Trump-Deranged Russell Moore Butchers Romans 13

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20 LSB

I’m not sure if Russell Moore’s latest admission that he’s still suffering an acute case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (and still the liberal Democrat he’s always been) is behind the Christianity Astray paywall or not, but take heart – Protestia has a subscription to the birdcage-filling-worthy rag so that you don’t have to.

Former Baptist interloper Russell Moore wants Christians to be as morally adrift as. Uneasy about law enforcement, uneasy about Scripture, uneasy about appeals to order, authority, and justice. And in his latest column responding to the justified killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent, he succeeds—by doing violence not only to the facts of the case, but to the very passages of Scripture he claims to defend.

Moore frames the incident like he’s reporting for Right Wing Watch: an ICE agent “shot protester Renee Good through the head,” followed by emotive language about cursing and blood on the ground. He then anticipates what he regards as the predictable and morally suspect Christian response: an appeal to the plain text and meaning of the Bible. Romans 13, which Moore cited in supporting government-forced church closures, forced masking, and vaccine mandates to supposedly save lives, magically becomes an anti-Christian standard and invalid citation once the life belongs to an ICE agent and the danger is a leftist agitator’s two-ton SUV.