Cherry-Picking
Jun. 17th, 2018 07:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowSo, once again, people in power have raised St. Paul's words in Romans 13:1-7 to urge obedience to a government's evil laws. Those words were used by slavers in the years before the Civil War, and by "moderates" during the Civil Rights era. That that interpretation is used by USAns, people whose nation was born in a revolt against what were seen as unjust laws, is execrable. But set that aside.
Go ahead and read those words - but also read the words which bracket them, Romans 12:9-21 and 13:8-10; then tell me again that they justify the evil actions of this administration. Me, I'll take Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King over Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Go ahead and read those words - but also read the words which bracket them, Romans 12:9-21 and 13:8-10; then tell me again that they justify the evil actions of this administration. Me, I'll take Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King over Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
