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In reply to the discussion: Egypt considers dissolving Muslim Brotherhood [View all]The Reverend Martin Luther King was a cult leader, seeking to enslave all Americans. He wanted to foist his view of equality as a God-given right on all those non-believers.
Must never mix religion and politics.
Heck, even the Founding Fathers anchored natural rights in a view of religion. They may have been Deists, but Deism is a fine and dandy religion (or group of oft-disparate religions, as the case actually is).
The abolitionist groups and suffragette groups that were religion based--e.g. Tubman or Anthony, makes no difference--mixed religion and politics. They obviously sought to enslave us all, causing us to bow to their personal totems.
Susan B. Anthony started out by founding her views in Quakerism and Unitarianism, only becoming agnostic as the result of observing hypocrisy and her own personal journey. Women's rights or temperance, no matter. Same rationale. God ordained it. Make it so, says Susan "Jean-Luc Picard" Anthony.
Wannabe slaver Harriet 'Jim Jones' Tubman? Seriously? You want to keep that line?
Or perhaps modify it in some thoughtful way?