What do DUers that defend mocking religious beliefs think of these pictures?

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123. That has to be hands down the most callous thing I've read today,

Dr. King knew the risks he ran, he knew he might be martyred. Listen to his last speech, delivered in Memphis the night before he was murdered.

It was his religious faith that gave him the courage to face that possibility. I wonder how many DU keyboard atheist crusaders have that kind of courage.

If there is a God--and I happen to be an agnostic--I think She/It/He is more along the lines of the God Rev. William Sloan Coffin preached about. Rev. Coffin is another one of those brave souls willing to sacrifice everything in the cause of social justice. Anyway, he doesn't see God as a great hairy thunderer tossing lightning bolts from the sky, but rather an overarching energy that binds the universe together, mostly closely reflected among human beings when we show compassion and love for one another. It's this conception of God Dr. King was talking about, I think, when he said "the arc of the universe bends toward justice."

So God was there when Dr. King was shot, and suffered along with Dr. King as Dr. King slipped into eternity.

Then again, it's only the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.--arguably among the most brilliant minds of his generation or any generation--that we're talking about. His intellect obviously can't hold a candle to yours. Am I right?