Posted on 01/16/2011 5:45:36 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator
Here (from a friendly source) is everything one needs to know about the "theology" of Martin Luther King Jr. That Fundamentalist Blacks who know better (Peterson, Childress, his niece Alveda) cover up these facts and play along with the "born-again chr*stian who would be horrified at his followers today" is absolutely unconscionable.
Notice especially his rejection of any supernatural consummation of history and righting of wrongs--always the great threat to people who want to reduce the eschaton to "equal pay" and a full stomach (and anyone who would be satisfied by such a "paradise" doesn't know what it's like to suffer!). While many chr*stian traditions regard a messianic kingdom on this earth as the root of Communism, it is actually quite the opposite. A literal messianic kingdom governed by the laws of G-d is the ultimate nightmare of secularists everywhere.
This evening there was a local community celebration of King at which the speaker was a preacher from some church with a fundie name two miles long (some sort of spirit-filled house-of-deliverance or something). The Black church is schizophrenic.
Ping for your interest.
bttt
Thanks for posting. Fascinating article. Sounds like he was more of a humanist.
Sounds like he was 100% humanist!
Ain't it ironic? The Black Left makes a lot of noise about the evils of Europe and "western civilization," yet their religious/spiritual beliefs come entirely from rationalist Europeans (Voltaire, Darwin, Wellhausen).
Ping
Not Christian. Denying the Resurrection should be labeled hate speech.
Not Christian. Denying the Resurrection should be labeled hate speech.
Good article, but might just get you banned.
There are certain things in this dark age you can’t touch. MLK is one of them.
"Christ was to be only the prototype of one among many brothers."
If that's where he ended up, I think we know what kind of Christian he was. I hope that later in life he might have developed a relationship with the Person of Jesus and let go of this mythological idea.
Also from the article, it sounded like King set out to discover a Christ that wouldn't require him to abandon his worldview and self-perception as an intellectual...essentially trying to redefine Christ to meet his own needs. In fact, trying to redefine Christ in a way that circumvented the need to let the old self die so that a new being was borned, filled with the Holy Spirit.
Amazing how intellectuals try to twist the Lord into puny human pretzels. In their arrogance and pride, they somehow think themselves superior to God.
From personal experience, I would say there is nothing so wonderful as being crushed by life and, when finally reaching the absolute end of your rope, looking up so see the Person of Jesus with His hand outstretched. No need for intellectualizing, redefinition, or conditional acceptance...just Salvation.
I think that King’s essential failure is the same one made by so many who are brilliant in their own way: they think they can imagine a better definition of divinity, so sure of their brilliance, and argue it into reality.
“Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.”
His writings are like the rationalizations that Lucifer gave, and each and every one can be read from that perspective. Lucifer would never imagine Jesus as his superior, but as his equal, perhaps even his inferior.
“If Christ by his life and death paid the full penalty of sin, there is no valid ground for repentance or moral obedience as a condition of forgiveness. The debt is paid; the penalty exacted, and there is, consequently, nothing to forgive.”
That has much the same tone as:
“If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.”
As another example of disdain:
“The significance of the divinity of Christ lies in the fact that his achievement is prophetic and promissory for every other true son of man who is willing to submit his will to the will and spirit of God. Christ was to be only the prototype of one among many brothers.”
In King’s sight, therefore, Jesus is therefore just a gifted man, not divine, and equal to every other gifted man. And King sees himself as a worthy to challenge Jesus:
“The staggering question that now arises is, what will be the next stage of man’s religious progress? Is Christianity the crowning achievement in the development of religious thought or will there be another religion more advanced?”
Seemingly not Christ as King, but King as Christ, at least from King’s point of view.
King testified that it was this incident that changed him into a civil rights activist, because while he expected that in the south he thought in the North he was free from it and it shook him to his core to realize there was nowhere he would be treated equal.
The restaurant changed hands over the years and ended it's life as the Moorestown Pub, which they recently bulldozed to make way for an overpass. No marker there to note the significance of the site, in fact almost nobody even knows it happened. I heard the story from an old timer and did some research to confirm it.
My criticisms of King have nothing to do with race and everything to do with theology. Actually, at one time there was no such thing as jim crow. It was enacted by "redeemer" Democrats after Reconstruction. It never should have existed in the first place. If it hadn't, it wouldn't have led to a generation of radicals who got their credibility fighting it before moving on to their ulterior goals.
bttt (Good article & comments)
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In other words, he was an unbeliever who saw the church as a convenient vehicle for an agenda.
That’s never happened before.
I BIN TO THE MOUNTAIN TOP
That's exactly the point.
Non-Theistically based moral/ethical systems are the world's curse.
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