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| | #REDIRECT[[Repudiated ideas about race#Joseph Fielding Smith: "We know of no scripture, ancient or modern, that declares that at the time of the rebellion in heaven that one-third of the hosts of heaven remained neutral"]] |
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| ==Criticism==
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| *Critics claim that LDS scripture states that those with lighter skin color "are favored because of what they did as spirits in a pre-earth life."
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| *Critics claim that the Church taught that people who were born with dark skin were "neutral" in the pre-existence.
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| ===Source(s) of the criticism===
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| *[[The God Makers/Cartoon|''The God Makers'' (Cartoon)]]
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| *{{AntiBook:Southerton:Losing|pages=12}}
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| *{{AntiBook:Tanner:Changing World|pages=291–293}}
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| ==Response==
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| Joseph Smith never taught the idea that those born with black skin were "neutral" during the war in heaven. Brigham Young, when asked this question, repudiated the idea: | |
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| :...no, they were not, there were no neutral [spirits] in heaven at the time of the rebellion, all took sides…. All spirits are pure that came from the presence of God.{{ref|woodruff.1}}
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| Bruce R. McConkie, in the first edition of Mormon Doctrine, offered his opinion that some in the pre-existence
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| :...were more valiant than others- Those who were less valiant in pre-existence and who thereby had certain spiritual restrictions imposed upon them during mortality are known to us as the Negroes. Such spirits are sent to earth through the lineage of Cain, the mark put upon him for his rebellion against God and his murder of Abel.. The present status of the Negro rests purely and simply on the foundation of pre-existence" (Mormon Doctrine, op. 527, 1958 edition???)
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| Brigham Young said:
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| :Joseph Smith had declared that the Negroes were not neutral in heaven for all the spirits took sides, but `the posterity of Cain are black because he (Cain) committed murder. He killed Abel and God set a mark upon his posterity." (The Improvement Era, Joseph Fielding Smith, p. 105)
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| ==Conclusion==
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| {{nw}}
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| ==Endnotes==
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| #{{note|woodruff.1}} Journal History, 25 December 1869, citing Wilford Woodruff’s journal.
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| ==Further reading==
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| ===FAIR wiki articles===
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| ===FAIR web site===
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| *FAIR Topical Guide:
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| ===External links===
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| ===Printed material===
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