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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="times new roman" size=3>I am very thankful for Jim Meyer’s excellent post; he hit the nail on the head. Watching Ted Ryan run interference for Kimmell and the Wolfman has been amusing, nevertheless it obstructs the point. Kimmell must account for his betrayal of the public trust, as recorded in the CEF Elders’ Minutes. Furthermore, he must explain to his constituents, whom his overseer calls “enemies,” why he views them as “enemies” when they object to him abdicating his charge to this overseer.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="times new roman" size=3>That said, I respectfully disagree with Jim’s interpretation of the Kirk’s Confession of Faith regarding taxation. Granted it’s a confusing statement that appears contradictory. However, it does not allow for churches to commit tax evasion in any form, and the “chastisement” does not refer to getting caught.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="times new roman" size=3>Each paragraph in the Kirk’s Confession contains an <I>affirmation</I> and a <I>denial.</I> In the cited section, paragraph (A) <I>affirms</I> the responsibility of churches to pay their taxes, “only under protest,” and that taxes, or “the weight of such tyrannies,” reflect “judgment from God upon a disobedient church.” In other words, God shows His displeasure with His people by oppressing them through authoritarian rulers who exact taxes.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="times new roman" size=3>Paragraph (A) <I>denies</I> that churches who pay their taxes, or “receive this chastisement,” are guilty of compromise with the State. This clause repudiates fringe groups that evade taxes because they believe the US Government guilty of sedition.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="times new roman" size=3>Paragraph (B) <I>affirms</I> the Eighth Commandment by condemning theft “in all its forms,” which opens the door to charge taxing-governments with stealing. Paragraph (B) <I>denies</I> that “theft can be sanctified, even if it is done in the name of civil justice,” and then walks through the open door to include “oppressive taxation,” which in the Wolfman’s mind is “any taxation.”</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="times new roman" size=3>In short, the Kirk’s confession requires them to “accept . . . taxation only under protest,” even though such taxation represents “theft . . . in the name of civil justice.” This means that the Wolfman must explain why he does not pay his taxes to the civil magistrate according to his own Confession, which he drafted, because this inconsistency between confession and conduct looks like another example of his barefaced hypocrisy.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="times new roman" size=3>Put another way, he never paid a dime in taxes despite Confession, Idaho code, or Internal Revenue Code, but he barked out his protest, howling, “slam-dunk harassment,” after he defrauded the government for over a decade. We see the “protest,” but we don’t see the taxes. As Jim eloquently wrote, “The enemy is misguided faith in arrogant, socially irresponsible, and money-hungry church leadership.” And the Wolfman’s hunger for money cannot be satisfied.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="times new roman"><FONT size=3>Memo to the Wolfman:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="times new roman" size=3>Quit bitchin’ and start pitchin’.</FONT></SPAN></P></DIV><p>
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