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   soc.rights.human   
   XPost: alt.christnet.ethics   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 20:51:00 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov"    
   wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes,    
   >   
   >> 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.   
      
   Indeed, but when it is corrupt, its corruption is not from God.   
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa   
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   Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com   
      
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