responsible to
live as Christians in the midst
of unchristian world
I am impelled to write you concerning the responsibilities laid upon you to live as Christians in the midst of an unchristian world.
This is what I had to do.
This is what every Christian has to do.
But I understand that there are many Christians in America who give their ultimate allegiance to man-made systems and customs.
They are afraid to be different.
Their great concern is to be accepted socially.
They live by some such principle as this: “Everybody is doing it, so it must be all right.” Morality is merely group consensus.
In your modern sociological lingo, the mores are accepted as the right ways.
You have unconsciously come to believe that right is discovered by taking a sort of Gallup Poll of the majority opinion, and how many are giving their ultimate allegiance to this way.
From Paul’s Letter to American Christians by Martin Luther King, Jr. as read on June 3, 1958.
But I understand that there are many Christians in America who give their ultimate allegiance to man-made systems and customs.
You have unconsciously come to believe that right is discovered by taking a sort of Gallup Poll of the majority opinion, and how many are giving their ultimate allegiance to this way.
1958.
Well, in some ways we have come far since 1958.
In some ways we have backed up a ways since then.
As Dr. King said, “”The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
It’s these times when the arc seems a little flat, maybe a lot of flat, that tries my soul.
It Dr. King’s day today as well as Dr. King’s birthday as well as my wife’s birthday.
If you were a State of South Carolina employee, you would have the day off.
The next day off, If you were a State of South Carolina Holiday is George Washington’s Birthday / Presidents Day on Monday, February 19.
Boy Howdy but after that State of South Carolina Employees have to wait another two months for an extra day off.
That won’t come until Confederate Memorial Day — Friday, May 10.
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