{"id":11359,"date":"2024-03-26T20:15:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T00:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=11359"},"modified":"2024-03-27T20:37:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T00:37:38","slug":"did-he-really-say-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2024\/03\/did-he-really-say-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Did he really say that?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Pastor” John MacArthur — I’m putting the title “pastor” in quotes because he doesn’t sound very pastoral to me — has decided to proclaim that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was not a Christian. And before you ask, yes, MacArthur is an old White guy. Here’s what MacArthur said, according to Religion News Service:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“…Martin Luther King, who was not a Christian at all, whose life was immoral\u2026.I\u2019m not saying he didn\u2019t do some social good. And I\u2019ve always been glad that he was a pacifist, or he could have started a real revolution….”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MacArthur was called out by a number of Black pastors. Rev. Charlie Dates, pastor of a Progressive Baptist church in Chicago, said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He cannot get away with this. He has to know that Black and Black-adjacent clergy around the country wholeheartedly disagree with him on theological grounds. He\u2019s not the keeper of who\u2019s Christian and who\u2019s not.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m sure MacArthur will simply ignore what Black Christian clergy say to him. MacArthur is another one of those Old White Guys in Power (OWGIPs) who think they get to set the rules. Actually, I’d say that people like MacArthur are the real heretics. They put themselves in the place of their God, trying to take away their God’s power to judge humankind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With people like MacArthur saying stupid stuff like this, no wonder Christianity has such a bad name these days. Just try to remember that MacArthur is not really a Christian \u2014 Charlie Dates and Martin Luther King, Jr., are the real Christians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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