When the US government snatches children, it's biblical to resist the law , The Guardian;
"As writer Rachel Held Evans points out in her new book about the bible, Inspired,
nearly half of all defenses of slavery in the buildup to the American
Civil War were written by Christian ministers citing scripture. Later,
many white Christians anchored their objections to the Civil Rights
movement in Romans 13 and a decontextualized reading of the apostle
Paul.
For every passage in the bible about submitting to authority, there’s
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 king’s 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."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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