That's... almost always been true? That is true of most governments? I mean, throughout history, most taxation systems included payouts for the recruitment and training of someone who would be considered an agent of violent terror by someone else.
That's why it was such a big deal that Jesus broke bread with a tax collector (Nicodemus? Or was that Zachariah? One of them was really short?) - this was a guy collecting taxes from his family and neighbors, fellow Jews, for THE OCCUPYING INVASION FORCE that was the Romans. He was taking his community's money and funneling it back into their own oppression. And yet...
This is NOT new in our history.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/14306/was-there-a-deep-us-involvement-with-saddam-osama-and-gaddafi
And the CIA's many ventures down south before that, we've backed all sorts of tactics and engaged in them ourselves all over the place
Every modern day terror org was/is created by Western Intel agencies...change my mind
That's... almost always been true? That is true of most governments? I mean, throughout history, most taxation systems included payouts for the recruitment and training of someone who would be considered an agent of violent terror by someone else.
That's why it was such a big deal that Jesus broke bread with a tax collector (Nicodemus? Or was that Zachariah? One of them was really short?) - this was a guy collecting taxes from his family and neighbors, fellow Jews, for THE OCCUPYING INVASION FORCE that was the Romans. He was taking his community's money and funneling it back into their own oppression. And yet...
There's a defendable argument here in the courts to divorce ourselves from paying taxes, me thinks.