{"id":796,"date":"2010-01-18T10:03:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=796"},"modified":"2010-01-18T10:03:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:03:14","slug":"the-martin-luther-king-jr-was-a-christian-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"The Martin Luther King Jr. Was a Christian Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I talk about all the immoral and horrible things that Christianity is responsible for in the world, some Christian will always respond by reminding me that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Christian. Guess what? The Christian is correct Martin Luther King Jr. was indeed a Christian. So what?<\/p>\n<p>Hitler was a Christian too. Does that then make Christianity responsible for the holocaust? The real question is did Martin Luther King Jr. become a model for non-violence because of his Christian faith? Maybe in small part he did, but there are plenty of extremely violent passages in the Bible to support a very different outlook of tolerance and equal right. Mostly though, Dr. King learned about the principles of non-violence from Gandhi rather than Jesus. Gandhi for the record was not a Christian. Gandhi also did not originate the principles of non-violence. He learned those principles from the Jains.<\/p>\n<p>The Jains are so non-violent that they wear masks so that they don\u2019t accidentally swallow insect. When the Jains say that they wouldn\u2019t hurt a fly, they take it literally.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Luther King Jr. is a hero to me. He was a champion of justice and tolerance. He believed that people can stand up to unjust laws without having to take up arms. He was also a Christian. But it wasn\u2019t his religious views that made him great. He was great for his secular humanist dream that people ought not be judged my the color of their skin, but rather for the content of their character.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t believe in judging people by their skin color or their clothing. I don\u2019t believe in judging people by their gender or their sexual orientation. I don\u2019t believe in judging people by how much or how little money they make. But I do believe in judging people by their ridiculous beliefs and by the content of their character in relation to those beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. King spoke out against injustice and inequality. I speak out against one of the largest sources of those things\u2026 theistic religion.<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"return addthis_sendto()\" onmouseover=\"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')\" onmouseout=\"addthis_close()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=dangeroustalk\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><script src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js?pub=dangeroustalk\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=796\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 317364;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I talk about all the immoral and horrible things that Christianity is responsible for in the world, some Christian will always respond by reminding me that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Christian. Guess what? The Christian is correct Martin Luther King Jr. was indeed a Christian. So what? Hitler was a Christian too. 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