Re: Priests as freedom fighters

Steve Hayes <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Mar 2025 06:52:07 +0200
Newsgroups alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox,alt.politics.religion,soc.rights.human,alt.christnet.ethics,alt.religion.christianity
Organization Khanya Publications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 20:51:00 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Steve Hayes, <news:[email protected]>
>
>> The Serbian Orthodox Church, the largest religious community in the
>> country, has been divided over these protests from the very beginning.
>> While the overwhelming majority of its bishops have chosen to remain
>> silent, there have been isolated voices within the episcopate both for
>> and against the protests. Students of the Faculty of Theology in
>> Belgrade have joined the protests, and individual theologians have
>> expressed their support as well.
>
>| Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is
>| no authority except that which God has established. The authorities
>| that exist have been established by God. (Romans 13)
>
>Those "priests as freedom fighters" are heretics.
>
>Any authority is a good from God, it's established by God.

Indeed, but when it is corrupt, its corruption is not from God. 


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