Anti-government sentiment, paying taxes and the rich.

The United States government is, for the most part, democratically elected by a population of people who are for the most part Christian....around 75-80% according to various websites and atlases.

Also, almost all the governments of Europe with the exception of a country or two in the Balkans are majority Christian and are democratic.....for the most part.

The votes of the people in these countries, I believe, are the manifestation of the will of Jesus Christ, if truly they are Christians as they claim to be.....and who can know this for sure, but God?.....the statistics tell us this is so.

Also the U.N. is organization made up of 192 member states, 119 of which, last time I checked.....if I counted accurately.....are majority Christian and most of the countries in the U.N. are democratic and freely participate in the U.N.....a democratic institution.

The primary goal of the U.N. is to bring aid to refugees, humane treatment and rights to women, vaccines and education for impoverished children, relief for victims of natural disasters, sustainable farming and environmental practices to countries who want to preserve their natural resources, justice to the oppressed and human rights to as many people as possible regardless of religion, race, sex or nationality.....how is this evil?

The Christian bible repeatedly tells us that governments are, for the most part good, and even Jesus paid taxes to the Roman government.....not exactly a Christian democracy.

Why, even chimpanzees have government.....a couple of dominant chimps generally run the show with subordinates that follow their lead.....this tells us that government is a natural thing and not an artificial construct forced upon people by man's degeneracy as many would imply or lead us to believe.

Governments, when run properly, bring order and justice, maintain civility and foster prosperity by regulating the rich and powerful who may think that their wealth and power is of their own doing and not a gift from God given to them so that they can help their fellow men, women and children.....their neigbors.....their fellow citizens.

Some wealthy individuals may become arrogant and mistreat the workers under their care through poor pay, hazardous working conditions, polluting the water, land and air and then bad mouthing the government of the United States, who tries to heal these wounds inflicted on the poor, the elderly, children and the earth by arrogant rich men who do not fear God. 

For the government to be able to heal these wounds we need to use tax resources.....the bigger the wound inflicted on the poor, on the disabled, on women, on children, on the elderly and on the earth from rich, callous men who don't fear God.....the more tax resources are required for the government to bring healing, civility, humanity and order and to heal these wounds.

Is the federal government of the United States which is trillions of dollars in debt.....rich?.....obviously being trillions of dollars in debt would not be defined as being rich by anyone.....no, surely the United States government is poor.....so if Jesus says to give to the poor.....how is paying taxes to the impoverished/massively indebted federal, state and local Christian and democratic governments of the United States...a bad thing?.....as the wealthy here in the U.S. try to convince us through various media outlets.

When the rich are asked to pay more taxes to restore the funding of the government of the United States, which has been stripped of resources and buried in debt because of massive tax cuts, tax shelters, recession and bloated military spending.....some of the rich call this evil and call for overthrow of those in power and threaten to leave the country and go somewhere "better".....where taxes are lower.....where there is less government and the minority rich have free reign to do as they please, such as exploit the poor and destroy the earth with pollutants and when neighborhoods fall into ruin and crime is rampant they lobby for harsher laws to lock up the unruly poor who irritate them with their unseemly behavior.....and some may attempt to profit off their incarceration.

These things surely are not right and those who slander government through gross distortions and misrepresentation and wish for the downfall of the United States or repeatedly threaten to move to different states or to a different country with their riches in order to force the U.S. government and it's states.....to further lower taxes will surely reap what they sow.....surely this practice and others will lead to further bankrupting of the U.S. government and the bankrupting of other governments worldwide and reeks of extortion.

I don't wish to be under corporate rule but under democratic government rule. I also don't wish to live in a world where governments are collapsing to satisfy the desire of the rich to be tax free and "unburdened" by reasonable government regulation which in reality brings stability to the worlds economies and humanity to civilization.....not oppression and poverty as some of the rich might lead you to believe.

Who is the greatest supporter of the poor, the elderly, the disabled, the sick, prisoners and children on earth.....next to the churches.....surely it's the democratic governments of the world and in the United States our government is elected by a majority Christian population.

It is also written in Proverbs 22:16 of the Christian bible:

"He that opresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to want."

Is this a lie?.....is the bible of Christianity a book of lies?

Jesus himself said to his disciples....."Verily I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven"

Jesus also said....."woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation."

These statements and many others are clear warning and admonition for the rich to exercise wisdom from God and to love your neighbors as yourself.....use the money you been given for good and to help bring about justice, healing and fairness in the country where you live and to all nations.

Pay your fair share of taxes for after you've paid your millions you still have millions left to build mansions and buy luxury cars and boats if that's what you freely choose to do, but the lower classes and the poor after they have paid their taxes barely have enough to pay their rent and feed their children.

Give to the churches, give to the poor.

Revelation 18:23 of the King James Version of the Christian bible states:

"For thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived"  

Revelation 11:18:

"And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come,
And the time of the dead that they should be judged,
And that you should reward your servants the prophets and the saints,
And those who fear your name small and great,
AND SHOULD DESTROY THOSE WHO DESTROY THE EARTH"

"Maybe we should respect the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States and heed their counsel and other governmental agencies worldwide, especially Christian/democratic governments which are working to protect the earth from annihilation by the careless rich who are capable through their riches and power of doing further largescale damage to the already devastated earth. 

The United States government obviously is not a perfect or all good organization for even Jesus said that none is good but God.....but on a relative scale of human institutions and human organizations the United States government has been a source for much goodwill in the world and is still striving for goodness and is desperately trying to recover resources, tax money and find ethical/moral people to allow us to climb out of debt and help the poor and all citizens of our country and other nations.....rich and poor to have better lives and strive for freedom, democracy and just and fair capitalism that works and brings prosperity and sustainable economies to all people as much as this is possible in this present world.

Surely we should speak of our democratic Christian nation and it's government with respect and humility and when we criticize our leaders to do so with deference and accuracy not hubris and hyperbole based on innuendo and misrepresentations of truth and character.

We should also not use the unjust behavior or speech of others to justify our own unjust behavior or speech.

Revelation 13:10 of the King James Bible states:

"He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity.
He that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword,
Here is the patience and faith of the saints."

"The sword is the words that come out of our mouth.....when we heed these warnings we are blessed.

We the undersigned agree with the sentiments of this author.