Tweets - September 27th - Romans 13

I find it doubtful that Paul wrote Romans 13, but I wonder who exactly was the author's audience. He sounds like someone fully aware that they're on their own, abandoned by God, deathly afraid of the world, and views authority the only acceptable and appropriate way of dealing with an uncertain world. I live in Maryland, and if people continued to "do" Romans 13 rather than rebel against Romans 13 long ago, I'd be working in a white man's tobacco field.

I suppose the author forgot about Jesus himself. I'm certain the author considered Jesus "good", but that didn't stop him from having nails driven through his wrists. So whether you do good or evil, the outcome may be one and the same. The ONLY ones who truly benefit from a book like Romans 13 are governing authorities. For the rest of us, it would have been better for it to have been ripped out and tossed in the trash, along with Romans chapter 1, 2 Timothy, Hebrews, and Jude (the bad FAR outweighs any good, and the damage done to the human race has been immense).

But what can we say? The church became the graceless church the very moment she trusted nothing and feared everything. Seeing that nothing remotely like "salvation" comes by grace, she clung to laws and commandments (which can only be enforced with weapons and subjugation) - no matter how offensive or brutal - and this pleases the governments of the world (from the Roman Empire till today). It even pleased and inspired every hate-spewing and war-mongering prophet ever since. Good job!