In his own words – Billy Graham on Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hmm...people go through phases in their walks. Some people are Protestants who die Catholics. Some people go through agnostic periods of doubt. Some people switch from Arminianism to Calvinism etc...but I think the bigger point here is that Graham took a stand against racial segregation at a crucial juncture of history.
There is no place for it in the kingdom of God on earth or in Heaven. Racism is straight from Satan and the depths of hell.

Regardkmg any historical person’s personal standing with God upon their death, I guess we will see in Heaven!

If you think I am some sort of apologist for mandatory racial segregation, you are very much mistaken. I am an old Civil War Republican, and unlike too many conservatives, I don't see Blacks (who have been here for four hundred years) as some alien, foreign group. FCOL, if you want to divide America up among the oldest groups to come here, the Blacks are second right behind the Anglo-Saxons and would be the heirs apparent. Despite the fact that the Left has convinced them that they are an alien, foreign group, I still adhere to the philosophy of Booker T. Washington that they are among the most native and least alien of all groups and are far to be preferred to "foreigners." Unfortunately, most have decided to forego that identity.

I am also one of the few people on this site who doesn't go stark raving crazy because there are so many Black people in commercials or on television. So what? These aren't johnny-come-latelies--they've been part of our country and our culture for almost as long as the English have been here. What would the USA be without them? Another Australia? What would our cuisine, our music, our very speech and accents be like?

However, I insist that the civil rights movement went off the rails from the very beginning when it allied with the political Left and the Communists. I assure you that one of the biggest propaganda coups of the Left is the common assumption that segregation existed because Genesis was read in public school classrooms. Thus "civil rights" became one of the actors in the movement to totally secularize America, despite the fact that American Blacks have historically been Fundamentalist Protestants. Unfortunately, this no longer appears to be the case.

Martin Luther King was an atheist in clerical garb. Liberal "theology" is not theology at all. If Billy Graham could argue with his old friend (name not currently remembered) that Genesis must be true, he could have made the same argument to his friend King who rejected Genesis as well as all the traditional supernatural doctrines of chrstianity. He could not possibly have been ignorant of King's radical theological views. That he apparently made not so much as an attempt to change them is one of his great failures.

And oh yes, in case you're wondering, I do blame white Fundamentalists who added segregation to G-d's commandments so that when it went down it would take the genuine commandments with it. What kind of people can live together for four hundred years, share a common religion, and still hate each other's guts???

There are unfortunately plenty of white racial identitarians on this forum (who are probably all atheists but still think they belong here because they worship European chromosomes), but I assure you I am not one of them. And besides . . . Black racial identitarianism is not one whit better or more excusable.

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