Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.

Needless to say I am like almost everyone else, I hate tax day. I understand there is a need to fund the essentials: protection (military, police, fire, and emergency services), some administration of these services, and what else is essential? I am convinced that we really don’t need a congress. Let’s send them home and pay them to go back to Washington only in emergency. Imagine the savings 535 times $175,000.00. plus office staffs, plus buildings, plus committee staffs. Is it really necessary that we build a bridge to nowhere in Alaska? Is it really necessary that we fund museums and art projects? Is it really necessary that we fund academic “scientific” studies like the one that asked “why do people kiss” that concluded that “kissing is pleasurable.” DUH!

The greatest thing the government can do for me is tax me only for the necessary. Imagine if you did your church budget the way the government spent your tax money. Do you think the senator from Iowa is ready to investigate that spending the way he is pursuing non-profits and church ministries?

I guess I fit the Obama profile, a religious guy that is bitter over government waste. The truth is if the church had been doing their jobs all these years, providing social services, providing education, and providing for the widows and widowers we wouldn’t be in the shape we are in. Enough complaining.

I am thankful that I live in a country that allows me to rant. I live where I am free to disagree with elected leaders without fear of reprisal. I am thankful that no religious zealot of any kind can order my life and I am allowed to live as I understand the directive of the Holy Spirit in my life. In spite of taxes I am thankful.