Texas pastor Dwight McKissic argued, “If you believe Donald Trump is a Christian and Martin Luther King Jr. was not…your belief is driven by White Supremacist theology.”
“I cannot track with or trust a person’s theology that concludes that Donald Trump and Jonathan Edwards (who wrote a sermon on the back of a slave receipt, documenting his purchase of a 14yr old girl) are saved, but MLK was not a Christian,” McKissic went on to argue. “That’s White Supremacist theology on steroids.”
Evangelist Justin Peters replied, “Neither Trump nor King is a Christian.”
“Trump has repeatedly said he has never asked God for forgiveness. That’s not a Christian,” Peters continued. “King denied all the fundamental tenets of basic Christianity and was a serial adulterer right up to the point of his death. That’s not a Christian either.”
Others weighed in to the conversation online to criticize MacArthur for having claimed on more than one occasion that he was with civil rights leaders Charles Evers and John Perkins in Memphis, Tennessee, on the night of King’s assassination—something Evers has denied ever happened.
Others still highlighted MacArthur’s problematic comments about slavery from a 2012 video clip.
“It is a little strange that we have such an aversion to slavery because historically there have been abuses,” MacArthur said in that video. “In any kind of human relationship, there can be abuses. There can also be benefits.”
Going on to describe being a slave to Christ, MacArthur said, “Slavery is not objectionable if you have the right master. It’s the perfect scenario.”
