Morgan’s Reviews > Decolonizing Mormonism: Approaching a Postcolonial Zion > Status Update

"What makes a situation oppressive is when 'it keeps people from being fully human.' While the dehumanization of those who are oppressed may seem obvious, Freire also clarified that oppressive circumstances dehumanize those whose power leads them to oppress as 'no one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.'"

"the unwelcome rhetoric of protest--something good Mormons don't do because ... 'We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers and magistrates in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.' But to trust the law so implicitly is a privilege realized only by those who are benefited by the law. The reality for Indigenous folk is that the law has actively worked against them."

"We believe it is time to critique the notion that Zion can be understood or experienced as a middle-class American suburb...None of these--economic exploitation, nationalism, racism, colonialism, consumerism, sexism, nor heterosexism--have a place in Zion. Zion is not and can never be an American middle-class suburb"

"The editors would like to acknowledge that a faith crisis is nowhere near as tragic as a smallpox epidemic, or a settler-on-settler massacre which is blamed on the local indigenous population, or the legal violations that appropriated millions of acres of Native land for the building of Deseret."