Biden: America should pay attention to Luther`s heritage

RELIGIONS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – Joe Biden, the president of the USA, said America should pay attention to Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy.

Speaking at King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church on Sunday, AP reported, on the occasion of Luther`s birthday, Biden added democracy was at a perilous moment and that the civil rights leader’s life and legacy “show us the way and we should pay attention.”

In his Sunday morning sermon, Biden cited the telling question that King himself once asked of the nation.

“He said, ‘Where do we go from here?’” Biden said from the pulpit. ”Well, my message to this nation on this day is we go forward, we go together, when we choose democracy over autocracy, a beloved community over chaos, when we choose believers and the dreams, to be doers, to be unafraid, always keeping the faith.”

In a divided country only two years removed from a violent insurrection, Biden told congregants, elected officials and dignitaries that “the battle for the soul of this nation is perennial. It’s a constant struggle … between hope and fear, kindness and cruelty, justice and injustice.”

He spoke out against those who “traffic in racism, extremism, insurrection” and said the struggle to safeguard democracy was playing out in courthouses and ballot boxes, protests and other ways. ”At our best, the American promise wins out. … But I don’t need to tell you that we’re not always at our best. We’re fallible. We fail and fall.”