Will today mark the beginning of a new era of a Christian nation in the USA as many hope, or the end of a nearly 250 year experiment in democracy as many others fear? This is one of a number of questions that I plan to explore over the next few years.
Ironically today is also Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Here is a quote from King that seems relevant today.
"... I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
― Letter from the Birmingham Jail; April 16, 1963
― Letter from the Birmingham Jail; April 16, 1963
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