To the contrary, Jesus specifically spoke of paying Caesar’s taxes and Paul exhorted Christians to obey the rulers put in place by God. And they were talking about pagan Rome, a murderous regime indeed and one that ultimately executed both of them unjustly, so it’s not as though they had only a government that agreed with them in mind.
As long as you are not buying the condoms for contraceptive purposes, there is no moral issue in that situation. To go back to.St. Paul, he didn’t think it was intrinsically wrong for Christians to purchase and eat meat taken from animals sacrificed to false gods, so purchasing unrelated products from the same seller can hardly be bad. (Paul cautioned against giving scandal to other believers in eating such food, and the Council of Jerusalem put “meat sacrificed to idols” on its no-no list, but both cases were matters of improving relations between Christians with different sensitivities; Paul clearly doesn’t think the act itself is sinful.)
As others have said, taxes pay for good things, too, things that benefit the poor and needy, things that benefit all of us. And anyway, if Catholics stopped paying their taxes, they wouldn’t get away with it. Much better to form a coalition not to vote for anyone who supports abortion or the federal funding of Planned Parenthood. I don’t understand why its director made a base salary of $520,000/year. I do not donate a penny to charities in which the “bosses” make that kind of money. The work they do is not that difficult.
Ah, but we are not supposed to be overly concerned with mans laws, especially if it conflicts with Gods laws. Jesus warned us MANY would be persecuted due to his name and encouraged us to keep to our faith…problem is, in the modern world, most people would not even consider doing this. I dont think any of this is coincidence, the enemy has ensured its literally impossible for most of us to avoid things like this.
Your object is to win, not lose. Because you are trying to help people. So that even before you begin to think to fight the battle you must have already won it. This requires numbers, several times the number of the opposition.
I think that would be the best way.
Like it was stated above, for this to work, it would take the numbers to do it, I dont think many people would even consider doing such a thing, far too many christians are more worried about the secular laws, if churches even suggest it, it wont go anywhere, just one or two parishes would not be enough, they would all be arrested, but if a majority in every state took part…that probably would work overnight.
Right, we cant get on a bus to end abortion, but what all those people did back then, was disobeying laws in certain areas, they knew they would be arrested in large numbers by this, same thing could be done with abortion, but we would have to find a law to break regarding abortion, where numerous people would be arrested, maybe something like getting lots of people to stand around the abortion centers, when some are arrested, more come in and take their spots, of course, there would have to be enough people for the city/ state to be overwhelmed and have to call in national guard.
I do not believe in militancy.
Exactly. Mass protest is a tool of the political left. No amount of mass protesting will do any good so long as peoples’ hearts remain unchanged. Those whose hearts are unchanged will only find other avenues to accomplish what they will.