Dr. King, Argument from Authority

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So next time an atheist recounts all the bad things men and women of faith have done in the name of God, just think of Dr. King and the great things he accomplished in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

I do. I also think of how Jim Crow, and the chattel slavery which preceded it, the many and horrible crimes against humanity that Dr. King gave his life to end, and which persist to this day, are also great things accomplished in the name of your lard and savior Jesus Christ. So said many of the people who tried their hardest to oppose civil rights... and still do.

Is that all you think of? Because I also think about all the Southern churches that, at the time, questioned Dr. King's character and religious bearing because of his civil rights stance. I think of the christians who spoke up against him, intimating that fighting for civil rights is unchristian. The ones who urged Dr. King to stop with all his uppity ideas of equality and just preach the gospel. The ones who insisted that the sort of justice King preached was of the devil.

That's what I think of.