‘the heads of the Lamanites were shorn, they were naked, save it were skin which was girded about their loins…’ (Alma 3) They were armed with bows, arrows, stones and slings. ‘…They had marked themselves with red in their foreheads after the manner of the Lamanites…’ These wicked warriors ‘…reap their rewards according to their works, whether they were good or whether they were bad, to reap eternal happiness or eternal misery…’”

laman both Mormon Action Figures Depict Indians, er, Lamanites

Laman is available in two versions. The one on the right has been cursed by God with dark skin for his wickedness.

Product description from website: “Laman, the oldest son of Lehi and Sariah, was stubborn, hard-hearted, and did not believe in the righteous teachings of his father, Lehi. The Book of Mormon records that Laman was so rebellious that he refused to listen when an angel from the Lord told him to change his behavior. Laman was a troublemaker and seldom helped his family. His wickedness caused his parents a great deal of pain and sorrow.”

Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/06/mormon-action-figures-depict-indians-er-lamanites-106890 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/06/mormon-action-figures-depict-indians-er-lamanites-106890#ixzz212j2hcDa

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The Mormon Curtain: Lamanites Original Author(s): Infymus LAMANITES - SECTION 1

The Introduction to the Book of Mormon explains that the Lamanites, the last surviving Book of Mormon people, are "the principal ancestors of the American Indians." This means all North American Native Americans are Lamanites. All South American Natives, including Mayan, Mexican, Peruvian - all are Lamanites. This also includes those of the Polynesian islands.

In November of 2007, the Mormon Church changed the Introduction to the Book Of Mormon from "they are the principal ancestors" to "they are among the ancestors of".

The two major groups in the Book of Mormon are the Nephites and the Lamanites. The Lamanites were originally Nephites who broke off early and began their own race. A "skin of blackness" was placed on the Lamanites for disobedience to God while the Nephites were allowed to remain white.

"And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, and they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them." (2 Nephi 5:21)

Mormonism has changed much of the core doctrine including the Book of Mormon to try and remove "White and Delightsome" with "Pure and Delightsome" - as if God himself wrote the doctrine incorrectly when Joseph Smith translated it.

The Mormon Church has an extensive history of trying to breed out the blackness in tribes such as the Navajos of Utah. Navajo children were adopted into white Mormon families where the Navajo was stripped of his/her identity. Schools were set up to "re-educate" Native Americans leaving enormous scars on the Navajo families and children. Mormon Prophet Spencer W. Kimball remarked that Navajo children placed in white families were several shades whiter than children still on reservations.

The Mormon Curtain and the Ex-Mormon community find the word "Lamanite" to be a racist term. Today the Mormon Church is again on a PR move to clean away the term of Lamanite. The use of the word to describe Native Americans has dropped considerably. This is both due to the fact that no proof exists that Native Americans were Lamanites - and latest DNA evidence showing Asiatic decent and not Hebrew.