The Naughty Baptist

MLK and Luke 11:47

“Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, and your fathers killed them.”
Luke 11:47 CSB

This verse has been on my mind since I woke up this morning. It’s MLK Day, and also the day we inaugurate a President who opposes everything Dr. King stood and fought for. Today some will celebrate a man who was killed while striving for what he believed in. Others will celebrate a racist, convicted felon who had only ever fought for himself.

Jesus condemned the religious leaders who claimed to honor the prophets, knowing their fathers killed those prophets. If this doesn’t describe America’s view of MLK I don’t know what does. We will quote him, have holidays in his honor, and do everything except imitate him.

Jesus goes on to say that, because of their complacency in the killing of the prophets and the blasphemy of pretending to honor them, “Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible” (vs51).

All these people who rely on Medicare and Social Security, voting for Trump, who intends to gut those programs to benefit himself. That generation which hated MLK when he was alive will indeed bear the cost of their approval of the killing of a prophet.

We’re going to see this more and more, and quickly. Most people who voted for Trump voted against their own interests. I believe, basically, it’s because he hates the same people they hate. And I mean, fair enough. But how someone can claim to know Christ and chose hate is beyond sad. To do that and believe that, somehow, they are not electing their own judgement, is staggeringly stupid.