"I am not saying a pastor can’t be about equal rights, only that the larger message needs to be about the love of God through his Son Jesus Christ."  Just to point out, how we can about the love of God through Jesus Christ and treat african americans the way we did and still do?  That's the point, who Jesus asked, is our neighbor?  The problem with many white protestant churches is they can never make the connection between the love of God in Christ and how we treat others, its like we are stuck with this individualized "Jesus love me this I know" so now I can go about my merry way with no thought to what kind of a society I am participating in and how badly we treat others! 

If I was to ask almost anyone what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was about they would say civil rights. Dr. King did many good things, but what did he believe about Jesus. When looking a t kings life his religious beliefs are over-shadowed by his civil campaigns. Dr. King had a dream to help change this nation so whites and blacks would accept each other, but where was his dream about every man women and child knowing Jesus? Like Rev. Jessie Jackson and Rev.  Al Sharpton who claim to be ministers, what message did he preach. I never heard from them read your bible, confess your sins and know Jesus. They seem to have other priorities on their mind.

I am not saying a pastor can’t be about equal rights, only that the larger message needs to be about the love of God through his Son Jesus Christ.

First I would like to give perhaps some back ground on the Jewish tolerance in the Europe. Rodney stark writes in God’s Battalion a survey of the Christian crusades, for the most part Christians in the Europe tolerated and accepted Judaism. The Church understood that the Jews had received a Harding of heart so that the full number of Gentiles may come into the kingdom of God.  This doesn’t mean that racism didn’t exist, but as far as the Church was concerned Jews where off limits and were to be accepted and tolerated.

Now as you probably know that during the crusades there were skirmishes that involved Jewish persecution. These out-brakes were condemned by the church and most of Europe. Most of these conflicts happened in Germany. Throughout the last thousand years and perhaps even longer if Jewish persecution broke out it most likely came from Germany.

 Luther was a German all the way through, I am not excusing or justifying Luther’s rant about the Jews, but want to say it should be of no surprise that he was blind to this sin in his life.

<p>But since I learned that these miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, I have published this little book, so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them. I would not have believed that a Christian could be duped by the Jews into taking their exile and wretchedness upon himself. However, the devil is the god of the world, and wherever God's word is absent he has an easy task, not only with the weak but also with the strong. May God help us. Amen.

" First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss in sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire. That would demonstrate to God our serious resolve and be evidence to all the world that it was in ignorance that we tolerated such houses, in which the Jews have reviled God, our dear Creator and Father, and his Son most shamefully up till now but that we have now given them their due reward.

 http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html