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  1. You’re frequent reminder that Bob McCroskie wanted the right to beat children, beat them to death if his “god” commanded it.

    He also believes stabbing a brown kid to death is an appropriate reaction to tagging and the murderer shouldn’t have been charged.

    Someone needs to check his hard drive.

  2. It seems strange that any Christian would want political power when the Bible is full of warnings about the danger of church state combinations and the lessons of history show the same. The sad reality is that most who call themselves Christian are just as wicked as many from the world although there is also hope that as the final events described in Revelation 13 and 14 play out everyone gets to make a choice that can lead to an eternal future without people like Bob to spoil the fun.

    1. Right early on, in Genesis 4, the Bible lays out the proper relationship between the spiritual and temporal realms manifest as church and state, and how the state departs from that arrangement to the cost of all. The whole of the Hebrew scriptures are concerned with, among other things, the right relationship between church and state, that is, with the idea that the civil authorities must listen to the word of the prophets of God. In our present age the blood of Abel is crying out from the earth of Palestine while the shadow of Cain stalks the “civilized” world. The civil authorities have lost their moral compass, indeed they have sought to completely silence the voice of righteousness.
      The Greek scriptures continue this theme even when the rupture between civil and religious authority seems to have become absolute with the crucifixion of the Christ. The secular authorities should not wage war on God. Going beyond that, Genesis 4 implies that the civil authority has a duty to keep, in the sense of protect, spiritual authority.

    2. Some Christians claim on the strength of Romans 13:1 that we should obey the “civil authorities”. Not so. If “there is no authority except from God” then the ungodly by definition have no authority. Therefore the people have no need to submit to the state, but rather the civil authorities must submit themselves to God. The state must desist from grinding the faces of the poor, cease from the murder of innocents and follow the word of God in all respects. Only then will it become deserving of the conditional obedience of the people.