Martin Luther King Day celebrates the destruction of the black church

A good church serves as a sanctuary for repentance and a source of courage to defy an unrighteous world.

That’s how I imagined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his generation used the so-called black church. Or did they?

Today, as we celebrate the life and legacy of MLK, I’m unsure how the civil rights movement genuinely used the church. You judge a tree by its fruit. Today, the black church is far more obedient to political doctrine than scriptural doctrine and far more interested in political defiance than spiritual repentance.

King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929. From 1960 until his assassination in 1968, King co-pastored alongside his father at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. His tree is rooted in Atlanta. The fruit in Atlanta is bad. The Big Peach is known as the “black gay Mecca” and the southern headquarters for gangsta rap music.

Atlanta’s black churches operate as platforms to push the Democratic Party’s agenda, including abortion rights, the LGBTQ movement, and the destruction of the patriarchy.

So it was no surprise on Sunday that embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis sought refuge inside Big Bethel AME Church. Her political opponents have accused her of hiring her supposed lover, Nathan Wade, to prosecute former President Donald Trump for alleged election interference.

Loving Obama and hating Trump are the inspirations at the root of the new doctrine guiding the black church.

Wade is married. Willis’ office has authorized $654,000 in payments to Wade. Willis’ critics claim Wade has used the money to finance lavish vacations for himself and Willis.

Rather than repent, Willis stood at Big Bethel’s pulpit and defiantly blasted her critics as racist.

“First thing they say, ‘Oh, she’s gonna play the race card now.’ But no, God, isn’t it them that’s playing the race card when they only question one?” Willis said. “Isn’t it them playing the race card when they constantly think I need someone from some other jurisdiction in some other state to tell me how to do a job I’ve been doing almost 30 years?”

When Willis says they’re only questioning “one” of her hires, she’s leaving out John Floyd and Anna Green Cross, two white lawyers Willis retained to work on the Trump prosecution. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Floyd has been paid $73,000 and Cross $43,000. A reminder: Georgia taxpayers have paid Willis’ alleged lover $654,000.

Willis wasn’t done. She wrapped up her 35-minute sermon this way:

We are at a time in history when you can no longer sit back and just let other folks do. You cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world. The Lord is completing us. We are not perfect. We need your prayers. We need to be allowed to stumble. We need grace. With that kind of support, we will move mountains and do Jesus’ will, stumbling all the way. So this flawed, hard-headed, imperfect child has a message for each of you today. Please find a way to do your extraordinary, God-given assignment and make this community and the world better for all of His people.

The congregation at Big Bethel applauded throughout Willis’ stump speech. This woman has been sleeping and vacationing with a married man, funneling him taxpayer money in an effort to “save the world.”

This is disgraceful. She didn’t come to church to repent. She came to church to justify her sin. Her explanation is that she is sinning in pursuit of righteousness.

Her hatred of Trump sanctifies her sin.

For the last 16 years, the black church has argued two things: 1) Love of Barack Obama justifies sin, so feel good about supporting same-sex marriage, the LGBTQ movement, and abortion. 2) Hatred of Trump justifies sin, so ignore the unethical behavior of his opponents, the insanity of rampant illegal immigration, historic inflation, the emasculation of men, and rising lawlessness.

Fani Willis, Michelle Obama, Stacey Abrams, Kamala Harris, Kentanji Brown Jackson, Joy Reid, Karine Jean-Pierre, Don Lemon, and the rest of the black matriarchy are going to save the world.

Black Girl Magic!

Haven’t you been watching the string of movies and television shows featuring the black woman savior trope? “The Woman King,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Hidden Figures.”

The black matriarchy is the new religion of black Christianity. Loving Obama and hating Trump are the inspirations at the root of the new doctrine guiding the black church.

This is the fruit of Martin Luther King Jr. I don’t enjoy saying that. I grew up seeing King as a hero. He still is in some respects. But I can’t ignore the fruit. It’s fruity. It is sexually immoral, ruled by racial idolatry, and committed to a brand of politics disconnected from scripture.