I'm not going to spend much effort on this idiotic notion but I have to make at least a brief comment. I'm sick of hearing about how it was Martin Luther King Jr.'s faith that made him such a champion of Civil Rights. Bullshit! Is it really that hard for people to accept that a black man may have just been fed up with being treated like shit? It does not take a genius to figure out that when racism becomes so ingrained in society it is not going to just go away. It also doesn't take a genius to figure out why at least a small percentage of those being discriminated against will rebel and demand better. No faith is required to see injustice and oppose it. Yes, MLK was a man of faith. Yes, I'm sure it played a role in his actions but it was not the only aspect of his personality that matters.
And one final point, if God is so benevolent why the racism in the first place? Freewill doesn't cut it. Who in their right mind chooses to be treated as sub-human? How many children were born into a culture of racism? Where was their "freewill"?
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