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To: nmh
The reason Marry and Joseph went back to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus is because there was a census going on and this was the birth place of Joseph. That is why they went to Bethlehem!

Would you believe I have been so busy since I first posted here, that I have only come on here sporadically, trying to close out windows in order to shut this whole mess down to reboot. I usually get sidetracked. I just opened this a few minutes ago and didn't reply just then because I was on a mission to see if I could find the government's definition of 'State', and lo and behold, ran right into this:

"...Taxation has always been big business, the biggest business of government. Hebrew complaints about the "oppression" of the Egyptian pharaohs seem to have been chiefly about the taxes imposed on them, which often amounted to, and were hard to separate from, slavery. (The Egyptians were cruel taxers, even sending scribes into every home to make sure people weren't preparing their food with untaxed cooking oil!) Sometimes we hear of taxation so casually that we hardly notice it, as in the Gospel accounts of Joseph and Mary going to Bethlehem to submit to a great Roman tax census....." From THE LAW and TAXATION By Joe Sobran

Funny coincidence!

We still have our tree up. Since we didn't put it up until a day or two before Christmas, I think we might keep it up until the needles fall. Our own little protest against all the little antichrists in our society. We don't appear to be the only ones in the neighborhood, either. I've seen quite a few others that still have their trees up as well.

Have a happy and blessed new year.

56 posted on 01/17/2004 3:20:03 PM PST by Ethan_Allen (Gen. 32:24-32 'man'=Jesus http://www.preteristarchive.com/Jesus_is_Israel/index.html)
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To: Ethan_Allen
Oh, I can believe it ... we did the opposite. We put the tree up a few days before Christmas and immediately after Christmas took it down. We had no room for one of my daughter's game boards. It's that headstrom 10 in 1 board game.

Thank you for pointing out the tax article. I will read it. I didn't know the Egyptians were as tax crazy as us. Well, people are people ... we really aren't different from those in Biblical times - still doing the same things ... .

I wish you a very Happy New Year and hope your Christmas was wonderful. Wouldn't it be grand if this was the year He comes!
58 posted on 01/18/2004 8:42:46 AM PST by nmh
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To: Ethan_Allen
Frederic Bastiat, The Law, is an old favorite. Great read. I read him a long time ago and have him sitting on my bookshelf. This one - Charles Adams's 1993 book FOR GOOD AND EVIL: THE IMPACT OF TAXES ON THE COURSE OF CIVILIZATION I am not familiar with but will get it. That looks interesting. Thank!
59 posted on 01/18/2004 8:49:40 AM PST by nmh
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