{"id":42488,"date":"2017-12-11T00:30:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T03:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=42488"},"modified":"2017-12-11T01:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T04:34:05","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-and-masterpiece-cakeshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/11\/martin-luther-king-jr-and-masterpiece-cakeshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King, Jr, and Masterpiece Cakeshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting perspective [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the <strong>refusal<\/strong> of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego <strong>to obey the laws<\/strong> of Nebuchadnezzar <strong>because a higher moral law was involved<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If I lived in a communist country today where <strong>certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed<\/strong>, I believe <strong>I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws<\/strong>.<!--more-->&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Rev Martin Luther King, Jr.<br \/>\n&#8220;Letter from a Birmingham Jail&#8221;<br \/>\nApril 16, 1963<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some people have forgotten that Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, was also an advocate of religious liberty &#8212; and recognized the difference between &#8220;man&#8217;s law&#8221; and &#8220;God&#8217;s law.&#8221; The distinction &#8212; and stand &#8212; he makes above are unpopular today, which may explain why MLK&#8217;s reliance on and defense of the Christian faith have been either minimized or forgotten.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting perspective [emphasis added]: &#8220;There is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved&#8230; If I lived in a communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,19,6042,2003,10,171],"class_list":["post-42488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-christian","tag-government","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-moral","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}