Thinking About MLK

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@Patrick

His choice of theology was simple as his father was a minister. The ministry was one of the only routes for education and out of poverty. Even educated black people couldn’t get jobs in their field just because of skin color.

@Patrick, as a secular atheist that deeply cares about justice, how do you respond to this quote from Tim Keller?

@swamidass

The polytheistic approach is that the universe is a chaotic field of vying power structures. Actually that is what the modern secular view is too. There is no love behind the universe. It wasn’t really a work of art. It is just about power. It is not about love, it is about power. That is how we got here. Nature red in tooth and claw, and that is all we are. So how do you build a society of justice and peace, when you say Nature is all about power?

It is possible that MLK saw grounding theology for justice that he could not find in secularism?