Looking For the Root of Freedom

For John, BLUF:  We are a God produced people and cannot and should not hide from that fact.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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In Commenting on yesterday's edition of Meet the Press, and the interview with Mssr Gerard Biard, the editor in chief of Charlie Hebdo, Professor Althouse catches this point:

We are convinced that religion has no place in the political arena, that once religion injects itself into the political debate, the political debate becomes totalitarian.

Professor Althouse then pivots to Dr Martin Luther King, Jr,♠ and his speech at the Lincoln Memorial and this passage:

And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

    Free at last! Free at last!

    Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

Then, like a good lawyer, she asks her question:

Could that be translated or even mistranslated into secular language?  That's what Biard wants people to do and insists must be done to avoid totalitarianism.

I am skeptical that it can.

Hat tip to Ann Althouse.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Happy Birthday, Dr King, and thank you for doing the things that merited a holiday in your name.