Racial issues and the Church of Jesus Christ/Blacks and the priesthood/Pre-existence

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Criticism

• 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."
• Critics claim that the Church taught that people who were born with dark skin were "neutral" in the pre-existence.

Source(s) of the criticism

• The God Makers (Cartoon)
• Simon Southerton, Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2004) 12. ( Index of claims )

Response

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Conclusion

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Endnotes

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Further reading

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