To: EsclavoDeCristo
He would tax nothing! (See the tax collecters he overturned their tables for)
He would allow private citizens to care for each other.
If charity is a religeous act and there is supposedly a seperation of church and state, then shouldn't charity be eliminated from the government functions?
7 posted on
09/30/2003 8:05:28 AM PDT by
CSM
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To: CSM
he overturned the money changers' tables. (private businessmen who changed foreign currencies so pilgrims could purchase sacrificial animals). he ate with tax collectors (despised by the Jews as traitors working for the occupying Romans).
Mrs VS
To: CSM
He would tax nothing! (See the tax collecters he overturned their tables for) That was the money changers not the tax collecters.
To the tax collectors He said,"Follow me."
21 posted on
09/30/2003 11:09:16 AM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Been there. Done that. Got the T-Shirt. Sold it on e-bay.)
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