Martin Luther King Jr.

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"a profound humanist [...] his legacy has very little to do with his professed theology. [... he did not] even hint that those who injured and reviled him were to be threatened with any revenge or punishment, in this world or the next. [...] In no real as opposed to nominal sense, then, was he a Christian."

Christopher Hitchens

"Hitches dismisses King's religious upbringing, his theological education and his religious convictions. He seeks to claim the cause of humanism mirrors the attempts by Christian fundamentalists to also claim King as their own.[...] The attempt to own King, who was neither an atheist nor a Christian fundamentalist, is an effort to ignore the religious tradition he actually represented and recruit him for a tradition (either religious or secular) he would have rejected."

Chris Hedges [1]

"Give us somebody like Martin to stand over Washington Mall again, and say, 'God hasten that day when all God's children, black men and white men, Jews and gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, may join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we're free at last""

— Rod Parsley, Christian right evangelist[2]

References[edit]

  1. I Don't Believe in Atheists
  2. Taped by Chris Hedges, March 2006, quoted in I Don't Believe in Atheists