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Seeing how disparate the interpretations were was certainly enlightening. But then:

    I think we'd be hard pressed to find any religious concept that isn't disputed by someone.

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Romans 13 might be more applicable for the specific case of obedience, but the underlying problem is that these people can't acknowledge a government that is separated from the church.

Besides, giving someone a whole chapter as reference means TL;DR. The Caesar quote stands alone. Regardless of how much people can argue about where the separation needs to be set, it must be there somewhere.

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As for using the Bible as a guiding source ... someone asked Jesus that and his answer seems pretty clear.