Source (Bluesky)
Transcript
FFRF:
Here’s how pliable bible-based “morality” is: she swerved right past “thou shalt not kill” and found a verse to justify killing someone for defying authority.
If your ethics can be weaponized that easily, it’s not morality.
Megan Basham:
To those invoking Christianity in this current controversy over the shooting in Minnesota, it is important to remember that our God is a God of order. And he requires submission to all legal authorities.
Romans 13: “For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong.”
Biblically, what Renée Good was doing was actually a sin. She was breaking the law. She was defying legal authority that was justly being carried out.
I’m sad about what happened to her. It’s tragic. But as a Christian, I can reflect that this is why Romans 13 wisely tells us to obey the authorities. It is for our safety and good.
This is called twisting your faith to meet your politics.
It is ignoring that the Bible commands to “do not oppress foreigners as you were once foreigners in Egypt”. And to obey God over man.
And it is ignoring that the Bible has multiple stories of disobedience to authority that is in opposition to God (Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; the Apostles being arrested in the book of Acts)