Re: Death of Zoya Krakhmalnikova

Perhaps these poor words may help this dispute to settle.

Resistance to authorities in the sense of sedition and
overthrow, is not the same thing as refusal to cooperate
with evil orders.

"we ought to obey God rather than men," said Peter when
he'd been ordered by lawful authorities to quit preaching
the Gospel. Now, not all things are of equal im****tance.
The Gospel is first.

But there is plenty of "God is no respecter of persons"
(rank, social distinctions of any kind, to validate abuse
by some double standard) and be kind to your underlings
that renders most of the stuff that people who fight against
traditional societies and tyrannical governments are
concerned about, definite sins. And as such, proper objects
of repression by governments that have become at least
somewhat Christian.

Failure to do so is not the issue.

There have been anarchistic sounding denunciations of
abuses and pretensions by crowned heads and rich people
by Christian writers from early times, i.e., Orthodox. And
Ivan the Terrible killed a monk or priest who denounced him
to his face for his abuses of the people, and the victim was
made a saint of some sort, if I remember correctly.

Justina