God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, wrote the Bible and God knew that this day would come. Peter, foreseeing that the Church could come under attack for failing to obey local law, exhorts us to obey all laws.
Submit to the Law
Corporal Punishment
As a single dad who's been chewed up and spat out by by social services there isn't anything more sickening than a Pastor preaching at full-tilt and yelling about how he beat his kids for any minor infraction of his authority.
Restricted Speech
They didn't have a Constitution or a First Amendment in Paul's day, but it looks like the New Testament is unconstitutional. That's ironic given that many Evangelicals are gun-toting advocates of the Second Amendment.
Intolerance
Intolerance is anathema to Christianity, in theory, so it is particularly warped that Evangelicals have developed a very strong climate of intolerance based on Bible passages. Society, by-and-large and increasingly so, is tolerant.
Discrimination
You can't post a job opening with the requirement that candidates have to be married men. That's sexual discrimination, simple as that. It's illegal.
Male Authority
Is women submitting themselves to their husbands a selling point for Christianity? Does Christianity need to be sold? How about the dominance of male authority? What if there are no men?
Foundation vs. Structure
Here's an interesting question for you about church doctrine: what's the Church's foundation, and what's the structure?
Institutionalized Misogyny
If Adam and Eve had been equal before the curse then they should be equal after the curse, but they have a role reversal. The only conclusion that we can deduce is that before the curse, the woman was in charge.
September 28th
Christian leadership is fighting a loosing battle to stay in control of everything from political power to reproductive rights. They haven't realized that they're fighting for a way of life which is becoming illegal.
Matty's Paradigm 