The mods from ConsumeProduct being extra grumpy today.
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Looks like you regained about 967 contribs in 5 minutes. Well, that answers my question as to content. Looks like only the noosed Jesus remains hidden, as it's of a different character than all the rest.
Of the many distortions of the plain meaning of various words, one is the idea that Christians worshipped government. When Jesus said give to God what is God's, everyone in the audience knew that Man bears God's image just as coins bear Caesar's. The universe is God's. Within that, Caesar can generally have his worthless NFT's. When the question is put to practice (Acts 4-5), Peter first says, judge whether we must obey God rather than men, and then says (you judged wrong), we must obey God rather than men! If the two disagree, the choice is clear, if they don't disagree, we can obey authorities for civil purposes as far as conscience permits, which each man judges responsibly. I have whole books on Romans 13 to this effect.
You wouldn't know of all the genocides imagined by man that were stopped by God because they didn't happen. So it's a narrow view to argue only from those genocides that he does permit. The fact is that, if you want to argue statistically, a finite number of deaths among Jesus's followers, which are scheduled to end at a certain point in history, can always be overcome by a much larger number of blessing-filled lives in his millennial kingdom and beyond. So, if the plan holds, the free rein that Jesus gives to mankind, allowing a certain number of failed manifestations of rebellious free will, is well worth the blessings we have today and to come.
The only objection people raise is the evidence leading them to believe the plan won't hold. Well, of course free will leads to such evidence being plentiful. The good news is you don't have to believe the enemy's propaganda about its own wins. The reign of Christ in people's lives is always growing and when you're involved with that it doesn't matter to you to hear about evil in the world because you know it'll be smashed and you'll take opportunities to smash what is local to you, backed by the reign of Christ.
Are you interested in the evidence for this hope?