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Well, let us put it like that: Does a king or a President for this matter have the authority to order you and me something and we should obey? The answer is obviously yes. Quite naturally. If the king or the President is within his rights according to the law. Now take a Moslem. His law is Qur'an. And according to Qur'an his God is within his rights to order him to die or beat his wife or kill an infidel. Plain and simple.

You see, if you subscribe to the concept of Christ as King in the earthly sense, in terms of authority, then you essentially subscribe to this very logic that is questioned (rightly) by the author of the original contribution. Yes, Christ is the King, but of the Kingdom to come. And his main lesson for us is to be humble and to love our neighbour. Obey in love, but not in hate. Could you imagine Christ ordering somebody to kill somebody else? That is only because love and not authority is central to Christianity.

Yes, Christ is the King, but of the Kingdom to come.

If Christ is not king here and now, then what's the point of being alive? This is absurd. Are you saying the Cross was no victory until the Second Coming? That it's just an empty thing until then? If so, you aren't a Christian. I don't know what you are, but it ain't Christian.