romans 13

Self-definition and even strident public opposition are one thing. Parsing who’s a “real” Christian and who’s not is something else.

When Sessions invokes Romans 13 he’s reading the Bible through his white, patriarchal, confederate Christianity that marshaled the same argument using the same passage to defend slavery on the grounds that it was both biblical and lawful.

Better historical context just compounds the question of the adequacy of this Book, given its wildly divergent ethical uses.

It’s never been truer that even the Devil can quote Scripture for his own purposes.

In short, Jeff Sessions is a gutless coward, without the courage of his professed religious beliefs; without even a rudimentary moral compass beyond White America Good. Brown America Bad.

To the administration’s creeping authoritarianism let’s add theocracy.

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