The White pastor of a megachurch in California spat hearth and brimstone on a latest Sunday, barking to his congregants that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was “not a Christian in any respect” and misrepresented Christianity.
John MacArthur, 85, the chief of Grace Group Church in Solar Valley, California, about 30 miles north of Los Angeles, reportedly ripped MLK for being a supposed race-baiter and “immoral” individual.
MacArthur denounced a bunch of evangelical pastors generally known as Collectively for the Gospel [T4G] for honoring King a number of years in the past, Proper Wing Watch reported.
“[T4G] purchased into the deceptiveness of the woke motion and the racial baiting that was happening a few years in the past, and it actually put them out of existence,” MacArthur reportedly mentioned. “The unusual irony was a 12 months later, they did the identical factor for Martin Luther King, who was not a Christian in any respect, whose life was immoral.”
John MacArthur, an influential right-wing evangelical preacher, denounced Rev. Martin Luther King as an “unbeliever,” including to MacArthur’s historical past of cringe-worthy feedback, on race, slavery, spiritual freedom, and extra. https://t.co/RC1ed2JQ7f
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MacArthur continued, “I’m not saying [King] didn’t do some social good, and I’ve at all times been glad he was a pacifist, or he might have began an actual revolution. However you don’t honor a non-believer who misrepresented Christ and every thing concerning the gospel,” in response to NewsOne and Baptist Information International.
This Martin Luther King critic additionally mentioned Christianity does ‘not free the slaves’
MacArthur had extra outlandish statements for the congregation, together with the assumption that there isn’t any such factor as being “homosexual,” and that Christianity doesn’t “free the slaves” and doesn’t give “equal social rights.”
LGBTQ Nation reported that, on a earlier event, MacArthur advised his congregants these jaw-dropping ideas: “The Bible is abundantly clear — slavery is the center of what it means to be a real Christian,” and “Christianity doesn’t free slaves. Christianity doesn’t give equal social rights. … Jesus didn’t propound equal rights and he didn’t upset the social order…. Moderately, all of them affirmed that, with nice worry of God and nice respect, you’re to be submissive to your masters. Whether or not they’re good and delicate or whether or not they’re unreasonable — you’re to submit.”
Relating to the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, MacArthur additionally mentioned, “Nobody is homosexual. Folks commit adultery, they commit sins of homosexuality, they lie, they steal, they cheat,” in response to NewsOne and Baptist Information International.
“That’s like saying, ‘You understand, I hold robbing banks, however I’m a robber. I’m a financial institution robber. What am I gonna do? I’m a financial institution robber.’ That’s not an excuse for what you do,” MacArthur added. “Are there sure form of impulses that lead folks in that path? Sure. However I believe one of many actually lethal elements of that is to let folks outline themselves as homosexual.”
As he proudly factors out beneath, MacArthur is seemingly accustomed to having of us rise up and stroll out on his sermons:
