Romans 13 Doesn't Say That

Alan Stang has a good article today that is, as usual, all over the place but still makes poignant and proper points. Who is our God? Is it the state or our Lord? He also belatedly decided to write about the Haliburton concentration camps and the preachers who will be shills for tyranny when the government comes after the patriots to save us all from something. Probably bird flu. But I wouldn't bank on it.

Of course all this applies not alone to local media, but also to people in local government, to school officials, to politically correct local businessmen, etc. They remind me of Siegfried and Roy, who ran one of the top shows in Vegas, until one of their tigers almost killed Roy. You can feed the tiger, you can befriend it, but it will always be a tiger and it will turn on you. Its purpose in life is to tear off your head.
The local power structure is shooting craps with the tiger. The power boys think they can manipulate the tiger; that the tiger will eat everyone else, but spare them. They think the traitors at the top will invite them to live in the vast underground cities they have built. But what if that is not the case? What if that invitation never comes and the local judge, the principal, the legislator and the local anchor man are abandoned in the communities they betrayed? You know who you are and so do your neighbors, who are liable to turn mean when finally inconvenienced. The list of traitors also includes the men you most would expect to protect the community: the preachers. Word now arrives that government propaganda flacks are meeting with pastors and telling them it is their responsibility to keep the flocks in line when martial law is declared, including forced inoculation, gun seizure, property confiscation, relocation to (concentration) camps and all the other Communist indicia of dictatorship.
And the preachers predictably are signing on. Remember that preachers in Nazi Germany worshipped queer Adolf as much as Republicruds here worship Drunk W. Bush. Some even wore Nazi uniforms to important events. Here they will appear as ersatz cowboys like Drunk. The word is that the government is even telling them to use the perversion of Romans 13 for the purpose.
I have already written at length about Romans 13. Because of this latest intervention by the District of Criminals into the Church, we must do so again. According to the perversion, Romans 13 teaches that we must do whatever the government commands, however odious, because all power comes from God, who ordained government to good works, and so on. The trouble is that Hitler’s preachers taught the same thing.
What does scripture actually say? One of the biggest mistakes you can make with it is to quote a verse or part of a verse to prove some point, without considering the verses that surround it. If you don’t consider the context, you can make scripture "prove" anything you want, even the opposite of what it really says.
So, remember that in scripture government was and is a punishment. God ruled directly through his judges and prophets. But the children of Israel were dissatisfied. They wanted a government, wanted to be like other nations. God pointed out that they were not like other people; they were the chosen. He warned that a government would take away their sons and daughters for the king’s work and the military. They would run beside the king’s chariots.....................

You need to ask the preacher to declare publicly whether he has participated in any of the sessions in which government propaganda pimps train compliant preachers. Is he working for God, or for Mammon? Scripture says he can’t work for both. If he chooses Mammon, you have clasped a viper to your breast. What would he preach in the wake of another attack like Nine Eleven? You need to flee from him as Joseph fled from the wife of Potiphar, however risky that was.
How different today’s preachers are from those of the War for Independence. Many fought the English, so many that the English scornfully called them the "black regiment." Peter Muhlenberg, a pastor, finished a sermon, took off his robes and revealed underneath them not the SS regalia, but the uniform of a colonel of militia. Muhlenberg did not endorse today’s Nazi interpretation of Romans 13. He mustered out as a major general. That is why there is a Muhlenberg college, a Muhlenberg county and many others things in the area named for him.
In fact, consider that had the Founding Fathers subscribed to the Nazi version of Romans 13, there would not have been a war. There would have been no independence. We would still be Englishmen, singing "God Save the Queen." It would have been "wrong" –unscriptural – for the colonists to rise and overthrow criminal English government. Yet the Fathers, who were Christians, did so.
The question now is: Do you worship Smirk W. Bush or do you worship God?