In a more detailed teaching, Martin Luther explains that God and government are not constrained by the commandment not to kill, but that God has delegated his authority in punishing evildoers to the government.

– Lutheranism version of ‘Thou shalt not kill’

Lets repeat…

God has delegated his authority in punishing evildoers to the government

OMG

These men from history who are not seen as prophets (direct telephone with God) seem to know an awful lot about what God says.

I would like to say that I have just as much knowledge about what God thinks (none) and according to me God does not delegate any of his authority to the Government. Government is not a not a form of God. It’s a bunch of people that like organisation and power. There is nothing holy about Government.

(How is it that I keep coming across ‘Martin Luther’ and yet he professes such things as saying Government is as Good as God. I keep hoping people are talking about Martin Luther King, but no.)

What Luther did agree on is that the Pope isn’t the delegate of God either.

Can we, please, somehow, clear up this mess where random men decide that they know what God says/wants.