Posted on 01/16/2012 10:47:21 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator
You undoubtedly know that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a progressive Christian and champion of civil rights and the social gospel. You may also know that he spoke out against the Vietnam War, harshly criticized U.S. foreign policy, and questioned the capitalist system that produced poverty. But do you know his theology?
Right up until Dr. King's assassination in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had traveled to support striking sanitation workers, the civil rights leader workednot as a secular activist but as a Baptist ministerto awaken the conscience of the nation. What was the meaning of Jesus for Dr. King? Did he see Jesus as divine? How did he interpret the Bible?
Biographies describe King as a liberal Protestant, but what does this mean? What was his understanding of Christian doctrines and why are they important to us? A number of academic papers written during his seminary years (1948-1951) provide an intimate look at the young King as he struggled to reconcile religion with a changing, dynamic, and modern world.
(Excerpt) Read more at tikkun.org ...
Annual bump about this Bible-hating, higher critical “Baptist preacher.”
This is an old article from a pro-King source which I posted years ago.
Annual bump.
I apologize for this. Apparently they were afraid Black Fundamentalists would find and read it.
Excerpt
https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-1896963061/king-s-god-the-unknown-faith-of-dr-martin-luther
Sorry but saying Jim Crow was worse than slavery is nonsense. As slaves black families were routinely broken up and sold away from each other. They could be whipped and beaten at any time for any offenses. In many states it was illegal for a slave to be educated.
Under Jim Crow families were kept together, blacks could be educated, they did not have to fear a beating(though lynching was used at times), and they could try and better their situation.
On a morality scale of 1 being good and 10 being evil slavery was a 9 and Jim Crow was a 7.
I read a very good book (whose names escapes me now) about the United States Colored Troops. One of the stories was about a slave who ran away from his plantation, joined the USCT, and made it through the war. As soon as he was released from service he started making his way to Texas. Why? Because just prior to the war beginning his former master had sold his wife and daughter to someone in Texas. This mans story after that is lost to history but i’d like to think he found his wife and daughter and they lived a long and happy life.
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