Martin Luther King Remembered at Lincoln Memorial 1963

[Gene C]

(01-18-2016 05:17 AM)maharba Wrote:  No man since Lincoln, had the same authority as Reverend King to revisit Lincoln's own speeches as he did: harking back to Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, and 2nd Inaugural as Dr King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Is this the same Abraham Lincoln you made the following comment about?

Quote: maharba Wrote
"Lincoln lost his first election because of his atheism. After that, he dissembled and concealed his atheism. Worse, he continually couched phrases in Biblical terms when convenient, so as to make it appear that his familiarity with Scripture actually meant that he was a follower of Christ."

"...it is clear to me that Abraham Lincoln concealed his atheism with ever more frequent resort to pious verbiage and biblical phrases in his speeches"

" He would use those same make-believe pious appeals, and finally in the 2nd Inaugural he would blame the War on...GOD.

and
"Why was Lincoln even in his final years so resistant to God in his edicts and addresses? DID the original, spoken Gettysburg Address say "under God" or was that added in later, for printed glosses? My guess is that Seward and others told Lincoln to be sure to include that, and he couldn't stomach to saying it out loud."

Based upon what you say, it is surprising Martin Luther King would want to revisit speeches from a man like this.