• blankluck@lemm.ee
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    It actually is in favour of tax fraud painting the tax collectors as evil

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      Matthew 22:20,21: He said to them: “Whose image and inscription is this?” They said: “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them: “Pay back, therefore, Caesar’s things to Caesar, but God’s things to God.”

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      Tax collecting and tax paying are two different things.

      IRRC, tax collectors had a lot of power and not enough oversight.

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      Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get

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        The Pharisee paints the tax collector as evil, but the pharisee is the bad guy in this story. Literally the next two verses:

        13 But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to raise his eyes toward heaven, but was beating his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other one; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”