Re: Priests as freedom fighters

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.

See here:

<https://skeireins.substack.com/p/on-being-subject-to-authority>

Saint Paul, in his letter to the Romans, famously writes:

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is
no authority except from God, and those that exist have been
instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists
what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. (Rom
13:1-2)

Seems straightforward, no? St Paul wants the Romans in his communities
to obey the state, because states get their authority from God.

The only problem is, because Saint Paul did not speak English, this is
not what he actually wrote. This is a translation—specifically, the
Revised Standard Version. Although I prefer the RSV to any other
translation as a matter of course, it is still a translation, and
therefore—like all translations into English!—an act of theft, a
necessarily partial and selective transmission of the author’s actual
words.

Read it here, because some of the characters do not reproduce on
Usenet. 

<https://skeireins.substack.com/p/on-being-subject-to-authority>


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Steve Hayes
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