Atheists unseen as civil rights heroes
Reply #2 - November 25, 2016, 04:12 PM
This is not at all surprising that the atheist views of Civil Rights leaders would be understated. Traditionally religion, and especially the Christian religion, was a major tool used to placate black people in America in the face of inequalities and injustice. As important as Martin Luther King was to the Civil Rights movement, it's telling that the way it is taught in America one might think he was the only, and universally supported, major champion of Civil Rights during the mid 20th century. Nothing would be further from the truth.