Re: Priests as freedom fighters

"Oleg Smirnov" <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Mar 2025 19:55:25 +0300
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro, <news:[email protected]>
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 11:32:11 +0300, Oleg Smirnov wrote:

>>>> Those "priests as freedom fighters" are heretics.
>>>
>>> You say that like it's a bad thing ...
>>
>> For Christians, the only way of relation with an authority is
>> to obey it (which, in turn, means any authority is certainly
>> non-Christian (although it may well pretend to be Christian)).

God arranged life so that there's no lack of powers seeking
to be an authority, so that a formation of an authority always
means disobedience to some competing authorities.

> Your religion tells you it's a virtue to believe without evidence, doesn't
> it?

Mind reading and vulgar atheism are both not good, I think.

Underlying topic here is on how social competition should be
seen through Christian ethics, since any political activism is
linked to competition among men, groups, parties etc