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Rose et. al.<BR>
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This was an excellent elucidation of your position.<BR>
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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 <BR>
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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.<BR>
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Ted Moffett</FONT></HTML>