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In a vacuum, the logical premises can be stated as an argument but given the history of racism, and the fact we have people reporting their causes of exclusion for their own benefit, it's just people covering up for their own defeciencies and blaming God in the process. I think you're taking the least probable scenario to defend institutional racism. Could one make the intellectual argument you're making? You just did. Is it very persuasive in light of social conditions and other events? Not to me. So in my mind, you're happy to defend a racist policy and blame God for it, when the most probable reason for it lies with the fallibity of men. Whenever a problme arises, people are wont to blame God. Let's see, who is more likely to have been racist, Brigham Young, a nineteenth century man, or the perfect God who loves all of his children?
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Not racist.
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And I'm not an apostate. I'm just struggling with my testimony.
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You cannot defend racism without having some element of racism rub off on you. You're also saying if God wanted to deny a class of individuals the priesthod based on a man-made designation with no logical or natural divisions, that it wouldn't be racism but it would be divine. Well, if God really adhered to a man-made classification for determining eligibility to hold the priesthood, it would still be racist, i.e., a decision based on race, but perhaps one would not be sinning if God really ordained it. However, it begs reason that God's blessings are determined by an artificial non-natural class, race. That is a social designation, not a genetic or natural classification; hence, it seems impossible God would determine these blessings on that basis.
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