>If a person is truly religious and wants to go to heaven, then the giveaway is not voluntary - it's mandatory. I don't have a problem with the government helping out as long as they don't get too far outside reality.
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Does this mean that God keeps score. So if I give away 50% of my money to the gov't so that they can do whatever it is they do with it, and my neighbor gives away nothing, I get a ticket to heaven and my neighbor doesn't?
I think you must think in spiritual terms, not the physical, when discussing the Bible.
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The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
– Mark Twain (1866)
