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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen the US government snatches children, it's biblical to resist the law
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/15/resisting-unjust-laws-biblical-trump-administrationWhen the US government snatches children, it's biblical to resist the law
Daniel José Camacho
There is no divine mandate requiring us to accept an unjust policy or law. You wouldnt know that by listening to the Trump administration
@danieljcamacho
Fri 15 Jun 2018 10.11 EDT
Last modified on Fri 15 Jun 2018 15.39 EDT
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For every passage in the bible about submitting to authority, theres another passage about a prophet calling out the authorities. Jesus Christ, himself, was crucified for subverting religious and political authorities. At the very beginning of the Exodus story, a group of midwives disobey a kings cruel policy targeting children.
These are the kinds of biblical stories that informed Angelina Grimké when she became one of the very few white southern women to openly support the cause of abolition. In her Appeal to Christian Women of the South written in 1836, she states: If a law commands me to sin I will break it ...The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
There is no divine mandate requiring us to accept an unjust policy or law. But, some might ask, how do we differentiate a just law from an unjust law? Who decides? That was a question King addressed with the following principle, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. Its the golden rule writ large.
This is what was at stake when a reporter passionately asked Sarah Sanders if she has any empathy for separated immigrant families given the fact that shes a parent of young children.
Tellingly, she never answered the question.
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When the US government snatches children, it's biblical to resist the law (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2018
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pnwmom
(109,028 posts)1. According to the Bible, if a law itself breaks the greatest commandment,
then you must break that law.
And the second part of the greatest commandment is simple: love thy neighbor as thyself.
And when Jesus was asked who that neighbor was, he told a story that, in essence, meant:
Your neighbor is everyone. Even your greatest enemy.
Voltaire2
(13,293 posts)2. The policy is abhorrent.
Religious justifications for and against this are irrelevant.