Last weekend I listened briefly to some local Binghamton, NY persons I do not know give their opinion of Martin Luther King over the radio. They talked about his sense of community as going beyond one’s immediate family and neighborhood. They talked about a new world order reminiscent of an international community out of Orwell’s 1984. This is a dangerous goal given the makeup of the United Nations, where many nations are not our friends. One of them interviewed expressed that King’s greatness came from his rooting within the Gospels, believing in peaceful means to accomplish worthy goals. Today, we rarely hear anyone in our national public discourse express strength through religion, let alone Christianity. It was shocking to my ears to hear these ideas conflated especially as the world is on fire.  The same weekend the History Channel reran its series on World War I and II, where many leaders hoped for world peace, but instead guaranteed thirty years...(Read Full Article)