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Originally Posted by Big Brother
The 'logic' you've presented is so convoluted that it is almost impossible to follow.
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Taxation is theft. If anything I presented is false,
then prove it.
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You've quoted about three lines of scripture and used about 10,000 words to twist it until it says what you want.
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I did a little more than that. Again, if something is in error POINT OUT SPECIFICALLY WHAT IT WAS.
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"Render unto Ceaser that which is Ceaser's "... which means,... pay your damn taxes, boss.
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No, that's not what was meant, as was fully explained earlier. The only one twisting the truth here is you. The statement was a little more complicated than you want to admit:
"What Jesus did say though was an ingenious case of rhetorical misdirection to avoid being immediately arrested, which would have interfered with Old Testament prophecy of His betrayal as well as His own previous predictions of betrayal.
When the Pharisees asked Him whether or not it is lawful to pay taxes to Caesar they did so as a ruse in the hopes of being able to either have Him arrested as a rebel by the Roman authorities or to have Him discredited in the eyes of His followers. At this time in Israel's history it was an occupied territory of the Roman Empire, and taxes--which were being used to support this occupation--were much hated by the mass of the common Jews. Thus, this question was a clever Catch-22 posed to Jesus by the Pharisees: if Jesus answered that it is not lawful then the Pharisees would have Him put away, but if He answered that it is lawful then He would appear to be supporting the subjection of the Jewish people by a foreign power. Luke 20:20 makes the Pharisees' intent in asking this question quite clear:
So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might seize on His words, in order to deliver Him to the power and the authority of the governor."
Again, if something I posted wasn't true, THEN SPECIFICALLY STATE WHAT IT WAS.
Those who are using the government to steal from others and reallocate funds to them should stop freeloading off the producers.