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Arc Of The Moral Universe?
n 1853, an abolitionist minister named Theodore Parker said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” The saying took on new life and popularity when Martin Luther King Jr. began quoting it in the 1960s. Since then, that declaration has become a pillar of an unacknowledged but very real secular religion. It’s surprising that so many churches, denominations, and faith leaders have embraced that religion. Their cheerful, man-pleasing faith says that people are basically good and getting better — more enlightened all the time. They believe that one day their descendants will turn this world into a perfect utopia to which Jesus may (or may not) at last return. Some of these people add to the spiritual sound of their beliefs using Christianese words like “millennium.”
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