• DessertStorms@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s

    except that’s not what taxes are - taxes are citizens money going in to a pot to pay for things citizens need.
    Also doesn’t sound like something Jesus would say (in the context being portrayed) considering how much he hated the rich and their greed (to be clear, I’m not even christian, but this is well known).
    Either way, some rich fuck trying to claim them for themsleves (or whoever added it later to serve the ruler of the time) doesn’t change what taxes are.

    I love people so deliberately missing the point… Fuck Jesus and what he did or didn’t say, taxes aren’t for and don’t belong to the ruler of a country/community/whatever, no matter what that ruler tells you, it really isn’t that fucking complicated.

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      Also doesn’t sound like something Jesus would say

      It is literally something he said, after specifically being asked about paying taxes.

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      Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?” He saw through their duplicity and said to them, “Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?”“Caesar’s,” they replied. He said to them, “Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” Luke 20 NIV

      It’s pretty clear they’re taking about taxes.