{"id":1663,"date":"2013-11-28T05:27:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T10:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godonomics\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2013-10-30T20:52:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T00:52:59","slug":"christianity-is-the-source-of-civil-rights-and-liberty-why-fredrick-nietzsche-hated-christianity-and-martin-luther-saw-it-as-the-source-of-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godonomics\/2013\/11\/christianity-is-the-source-of-civil-rights-and-liberty-why-fredrick-nietzsche-hated-christianity-and-martin-luther-saw-it-as-the-source-of-liberty.html","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King: Christianity is the Source of Civil Rights and Liberty: Why Fredrick Nietzsche Hated Christianity and Martin Luther Saw it as The Source of Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"
Loss of Life Gives us an Invitation to Engage. <\/strong><\/span>The second way Jesus was in a World of Pain was not in Egypt, but in Bethlehem. \u00a0There is a blood bath going on this Christmas. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0All the children under the age of two will be killed. \u00a0\u00a0And this example of Jesus is an invitation for you and I to draw near to Christ and engage in our broken world.16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men. 17 Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying: \u00a018 \u201c A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, \u00a0Refusing to be comforted, Because they are no more.\u201d<\/span>Some parts of Christmas can be filled with sadness. Herod killed off all the male children under two. \u00a0\u00a0As the reader read this… images of the Passover would come to mind. God just said He called his son out of Egypt, just as He called His people out of Egypt. \u00a0\u00a0His deliverer, Jesus, was delivered from a evil dictator who was killing off kids, just as Moses was delivered from an evil dictator who was killing off all the kids. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Matthew is showing us that Jesus is our Passover. He is our Moses. He came into an evil world that kills off children ~without a second glance. \u00a0\u00a0Paul notes that He is our Passover Lamb in 1 Cor 5:7b\u201cFor Christ Our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The first passover lamb came into a land filled with slavery, abuse, genocide, and infanticide, and God made a way of escape. The Second Passover Lamb (Jesus) came into a world of pain too.<\/p>\n

Two questions come to mind as I read this prediction from Jeremiah.<\/p>\n

1) Question 1: Why is \u201closs of life\u201d Such a Pattern in History? (Exodus, Jeremiah, Matthew, etc.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

18 \u201c A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, \u00a0Refusing to be comforted, Because they are no more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Where did human rights come from? \u00a0Where did this idea of civil rights come from? \u00a0When did \u201cnot killing children\u201d become a societal ethic? \u00a0It has not been a historic way of thinking….<\/p>\n

Aristotle said, \u201cyou can tell by common sense that some people don’t have same value and worth.\u201d \u00a0Hitler taught Eugenics and had a list of which races were worth more than others. He systematically killed off the \u201cless value\u201d races on his list because they were less evolved. Historically, basic human rights given to all individuals was NOT common thinking.<\/p>\n

Brian Terany, history teacher at Cornell, proved human rights come from:<\/p>\n