Question for atheists. Was MLK a fool for believing in God?

Question

I've never seen so much dancing around a question before.

Answer 1

Nope...MLK was one of the greatest servents of God in many years...a blessed man this nation was blessed to have fighting for them


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Answer 2

Honestly, no. MLK is no more a fool than anyone else. I may be athiest but I don't think the masses that have religion in there life are fools, for all I know I am the biggest fool of all. I have been envious of religious folks before...I wish I could believe and have the inner peace they have, or all the neat ideals. Unfortunately, as much as I have tried I have never been able to really believe in it...I can't see it as anything other than not wanting to face the fact that one day we will die and that will be that. We will rot and our bodies will be eaten by bugs which in all honesty is an unsettling thought. I was raised by an extreme athiest whom has said more than once, "If Jesus came down today- I wouldn't follow him across the street" Basically, my father thinks Jesus is a jerk and definitely thinks anyone following him is a fool. Then I ask myself if I was raised in a more religous tone would I still feel the way I do, or am I a victim of my surroundings? What do you think?

Answer 3

Possibly.
Was he a fool for cheating on his wife?
Was he a fool for cavorting with communists?
AND was he nonetheless the most effective source of freedom for non-white Americans since Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

We all do foolish things, and we are all influenced by (and correspondingly influence) the culture into which we are born. His faith in God is immaterial. His speech & actions are what deserve honor.

If God influenced the world through Martin Luther King, Jr., then there would be more like him. MLK is no evidence for God, but instead evidence that with study and thought, good can arise out of difficult circumstances.

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Answer 4

Believing in god doesn't necessarily make you a fool. To use Martin Luther King Jr., as an example, though, believing that prayer alone will advance the cause of civil rights in the US makes you a fool. Pray, by all means, if that's what you want to do, but get out there do some marching, too. Just in case.

Answer 5

Yes.

That said, I don't think that fools are incapable of doing great things. Gandhi and MLK were both amazing individuals, but both would in my estimation be so much greater had they recognized the absolute foolishness of religion. I'm glad they existed. They made the world a better place.

But yes, they were foolish.

Answer 6

Not at all. The human mind is designed to believe in something. Belief is necessary to our survival, whether that belief is Christian, Buddhist, Hindu or any of the other countless forms belief takes. Dr. King was exposed to a culture in which belief in a Christian God was not unusual.

Answer 7

Religion puts forth a very convincing argument, so you don't have to be a fool if you're seduced by it. Also, he decided to channel his spirituality into a worthy cause, which is very much to his credit. So I'd say no. He may have been deceived, but this doesn't make him a fool.

Answer 8

MLK was not a fool is believe in the right of other

Answer 9

everyone is allowed to believe in what ever myth they chose to think about If I, as a dyslectic, want to believe in DOG then I ought to be left to that belief .... King was a victim of lots of things including a vendetta by the little cross dressing maggot J.Edgar Hoover so King obviously was doing something right ..... who knows maybe it was his faith but then I kinda doubt it. Faith is just that "faith" in something that has no proof what so ever...... if it had any proof it would be called the other "f " word commonly known as "fact"

Answer 10

People believing in god, spirits, ghosts and other invisible beings that watch us and influence our lives are not fools. Technically they have a condition called schizoid delusional mental disorder.