Martin Luther King Good Vs Evil

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Martin Luther King Jr. was a very inspirational person. He believed the way to conquer evil was to defend it peacefully. As a man of God, the reader can see how passionate King was about equality and his faith. Something that King battled through his life and in his book, Strength to Love, is to understand the meaning of evil. In his novel, King believes that evil ceases to be a man’s blindness view based, and to be more especially: spiritual and intellectual views. The most part, many people thinks that evil is the opposite of good, but that is not the case for King. He believes evil is blindness. Throughout the course of history, the struggles between what is good and what his bad is a common theme for everyone across the planet. King states, “Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of the citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue” …show more content…

In this process of the crucifixion, the men who were encouraging the crucifixion was “an expression of Jesus’ awareness of man’s intellectual and spiritual blindness” (King Jr. 35). What King is saying here in this passage that people are not evil, they are blind from the truth. People who are considered to be “evil” are actually people who do not fully understand the truth. The truth both come from the intellectual side and the spiritual side. People can be unclear from things from scholar innovations and also unclear concepts about God. This idea of being blind from the truth of God is the reason why people were yelling at Jesus to crucifixes him. Those people on the sideline were not evil, they were unclear of the truth. As a result of people being unclear of the truth then that means people does not understand nor accept the truth. King does not give a clear explanation of the term evil; however, the reader can infer that it could be mean

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