Romans 13

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/08/Dobbs.May9/index.html

Romans 13, where it is written: "Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves."

So Mr. Dobbs is saying the American governement has been established by God?

I was under the impression that is exactly what our founding fathers did not want. During the time Roman's was written the world was governed mostly by Kings and Emperor's who's service was only for the "pleasure" of God. They were ordained by the preisthood to rule. The founding father's wanted a federal secular government not a theocracy. George Washington could have been King, there were some back then who wanted that, but he rejected the idea.