5. Not a believer myself, but Lincoln and Martin Luther King were both
deeply religious, and their belief in God was at the source of their political and moral leadership, both of which helped save this country. So the one-sided "religion only leads to evil and misery" argument will never work for me. Hitchens points out that secularists like Rustin and Randolph were also involved in the civil rights movement, but they would have had no movement to participate in if it hadn't been for the ground work done by King and others in blacks churches throughout the South.
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