are there any black mormons?
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Yes. There are black Mormons. One of the most well known is Gladys Knight, of Gladys Knight and the Pips. She was baptized several and some years ago after trying out a lot of other religions. She has recently organized a choir and takes them all over the country sharing her testimony about the church and about God. \n\nI am not sure about the answer to your other question. I'm not sure they are entirely related. Remember, Mormons no longer practice polygamy.
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Why don't you come to my church. It's not all black and it's not Baptist but our Pastor is black and he is considered to be one of the most gifted Pastor's in this country.\n\nAlso the Southern Baptists helped us with a loan guarantee to build our new church building.\n\nClick on the My Pastor button to learn more! http://web.express56.com/~bromar/
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I'm LDS.  \n\nIt is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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Ummm, Mormons believe in Jesus.  They just believe in more than Jesus.
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yes, but they refuse to acknowledge it. Their racism goes deeper than the institutionalized racism practiced in the United States, but it's probably not what most people consider racist. Most people think of active violence or open overt acts of agression or rejection as their mental image of racism; but that's not racism, it's prejudice. Mormons are racist and unapologetic about it. They'll tell you that there are tons of black members participating in their church. What they don't tell you is that there are very few black member in the united states, and taht within the US black member populations are-percentage based-mostly names on a roster...they don't go to church or participate in mormon practice. In the underdeveloped countries in africa and elsewhere, mormons have a growing population which seems to have more to do with American appeal than appeal to their theology. But mormons will insist they are not racist in spite of their teachings that skin color resulted from sin, and the fact that black mormons were denied leadership and other priveleges white members had until 1979, and the fact that mormons believe that when they go to heaven everyone will be white. This isn't the only form of descrimination within the Mormon church either. They also descriminate against women. Women still do not participate in any leadership that makes or changes church policy. They have gender roles; the woman is to be a homemaker and cook and raise the children; the man is to work and be in charge of the family...
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cant. \n\ncheck out www.mormonchallenge.com\n\nand its moroni
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bible said nothing \nbut from what I understand Moses married a black gal and it upset others in his tribes\n\nbut they do have warning for marry with unbelivers
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My brother is a Mormon (LDS). I've heard the strangest things about how they sacrifice animals and they have more than one wife (not true of LDS - only of fundamentalist Mormon denominations, which are few and far between), and they are so annoying and this and that on and on. When I hear people talk about them, I usually just listen and say, "Really?" every now and then until they are finished. Then I tell them that my brother is a Mormon. That usually produces a Kodak moment :) \n\nI don't agree with the Book of Mormon (see link for good reasons why) or some of the doctrines, but neither have I ever met a Mormon that I didn't like. Even Trey Parker and Matt Stone were man enough to portray them as really nice and loving people.
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Yes, but the converse is also true.  Mormen men only gain salvation through their wives.  Its a package deal in Mormonism. Families are a very big deal in Mormon theology. According to strict mormon theology only married couples can recieve exhaltation the highest level of salvation. Many mormons will disagree since they dont know their own theology as well as they should.
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"""Calling themselves the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, their origins are rooted in their charismatic leader, Ben Ammi Ben Israel. Ben Ammi, who was a foundry worker named Ben Carter in Chicago, had a vision in 1966 that his African ancestors were descended from one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel."""\n---\n"""The strange group is led by Ben Carter a former Chicago resident who now calls himself “Ben Ammi Ben Israel”\n\nCarter claims that the ”Archangel Gabriel told him that many African Americans were descendants of the lost Israeli tribe of Judah.” He led some followers to settle in Israel during 1969, but they didn’t receive permanent residence status until 2003.\n\nThe “Black Hebrews” have been linked to crime and the death of a child."""\n---\n"""One of Carter’s henchmen was found guilty of “operating an international crime ring” in 1986 and just last year a couple was charged with manslaughter. And the death of their baby was allegedly tied to the group’s strange diet."""
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i don't know if such thing or denomination exists\nthere's no afro-argentinians\nit's very hard to see black people in argentina\n97% are white from european descent and the rest are mestizos or indigenous people
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So Mormons are trying to claims the founders of their church were not racist? Well, let's check some of their teachings shall we not?.\n\n Brigham Young (hmm, he was a pretty famous Mormon was he not?) claimed that these who leave the Mormon Church would turn "wrinkled" and "black." The following curse was pronounced by Brigham Young: ". . .but let them apostatize, and they will become gray-haired, wrinkled, and black, just like the Devil." (Journal of Discourses, vol. 5, p. 332)\n\n\n\nThe Prophet Brigham Young's racist statements about blacks:\n\n"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. The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. 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." - Brigham Young, President and second 'Prophet' of the Mormon Church, 1844-1877 - Quotation from Journal of Discourses\n\n\n"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." - Brigham Young, President and second 'Prophet' of the Mormon Church, 1863, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 10, p. 110./\n\nIts kind of mind-boggling so many Mormons object to being called Mormons, and yet call their choir the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Go figure.\n\nUnfortunately the Mormon cult has a lot of decieved followers. Hopefully their eyes will be opened to the only true Savior, the Jesus Christ of the Bible.
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I don't think so. I am O positive and both of my parents are black.
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Except for religious differences, Mormons are just like everyone else. They are Christians, and anyone who knows the meaning of the word 'christian' would see that very plainly. It's right in the name of the church. It is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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Lots and lots of them.  As a matter of fact, true believers in the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (aka LDS or Mormons) believe in All of the Gods that will be made Gods of their very own planets some day (just regular Mormon folks, now...but...) by living the doctrines set forth in the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenents and the Pearl of Great Price - baptizing dead relatives, by getting married in the temple, keeping their "temple recommends card" up to date, paying their tithes to the local Ward, refraining from drinking Coke and coffee ("Gods forbid" that there should be Coca Cola in one of the three levels of Heaven they believe in....become a God just like Adam, "who is (their) Lord and their God, and the only God with whom (they) have to do" (that was "Brother Brigham" Young that said that gem)....just like "the God of this world" (Mormons can sound very 'monotheistic' when they need to, but they believe in many gods, just ask an elder!) came to this planet from the planet Kolob.  They have another Jesus, too....the "spirit brother of Lucifer"....who, with his "brother" each presented a plan of salvation for the new world...to a council of Gods (yes, Gods!) - and their Jesus won!!  Woo hooo!!  \n\nAfter they get themselves "sealed" in the Temple, in a cermony that is almost word-for-word out of the Masonic ritual (Jos. Smith was a Mason, you know...)....they can go on to become gods, too....and practice polygamy....because, after all - once the husbands call their wives out of the grave with the secret password given to them at the "sealing ceremony" (uh oh, wives - if they forget the password....you are doomed!) - they need  as many wives as possible to keep eternally pregnant so they can populate the new planet that they are now the "only god" of.\n\nGreat stuff....for a science fiction novel.  \n\nToo bad so many folks don't know the truth.
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Honestly, I have never heard of anyone thinking that Mormons don't believe in Christ.  That's news to me.  Mormons believe in Christ just as much as the next person.  I'm not Mormon, in fact, I was baptised Lutheran but ever since I was a kid (I'm 43 now), I've gone to quite a few churches.  I've gone to Lutheran churches, Catholic, Baptist, etc.  And I have to say, the best time I had was when I was in first grade through 5th grade as I went to church with my neighbors who were Mormons.  We did Sunday church, Wednesday was primary school (I can still hear the song in my head), and Monday nights I was always invited to participate in their family home evenings.  It was a great experience!
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I am the original "black Hebrew" of the tribe Yahudah.\n\n\nBlack People in Africa are Africans of what ever tribe they belong to. A black Hebrew is different then a black African. They are call the original Hebrews, because they are from one of the tribes of Yisrael. Which means they are the seed of Israel. You can be black, and NOT be what we call "Africans."\n\nNot to be confuse with "black Jews" or the people we know today as Jews. If you ask any Jew why he is a Jew, they will say because there religion is Judaism or someone in the ancestry converted to Judaism. If you notice none of them will stay they are descendants of the tribe of Judah, which is what the word Jew means. Just because you practice the religion or your parents did, doesn't make you a seed of Jacob. The black Hebrews are in fact the direct descendants of the Israelites, but not all black nations are Israelites. It just happen that many of the Israelites happen to be black.\n\nDon't think that because they are black, that it automatically means they can't be Israelites.