| Sumario: | This article draws on interactive social media content collected from Facebook and Twitter during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to examine responses to the public health measures that restricted indoor forms of religious assembly. Paul the Apostle argued that Christians are obligated to obey all earthly authorities because governments were ordained by God; thus, disobedience to them is also disobedience to God. Caesar I cum i token of the state allows for the issue of state authority to be biblically relevant, while abortion clinics and gay weddings I cum i whatabouts define instances of when state authority has infringed on religious freedom. Or is the Constitution considered on par with religious authority in being free from government?.
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