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Next week's topic is Martin Luther King, Jr. This may sound odd, but one of the reasons I like him is because he challenges my extreme dislike of mixing religion and politics.
King mixed religion and politics for a righteous cause. I wonder, if I'd been living at that time, would I have supported what he was doing, or would I have dismissed him because of his mixing the two? I hope the former, but that's how extreme my hatred of that mix actually is. Which really makes me think twice about it.
Although here's a case of irony. From The American Creed, by Forrest Church:
At the time King’s intrusion of religion into politics was rejected by some on the Christian right as anti-American and unbiblical. A young, prepoliticized Jerry Falwell condemned the ministers who marched with King in Selma in 1965. “Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners,” Falwell said. “Nowhere are we commissioned to reform the externals. The gospel does not clean up the outside but rather regenerates the inside.”
How things change.
King mixed religion and politics for a righteous cause. I wonder, if I'd been living at that time, would I have supported what he was doing, or would I have dismissed him because of his mixing the two? I hope the former, but that's how extreme my hatred of that mix actually is. Which really makes me think twice about it.
Although here's a case of irony. From The American Creed, by Forrest Church:
At the time King’s intrusion of religion into politics was rejected by some on the Christian right as anti-American and unbiblical. A young, prepoliticized Jerry Falwell condemned the ministers who marched with King in Selma in 1965. “Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners,” Falwell said. “Nowhere are we commissioned to reform the externals. The gospel does not clean up the outside but rather regenerates the inside.”
How things change.