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He denied the virgin birth, resurrection of Christ, the second coming and our Lord's divinity. He wasn't a Christian.The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was an ordained Baptist minister. What makes you think he wasn't a Christian?
He denied the virgin birth, resurrection of Christ, the second coming and our Lord's divinity. He wasn't a Christian.
Well liberal Christians don't really believe in Christianity proper anyways. Denying most doctrines like the trinity and ressurection. I believe your Church has had such men as Bishopa even. Perhaps you can demonstrate Dr King affirmed the contents of the Nicene Creed?Depending on exactly what he said, his beliefs might well fit with liberal Christianity. Can you cite a couple of your sources, so I can see Dr. King's statements in his own words?
Well liberal Christians don't really believe in Christianity proper anyways. Denying most doctrines like the trinity and ressurection. I believe your Church has had such men as Bishopa even. Perhaps you can demonstrate Dr King affirmed the contents of the Nicene Creed?
If you think a Christian can deny the Trinity then I guess we will have to disagree. The beliefs I outlined are not optional. Christianity is those doctrines.I did some googling of my own, and found a couple of papers he wrote while still in seminary that fit pretty well with the liberal Christianity that was common in northeastern seminaries and universities at the time.
I consider liberal Christians to be Christians, so we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one.
(Links to the papers I found: "What Experiences of Christians Living in the Early Christian Century Led to the Christian Doctrines of the Divine Sonship of Jesus, the Virgin Birth, and the Bodily Resurrection" , "The Sources of Fundamentalism and Liberalism Considered Historically and Psychologically" )
Because he didn't believe in Christian doctrine of the Trinity, among othersBecause you say so?
-CryptoLutheran
Because he didn't believe in Christian doctrine of the Trinity, among others
Yet he was not only not a Christian, but he also was a cheater to his wife. MLK is not a good example of Christian virtue despite what some liberal Christians want to advocate for.MLK is one of the highest saints of the postwar consensus religion.
But will the Prime Minister resign over his blind eye to the mass rapes that were seen as culturally acceptable?
Yet he was not only not a Christian, but he also was a cheater to his wife. MLK is not a good example of Christian virtue despite what some liberal Christians want to advocate for.
Yea, it's incredible how much he was idolized. It has only been in the last few years that someone could openly question the supposed sacredness of his character.
Dr. King is an imperfect symbol of the Civil Rights Movement, but a good symbol nonetheless.
I do believe that we do need to question what makes a multiculturalism work?
I can give you 5 examples were it didn't/doesn't work to any example were it does work.
Can we at least look at where it does or is working and why? And the many more examples where it doesn't and why it fails?
Only in the last few years? You remember how long it took for the MLK holiday to be approved, right?
It seems to me that it's only recently that opposition to the Civil Rights Movement subsided a bit. But then, as you say, in the last few years the opposition has become more vocal again.
Dr. King is an imperfect symbol of the Civil Rights Movement, but a good symbol nonetheless.
I think perhaps the 'sainthood' of MLK has increased proportionally with the abandonment of Christian morality.
As degenerate practices like feminism and homosexuality became accepted and then celebrated, people still need to feel like they are good, and that their enemies are bad. MLK becomes the cornerstone of this new morality, and "racism" becomes the ultimate sin.
However, if you said something that might be even slightly interpreted as being "racist", you would likely find the entire church hierarchy mobilizing against you.
The point being *not* that we should be saying "racist" things in church, but that there is a new program of morality being run in the church that coincides much more with the morality of the open-society postwar consensus than classic biblical Christianity.
Yes I think the average churchgoer, even unconsciously, has much more reverence for the "Civil Rights" movement than for the words of the apostles in how one ought to structure their communities.
According to our major cultural institutions today, the world was basically in darkness and void until the heavenly light of MLK inaugurated the age of civil rights.
Thankfully that edifice is now crumbling.
As happened in America. There is now alomost no trace of the orignial inhabitants. Until I read one of Grisham's novels, I was unaware of reservations that contain 'Native Americans'. Or is this just fiction? (I also know enough about America to know how little I understand. America and Britian are very different).It is easy to accept multi-culturalism, until one of the minority factions grows and threatens the traditional major one.
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