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To: wagglebee

Dr. King must be applauding from his grave.


4 posted on 04/14/2008 4:10:08 PM PDT by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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To: Ingtar

This lady truly does get it and carries on the philosophical legacy of her uncle.


14 posted on 04/14/2008 4:41:52 PM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Ingtar
Dr. King must be applauding from his grave.

Unfortunately, I don't think so. MLK was very much a non-fundamentalist "social gospel" minister of the Left. He just didn't live to see abortion and "gay rights" become liberal causes (Roe v. Wade was in '73; the Stonewall riots were in the summer of '69). King's theological writings are available online and show that he rejected the supernatural and dogmatic elements of chr*stianity and used it only as a cloak to preach "liberation theology."

This does not in any way cloud the righteous achievements of the civil rights era, of course, but conservative Black preachers who invoke MLK in order to contrast him with today's leftist Black preachers are doing a disservice to their flocks. I've read some of their stuff and they seem to think--or pretend to think--that MLK was a Fundamentalist Baptist who gave an "altar call" at every sermon. I doubt if he ever gave an "altar call" in his career.

Of course, most conservative white Protestants think that George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln were "born-again" Calvinists.

60 posted on 04/15/2008 9:20:50 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Hinneh 'anokhi sholeach lakhem 'et 'Eliyyah HaNavi' lifnei bo' Yom HaShem HaGadol veHaNora'!)
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