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I really don't know much about this. I do know that the church banned African-Americans from the priesthood until the 1970s. (On the other hand, apparently Joseph Smith Jr. had ordained an African-American in the early days of the church, so...) -- SJK There is no conspiracy, there is simply a lot of religions and we should not hold one religion to be more true than other ones. Claims of 10 million church members does not make your religion the True Faith, it makes it a religion that claims a large membership. Each religion here should be taken in the context of other religions and of it's social history. Previously these articles tended to take everything said by this church at face value and this does not make for good encyclopaedia articles. If the LDS church allows its leadership to edit texts that are supposed to be divine revelations from mythical ancient people from their God then this is a very distinctive feature of this religion. So such comments can not be a strawman as people might be expecting the LDS church to behave like other religions and be prone to citicism if they are shown to edit their texts. -- Aristotle |
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I really don't know much about this. I do know that the church banned African-Americans from the priesthood until the 1970s. (On the other hand, apparently Joseph Smith Jr. had ordained an African-American in the early days of the church, so...) -- SJK |
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