Comments by "리주민" (@user-nf9xc7ww7m) on "ABC News"
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@kingdavid8178 that ones a bit tricky. The bible says to submit to authority, and to serve as a servant to his master. Even nonviolent marches and sit-ins may not be possible according to that law. Unions didn't exist back then. If you didn't serve the master according to his will, you were fired and thrown out. The only way not to obey the authority (even that of brutal dictators (like the caesars whom jesus even said) is if doing so would violate gods law. Freedom of speech, guns, and property even are not covered. If police would say bow down and serve us as your God, then yes, then according to the bible, you can refuse.
However, the law of the land is the constitution. As such, we can follow that and be submitting to authority (at least in one point of view). The constitution gives us the right to speech and assembly (including peaceful protest). If laws written in contrary to the constitution, the we should say so just as one would have asked for clarification of orders in the old days. The supreme court would be final arbiter.
Dictatorships that have no constitution or that have no provision for speech and assembly, cannot according to the bible, protest as the authority does not permit them. It can get funny in north Korea and China though as their constitutions as written give them more freedoms than the us or other liberal democracies. Not that they follow them, but the authority was given so perhaps the bible says they're good to go there.
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