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1 posted on 01/19/2015 2:35:57 PM PST by millegan
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I understand he was an expert on the book of nookie.


2 posted on 01/19/2015 2:38:18 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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The thing is King was standing up against genuine injustices. He wasn't standing up for the rights of criminals and wasters who don't take responsibility for their own choices in life. But for decent people who really were being subjected to real injustices.

He was hardly a saint in his private life but I really do believe that in a lot of matters, he was on the side of the angels.

There's a huge difference between standing up for the right to vote as guaranteed in the law - and standing up for the 'rights' of people who break the law with impunity.

3 posted on 01/19/2015 2:52:07 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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Don’t go pointing out facts! Just let the stupid left pontificate and dream, you racist crackers!


4 posted on 01/19/2015 3:00:14 PM PST by vpintheak (Keep calm and Rain Steel!)
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on friday , we Drove by the seminary he attended in Chester, pa. Crozer Theological Seminary. Baptist at the time. beautiful building.


5 posted on 01/19/2015 3:04:04 PM PST by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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Rev. MLK, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jim Bakker.

These are not examples of actual Christian leaders .


6 posted on 01/19/2015 3:11:25 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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Oy. FReepers are delusional.


7 posted on 01/19/2015 4:12:04 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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“This is highly ironic because King, a baptist minister, embodied many of the things that secular liberals today dislike the most about “conservative” Christians.”

He was an adulterer, plagiarist, and consorted with communists. What’s not for a secular liberal to love?


10 posted on 01/19/2015 5:19:41 PM PST by vladimir998
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"today and liberals would probably label the person a “fundamentalist,” sound the alarm of a coming theocracy, and silence the person".

In those days they silenced people by calling them communists. It is important to remember that yes King did have people in his movement that were card carrying communists. But the catalyst was J. Edgar Hoover. He also hated the Kennedy's and the Kennedy's wire-tapped King.

Who is right and who is wrong? There are people in the Tea party for example that I would proudly defend and then there are others I would most likely not want to associate with. I am not talking about leaders, just people. I think we all know extremists that we'd rather not be grouped together with. As a private citizen I have the luxury of staying away from them. As a leader of a movement, I am not sure how aware someone would be of all of his followers. Maybe he knew maybe he didn't.

In his position during that time, maybe he did know and the cause was greater then him being called a communist. 20/20 hindsight is always a hazard when looking at history. You have to judge the people in the time that they lived and in the context of what they should have known in that time frame.

So was he a communist? I don't think so. The communism of the time was definitely anti-theology. It was also the 60's and Newspeak was in full swing. Bad was good, good was bad etc. Fringe protesters were as clueless then as they are now. Unions routinely bus people in and hand them a sign. This is not new.

I don't think you can just label someone a communist unless he actually preached it. From what he has written, I don't see it. As for his alleged behavior, well I won't be the one to cast the first stone. If it's true shame on him, but who amongst us is without sin?

11 posted on 01/20/2015 5:35:35 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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