Doing What You Can To Prove Your Point

DIG, IF YOU WILL, A PICTURE, of you, as a left wing liberal. A Bernie Sanders, Karl Marx, Fidel Castro socialist. Hold your nose if you have to. You can go back to being a true conservative in just a moment... What you want to do, in your imaginary status as a left wing loon, is justify your radical point of view any way you can. You want some authority figure, somebody with real clout, to back you up. You'll try anything, including the Bible. You, the staunch advocate of confiscatory punitive tax and spend big government liberal redistribution of wealth, you the fan of punishing the wealthy by taxing the hell out of them, punishing the producers, as the Christian conservatives often say, you the commie, thumbing through the Bible, looking.....Suddenly you see where Jesus said "render unto Caesar", and your pulse quickens. You read further that Jesus says: "sell whatsoever thou hast, and give unto the poor". Then you see the thing about a wealthy man trying to go through the eye of the needle and get into heaven, and, last but not least, "what benefits the man who gaineth the entire world and loses his soul in so doing?" As far as your concerned, that clinches it. And you'll have to admit, if you're looking for some authority figure to come along and offer support for your radical left wing politics and economics, you could do worse than Jesus, and, no matter how hard you might try to link Jesus's words with TEA Party Christianity, and no matter how hard to might wish to totally separate Jesus from the far left, you just can't entirely, somehow... Now, back in the real world with you as a right wing free market second amendment fundamentalist Christian - you have to admit - that indeed "render unto Caesar" does not exactly sound like TEA party politics. Right?