One thing I really appreciate about Dr. King’s theological grounding (and I think that this is likely true of lots of Black churches in the tradition of the struggle and the Catholic social theology, etc) is that he saw god acting through people’s actions, rather than being this being acting outside of our actions. To act in a godly way is to be engaged in the struggle for greater freedom, peace, and security for all… you can see god when you see people acting in that way, to free all of us from tyranny, hunger, want, pain, etc. God isn’t there in this house being preserved, he’s gonna be there when the people of Union island are working together to rebuild and are helping each other in the process… God’s active through human action, and that’s pretty much it… it’s a force that drives us to DO good in this world, not a force outside of us that does some invisible magic to help the elect…
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