Re: Miscellaneous Terran question-and-answer thread
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:01 pm
Grayhome wrote:A Deductive Argument
• no Christian faction has ever come anywhere close to being good roll[sic] models.
• Martin Luther King Jr. and his congregation were a Christian faction
• Martin Luther King Jr. and his congregation has not come anywhere close to being good role models.
I deny the conclusion, and therefore I find the first premise to be false, where the second premise is verified by historical documents.No they weren't. Their faction comprised of strong atheist, secular, feminist, LBGT and communist elements all of whom despised religion for obvious reasons. Which Dr. King took a lot of flack for, mostly from the religious elements of his "flock".Martin Luther King Jr. and his congregation were a Christian faction
I have no doubt that 50-100 years from now, the religious factions of the US will also be taking credit for making LGBT marriage possible. You may whitewash history all you want Ice, you can never hide the truth deep enough that the discerning wont find it.
While at the beginning King supported other movements, later the non-Christian groups rallied behind King, as he became a face for the movement.Wikipedia on Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote:Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968), was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia (the Albany Movement), and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama, that attracted national attention following television news coverage of the brutal police response. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.
King started from his belief that God created all Humans equal.
You may see that as Christian or not, but it was his belief which made him face all the problems of becoming a face for the fight against segregation.
But "King's faction" (if you want to name it that) within the movement, was the Christian faction. The other factions supported him, as he was successful in gaining media attention and rallying support. In other topics they may not have supported him, but that was not the goal of the anti-apartheit movement anyway.