by Lee Stranahan
You've heard of King. He believed in that invisible man in that sky, that myth. He brought up religion, God, and Jesus constantly in a political context. In speech after speech, he used his Christian faith as the rationale for the entire civil rights movement.
Rev. Joseph Lowery is doing the benediction at Obama's inauguration. Lowrey, with King, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. In 2006, he spoke at Coretta Scott King's funeral in front of four Presidents, including George W. Bush. He said...
Coretta knew and we know that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war billions more but no more for the poor!
Those are Lowery's religious convictions as well as his political ones. He and King both prayed to Jesus. That's the same Jesus that Rick Warren prays to.
If God is your enemy - not just the political views of some believers but the concept of God and religion itself - it seems to me that King and Lowery should be on your shit list as well...