> Jeet Heer wrote:
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>> Well, wasn't Martin Luther King, Jr. a product of American protestantism?
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> Yes, but.... I wish I had at my fingertips one of Adolph Reed's
> critiques of the malignant role of the church in black politics. Sure
> there was King, but there were also many decades during which what
> should have been secular political discontent was diverted into hymns
> and worship. Maybe the old imperialists knew what they were doing when
> they sent in missionaries to convert the colonized.
I recently saw the stats for relgious affilitation in the Washington, DC area. Maryland and Virginia had a rate that was close to the national average. The District's stats concerning religious affiliation were off the charts.
Chuck0