Civil Rights was a religious movement.
Martin Luther King was a Baptist Minister.
The Quakers and other religious groups
ran the underground railroad during slavery
in the USA and it was religious groups
that brought about abolition and were primarily
instrumental in ending social injustice of slavery:
The Union army sang the song marching to battle;
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic",
words: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the
Coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes
of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrrible swift sword.
His truth is marching on. Glory Glory hallelujah (chorus)
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
they have builded Him an alter in evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and
flaring lamps. His truth is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across
the sea, with a glory in His bosom
that transfigures you and me: As He died to make
men holy, let us die to make men free.
And what have Atheists done for us ?
Slavery is a perfect example of unscrupulous men
using religion to abuse and enslave other people,
and then being resisted, and swept away
by more honest and brave religious people.
I encourage everybody to write to the president
of the Republic of the Maldives
( which is under Sharia Law, which is much like Watchtower Law)
The President's Office
Boduthakurufaanu Magu, Male' 20113
Republic of Maldives
Phone: (960) 332 3701 Fax: (960) 332 5500
http://www.presidencymaldives.gov.mv/Index.aspx?lid=6
