Reply #74: MLK was not using religion as a cover. [View All]

He was practicing his religious principles, and no, it was not wrong.
What you are doing is to claim that having a religious motive in taking a political stance is wrong automatically, and if you are right, which is not the case, then MLK would be wrong.

I also think it is highly dubious to lay Jim Crow and Apartheid at the feet of what you call fundamentalists, which seems to be anyone that believes in the Bible. Heck, quite a few "fundamentalist" actually oppossed these things. Certainly, the Holiness (Pentecostal strain) churches in the South were extreme literalists, and yet the only inter-racial churches in the South. The theologically liberal churches were not inter-racial, and you cannot tell me, who grew up Episcopalian in the South, that it was only literalists that supported Jim Crow.

Check out that movie, The Aostle, with Robert Duval. He is a wayward preacher, but the sub-culture the movie portrays is pretty accurate.

So this whole idea that literalists are responsible for racism, slavery, Apartheid, etc,...is just wrong. Sad to say, but there was wide support in the South for maintaining separate schools, etc,...and subjugation of African-Americans, and you may not realize this, but literalists in general were not the power players in the South. They were not the ones calling the shots, and never have been.