Recently, John Hamer has claimed that belief in the historicity of the Book of Mormon is:
actually an ongoing contribution to the injustice, the racism, imperialism, and genocide that my [European] ancestors hoisted upon indigenous people in the [western] hemisphere.
My friend Stephen Smoot has responded (in a comedic manner) in the following:
The comments in the section are (albeit, unintentionally) hilarious from Ryan Thomas and Colby Townsend ("Yakov Ben Tov") in their pathetic attempts to defend Hamer's nonsense.
I do love footnote no. 2, where Stephen notes that:
. . . I must admit my envy of Hamer. To have such an abundance of white privilege that you can get away with casually accusing several million Latin American Latter-day Saints of being complicit in the genocide of their own race for simply believing a religious book is quite something.
Hamer's comments are reprehensive; however, out of evil comes good, and the good is Stephen's hilarious response.
Hamer's comment did remind me of this (apt) meme:
Hamer's comment did remind me of this (apt) meme:
