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Jesus statement was not a clever catch 22,
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Yes, it was.
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You say the money wasn't Ceasars' because his claim to collect taxes was spurious. When you live in a country, you enjoy it's protection, its roads, its police protection ect. ect. By not paying the bill for these accoutrement's, you are in effect freeloading.
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Again, you skew the truth while ignoring the root issues. As the Spooner quote demonstrates, one must voluntarily ask for some type of "protection" - there can be no "implied" consent - and I would deny that the CIA is protecting Americans,
it is actually opening them up to danger by creating more enemies for the U.S.
As to the territory issue, why doesn't the State just leave? Who is entitled to occupy the space?
Perhaps a hardcore statist would simply assume that the government rightfully owns everything, but libertarians, such as myself, reject that assumption, given the State's history of conquest and plunder. We believe rightful property comes from homesteading and voluntary exchange, not conquest. The State doesn't rightfully own property; people do.
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No pastor or biblical scholar would agree with you who didn't have some sort of personal/political agenda.
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Appeal to Authority fallacy.
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I am not going to get into specifics and pick your argument apart because,
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...because you can't.