Originally posted by Sparko
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"I say now, when they [his discourses] are copied and approved by me they are as good Scripture as is couched in this Bible" (Journal of Discourses, v13 p26)
And let's not forget the claims he made about Joseph Smith such as how you needed to believe in him and gain his permission in order to get into heaven:
"and he that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is Antichrist" (Journal of Discourses, v9, p312)
"no man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith" (Journal of Discourses, v7, p289)
"no man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith" (Journal of Discourses, v7, p289)
And then there are his views about blacks and slavery:
"In our first settlement in Missouri, it was said by our enemies that we intended to tamper with the slaves, not that we had any idea of the kind, for such a thing never entered our minds. We knew that the children of Ham were to be the "servant of servants," and no power under heaven could hinder it, so long as the Lord would permit them to welter under the curse and those were known to be our religious views concerning them." (Journal of Discourses, v2, p172)
"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race—that they should be the ‘servant of servants’; and they will be, until that curse is removed; and the Abolitionists cannot help it, nor in the least alter that decree." (Journal of Discourses, v7, p290)
"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so." (Journal of Discourses, v10, p110)
"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race—that they should be the ‘servant of servants’; and they will be, until that curse is removed; and the Abolitionists cannot help it, nor in the least alter that decree." (Journal of Discourses, v7, p290)
"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so." (Journal of Discourses, v10, p110)
Young declared to the Utah Territorial Legislature on January 16, 1852 Young that "any man having one drop of the seed of [Cain] ... in him cannot hold the priesthood and if no other Prophet ever spake it before I will say it now in the name of Jesus Christ I know it is true and others know it." Notice how he claims that he says this as a "prophet"
While many other religious leaders said similar things none of them were claiming to be prophets who's teachings were on par with the Bible. In light of this trying to dismiss his racism as merely a view shared by many other people in his time just doesn't cut it.
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