It wasn't posted as an obituary thread at the outset. And he was a controversial figure about whom both positive and negative things may be said. They are being said here and I see no reason to hold back on the negatives. It's my view that his impact on the world, on America in particular, was overwhelmingly negative, in spite of his anti-segregationalist stance (which has not been overlooked in this thread). He was responsible for adding to and exploiting that over-simplistic religious fervour, imbued with fake certainties, that looks for easy false solutions to the problems of the world.