I’m just curious how some christians might view this advice from Paul in Romans chapter 12 on submission to government authorities, especially verses 6-7 on paying taxes.  My view seems to put modern conservative christians at odd with these statements, given their staunch view on taxes, well, and a slew of other issues.  Understandably these statements from Paul don’t work very well in our modern form of government, but the Greeks had a similar Republic system did they not? Also I would think that a large number of members of our 3 pronged system in the US, (in that a higher percentage of people of higher intelligence/education are atheist/agnostic), are from this same atheist/agnostic camp not simply “God’s servants” as Paul desrcibes. I’ll note that the intelligence/agnostic correlation does seem to only be prevelant in wealthy/western cultures according to studies.

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