[Mrs. Don-o]

You have rightly pointed out some complexities of the Church vs State tension. (And by "some complexities" I mean "mountains of treatises and millennia of discord.")

The same Church that in Romans 13 was calling the State the minister of God's purposes, was calling it a demonic entity by Revelation 13. All of the Apostles but one was martyred; yet the Apostles and their successors never counseled sedition: they did not take up arms even to defend their families and congregations.

[CynicalBear]

>>they did not take up arms even to defend their families and congregations.<<

Luke 22:36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

Those were probably for cutting their meat at the dinner table?