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