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1 posted on 01/17/2015 8:59:40 PM PST by John Leland 1789
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American Blacks needed a hero. It turned out to be MLK. He was imperfect but who isn’t? On the face of it I look like the perfect wife, mom, grandmother, etc. But if you look deep enough you will find my flaws.


2 posted on 01/17/2015 9:15:25 PM PST by Cry if I Wanna
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Interesting article, thanks for posting it.
I had previously read that Dr. King was an unrepentant philanderer. I didn't know that he basically was a Christ denier, and just wore the name as a mask.
4 posted on 01/17/2015 9:30:12 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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He definitely wasn’t a Christian!


8 posted on 01/17/2015 9:49:12 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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Hate to say it but the majority of the liberal clergy especially those the Episcopal Church are agnostic or atheistic, don’t believe in the divinity or resurrection of Christ, and use their positions to promote neo pagan decadence such as abortion, the homosexual agenda and earth worshipping enviormentaism.


9 posted on 01/17/2015 9:53:10 PM PST by allendale
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So what is being said here - that for all he did, MLK is in hell, because even though he did so much for so many people, and showed so much courage in the face of evil that he was killed for it, he wasn’t perfect and didn’t fit the generally accepted definition of Christian, and so even though he invoked Christ in his mission to give heart to people and fight evil - he’s now in hell forever, suffering like the most vile criminal?

What utter, complete rot. I reject such a conclusion with contempt. Jesus isn’t an accountant, and if MLK didn’t do enough, then no one can. He faced the murderous equivalent of nazistic hate and responded with teaching millions a response of love and nonviolence and human dignity and calling on God. There’s not one in a hundred who could do what he did.

And lumping him in with LBJ is obscene.

I don’t care how the Left had abused his legacy and name for their own purposes - it doesn’t change what he did and taught. And if what he did and taught wasn’t Christian, then Christianity is useless.


11 posted on 01/17/2015 10:08:24 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Hey, at least he wasn’t a Muslim!


12 posted on 01/17/2015 10:09:16 PM PST by jocon307 (Tell it like it is.)
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“Or, about preachers whether it be Billy Graham...”

It be?

This guys a bit full of himself.


13 posted on 01/17/2015 10:09:42 PM PST by ifinnegan
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Not sure which...But I know he was a Plagiarizer and a “John”
15 posted on 01/17/2015 10:18:57 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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Judge not, lest ye be judged.

This jackass has no business deciding whether or not MLK was a Christian. He professed it, and preached it. This article is basically garbage. Wonder how this guys life would look if someone gave it that same rectal exam?


16 posted on 01/17/2015 10:31:13 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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“virgin birth” Yeah, impossible (not improbable) is the correct word.
You don’t have to be an ignorant bonehead to be a good Christian.

Parthenogenesis (where an offspring develops from an unfertilized egg) occurs in certain species, but not in mammals. Period.
Taking the position that Mary somehow managed this trick is equivalent to saying the Sun revolves around the Earth.
Maybe an Angel shot her with a fertilisation Ray gun?

In point of fact, the Church did take this position—that the universe revolved around the Earth—until people started laughing out loud at them during church services and they couldn’t be hustled outside and burned fast enough.


18 posted on 01/17/2015 10:42:18 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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With all of his imperfections its a good thing MLK became the main voice of the civil rights movement instead of Malcom X who would have triggered a violent race war and possibly influenced many more blacks to become muslim.


33 posted on 01/17/2015 11:23:46 PM PST by RginTN
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What is this, Common Core? No one was swearing or being out of line. Yet ask of a sudden a half-dozen posts of people discussing religious philosophy are erased without comment?

Do you have ANY idea hire Big Brother this is?! On Free Republic, no less!


36 posted on 01/17/2015 11:35:27 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Mlk got a b+ on a college paper. Oh my gosh that changes everything.


59 posted on 01/18/2015 3:45:47 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Maureen Dowd may give us an insight to why Hollywood snubbed "Selma".

Seems, the move Selma trashes Liberial icon, LJB, as an obstructionist to MLK's civil rights movement.

67 posted on 01/18/2015 5:40:15 AM PST by TexasCajun
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Many in worldly leadership, and even in Church leadership, profess to be Christians but might not be. Ultimately that’s only for God to say, but Christians do have an obligation to point out heresy. I’m not sure, however, that everyone who voices some heresy is a heretic. Some people might be mistaken or ignorant on some point and unknowingly embrace a heresy. Since the Lord is always better training us, as Jesus did with the disciples, who jumped to many wrong conclusions (their situation being a little different though since the Gospel hadn’t yet been so fully revealed), we’re always having errors in our understanding corrected. True heresy would seem to be a knowing rebellion against what one knows and understands to be God’s Word.


69 posted on 01/18/2015 6:36:40 AM PST by Faith Presses On
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I was 11 when he was shot, and even then he was known as a communist sympathizer.

Considering we were in the full blown cold war mode, he never was, is , or will be a hero in my book.

70 posted on 01/18/2015 6:39:22 AM PST by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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It’s about time! And I’m afraid since King’s time (or before) the exact same thing can be said about the vast majority of Black “ministers”—even in the rural South!


73 posted on 01/18/2015 7:06:18 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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Was Martin Luther King a Christian? This is an oldie, but very interesting.

http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/king.htm


84 posted on 01/18/2015 8:15:13 AM PST by smalltownslick
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Without a doubt early stages of althiemers were affecting the thought process of President Reagan when he made MLK’s birthday a federal holiday. He had previously said many times that there were a lot of great Americans that didn’t have their own holiday and he didn’t see any reason why King should be given one. The great senator Jesse Helms refused to go along with the ruse and said if King was such a great man why were his FBI files sealed for the next 50 years. Helms said King was a communist, trouble-maker and philanderer and that is exactly what the FBI records would reveal if opened. To me it is a national disgrace that we only have one federal holiday for a president and that being George Washington, but King now has this honor. One thing is certain if Jesse Helms had been president no way in hell King would have a federal holiday in his honor.


87 posted on 01/18/2015 8:53:37 AM PST by NKP_Vet
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NO ONE IS PICKING UP ON THE FACT THAT ONE BLACK MAN HAS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT TODAY !!!
95 posted on 01/19/2015 6:25:35 AM PST by knarf
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