[Vision2020] Taxes and the Intoleristas

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

Rose et. al.

This was an excellent elucidation of your position.

Remember, though, that many who think as Wilson does, and this includes 
millions of fundamentalist evangelicals in America, believe that God bestows the 
rights of the State, with God coming first.  They do not look at the State and 
God as separate authorities with each authority having a different and 
appropriate realm of command, as it were.  This is the secularization, the removal God 
of government, that many evangelicals are rebelling against.  This is a very 
commonly held position today, placing Wilson more into the mainstream of 
current American Christianity, than I think some people realize.  There is a very 
large group of activist evangelicals in America, again, millions of them, who 
want God in government, and are working towards that end 

It is against the religious beliefs of people who think in this manner to 
view taxation by government as an issue than can be separated from the moral 
command and authority of God, regardless of the statement you quoted allegedly 
spoken by Christ, that appears to suggest government and religion operate with 
separate claims and authority.

Ted Moffett
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