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Fortunately, I don't have a pastor. I will never again have a pastor. The teachings of Jesus are sufficient for me.
With that said, the passage from Romans you quote above is just a snippet out of a two chapter list of instructions from Paul. When one reads it in context of chapters 12 and 13, one quickly discovers that one's obligation to God is also required of the Christian.
The pastors who call out the racism of the President do submit to the government. The pastors who protest in the halls of Congress do submit to the government. As yet I've not seen any pastor protesting the evil of government resist arrest or punishment for their behavior. In that regard they follow Jesus' teachings and the example from His life as He was arrested, tried and convicted by the secular government of His time.
Within the context of Paul's teaching in those two chapters, the life and teachings of Jesus, and even the examples of the Old Testament prophets who spoke out against the leaders of Israel, it is obvious you are attempting to use this passage incorrectly as a method of whitewashing evil in an attempt to lead Followers astray and convince them to embrace evil as acceptable when government commits it.
[Edit] And Paul's own life of being arrested and placed in prison shows that even Paul understood there were limits to what one should endure from government.
I suggest you do some research on the government in Paul's time. Not only were they racists but the emperor of Rome was a pedophile and murdered and raped many little boys. He also had giant sex orgies in his palace and was anti-christian in multiple forms. But yet Paul commanded people to submit to him and that is also a commandment from God.
Trump is NOTHING compared to the leaders in Rome the time. I'm often surprised at how people aren't more aware of how evil Rome was.
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