"Jesus offered a subtle declaration with his truism. Caesar represented statism. Nowhere in history has a statist organization of people — whether an emperor, a dictator, a king, an oligarchy, constitutional republic, or a democracy — ever obtained title to property without violating the fundamental rule of do not trespass. All statists steal. Thus, Jesus, by uttering a truism, allowed people to believe whatever they wanted to believe. Yet, Jesus had covertly declared (to those who would listen) that Caesar had no legitimacy, that Caesar never had obtained property in a lawful manner. All that Caesar claimed to own was actually the rightful property stolen from other people. Thus, to declare that people should render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s was another way of declaring that Caesar lawfully owned nothing, thus nothing was due to Caesar. At best, that Caesar’s picture was on the coin only meant that Caesar could claim ownership of the coin and that is all. Caesar otherwise had no standing to claim any other property. Jesus did not declare that people should pay taxes. Jesus declared the opposite. He declared that Caesar had no legitimate standing and nobody owed Caesar anything."
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:32:11 +0000
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