Capitol Hill Blue Forums We shall overcome

I don't think religious people want to be afraid, I think fearful people want to be religious.

I think religious people were responsible for originating the song "we shall overcome", were they not? And I think religious people were largely responsible for the monumental achievements of the Civil Rights era. I think they would not have achieved nearly so much as they did, had they not been, shall we say, fearless.

If I'm not mistaken, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a religious person. I think he was extraordinarily courageous, and that the foundation of his courage was his religion.

I think fearful people, as Barack Obama so rightly observed, often cling to "G*D and guns" to protect them from the unknown, invincible things they fear. I don't think courageous people cling to G*D. I think courageous people who choose to be religious do so as a matter of faith.