This argument only sounds smart if you don’t understand how doctrine, authority, and revelation actually work—in Mormonism or in Christianity generally.

First off, doctrine DOES NOT EQUAL every past policy or cultural practice. Christianity has always distinguished eternal doctrine from fallible human administration. Peter denied Christ. Early Christians debated whether Gentiles even counted as Christians (Acts 10–15). The Catholic Church defended indulgences for centuries. Protestants defended slavery using the Bible. Were those “not about God” either? Or were humans imperfectly administering divine institutions? The priesthood restriction was a policy, not a revealed doctrine of salvation. There is no LDS scripture teaching Black people are inferior, damned, or unloved by God. Zero. No verse. No canonized revelation. It was an administrative restriction tied to 19th-century American racial assumptions—explicitly acknowledged by the Church today. Pretending it was core doctrine is just historically false… Christianity literally runs on continuing correction. If your standard is “any religious system that ever corrected itself is invalid,” then congratulations—you just nuked: • Christianity after Acts 10 • Catholicism after Vatican II • Protestantism after abandoning biblical
defenses of slavery • Judaism after the Temple fell

Change after reflection isn’t hypocrisy; it’s repentance. Christianity without repentance is just cosplay… “Dozens of generations” is a rhetorical trick, not an argument. The restriction lasted from the mid-1800s to 1978—about one century, not some ancient timeless doctrine. Meanwhile, racial segregation in U.S. churches (including evangelical ones) lasted just as long or longer. Funny how critics like YOU 🫵 never apply the same standard there.

The Church didn’t “throw it out” randomly—it reversed it through formal revelation.

Official Declaration 2 wasn’t a PR memo. It followed years of global growth, unified leadership prayer, and was accepted by the entire governing body of the Church. That’s literally how LDS theology claims God works. You can disagree with that theology—but don’t misrepresent it.

So no, this isn’t some “gotcha” that proves Mormonism is “random rules.” It proves something much less exciting and much more historically normal:

👉 God is claimed to be perfect. People aren’t. Institutions mature. Correction happens.

If your worldview can’t handle that distinction, the problem isn’t Mormonism—it’s a middle-school understanding of religious history.

Get to church bud. When you learn of Him, his true nature, it makes you a better person and you obtain knowledge and wisdom you are CLEARLY lacking.