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Bethany Blankley  Jesus, Taxes and Proof-Texting  Posted:
09/07/2012 4:11 pm  Here's the problem with liberals like Erika
Christakis: they misuse Christian Scripture for their own
political purposes, which is exactly what Jesus was against. She
recently argued in TIME magazine that Republican Vice
Presidential nominee Paul Ryan is "un-Christian" because of his
budget proposal. Her complete distortion of Jesus' Sermon on the
Mount in Matthew 5 not only creates a gross misrepresentation of
Jesus' teaching but it exemplifies the contempt of the Left for
the Judeo-Christian ethic when a Christian is running for
office.  In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus was not making a
statement about civil government or the burden of taxation upon
the people of Israel. He was speaking to his disciples and
encouraging them to go the extra mile in Christian sacrificial
love, which is certainly not the basis of governmental taxation.
Let me set the record straight: The