That's actually an amazingly preceptive observation there, HTRN!
The same thought came to me just about an hour ago, while responding to a FaceBook "friend" who had shared some nonsense about about some comedian mocking Republicans by dressing up as Jesus and regurgitating Republic sound-bites.
In short: The question "What would Jesus do?" is simply not applicable to the political realm (e.g., in regards to capital punishment, confiscatory taxation, etc.).
Regards,
No, we are not collectors and redistributors. Jesus condemned that system and never instituted it for Christians.
Yup... Caesar (as a state entity) can’t be baptized into Christ. Such a baptism would need to be based on voluntary belief.
This is as about as silly as asking the DMV to run a church.
Happily, salt and light CAN spill out from the church into Caesar’s realm. We see things like this happen in the Old Testament on the wake of saving miracles, although the response can be typically Caesar-ish (”Whoever blasphemes this God will have his house destroyed, etc.”) We have a BIT more enlightened Caesar and church to work with here, though the gap between Caesar and barbarism is rapidly closing. One thing the answer can never look like is the church taking over Caesar duties. Been there, done that, have the lack of biblical direction and the historical carnage to show for it.