Posted on 08/28/2013 8:43:29 PM PDT by sickoflibs
Looking at the slick con job that was the Obama campaign, I think we have to look at the past with new eyes. Look at the way that John F. Kennedy was deified. Look at the worship of FDR. Emotion is used to control people in politics. We probably all have been hoodwinked about people in public life and in our own personal lives as well. What does the Bible say about the heart of man as being wicked and unfathomable?
Do you know if Martin Luther King wrote his own speeches?
But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid. Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.
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