Re: Death of Zoya Krakhmalnikova

On May 19, 4:01 am, infowolf1 <infowo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.

Paul doesn't fool around with nuances, however, at least
not in Romans 13.  He simply says "Let every soul be
subject to the existing authorities."  There is no visible
irony, double meaning, exceptions, or waffling.  A few
sentences later he demands full submission with regard
to taxes, revenue, respect, and honor.