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"your" money... Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” -- Mat
by empthought 9y ago
"your" money...
Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” -- Matt 22:19-20
- jcranmer 9y ago"Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's" -- Matt 22:21 That story is all about Jesus telling people "religious law doesn't get you out of paying taxes."
- empthought 9y agoCorrect, and neither does the quasi-religious belief that currency somehow has significance in the theoretical absence of a state.