Rhetoric on taxes and religion

The deplorable rhetoric erroneously invoking Christianity to fit a takeover tax agenda is despicable. We are all created equal as spiritual beings with the same rights and value in God's eyes regardless of income or social status. That is the only way we are equal. Only Satan's influence causes a man to justify robbing from one to give to another out of political ambition for personal gain and to lust for ruling power over both. It is a sacrilege to misconstrue Jesus' words to make them fit a destructive socialist agenda -- one that would ultimately replace our freedom with a dictatorship as our sole provider, judge and king.

Jesus never coerced anyone like these Democrats trying to intimidate and manipulate America into submission to Marxism. The New Testament teaches we are to give of our means from an open, cheerful heart voluntarily, directly to the church, or to one another. Will "render unto Caesar" be invoked next? Out of context? Of course. But, oh how they despise and deny biblical words on many other moral topics, such as personal responsibility and "no one comes to the Heavenly Father, except through Jesus Christ." Or biblical words condemning deviant sexual lifestyles. These socialists have expelled God from our schools and the public square. They attack Christians for speaking political conservatism. For Democrats to suddenly "get religion" now only when it comes to taxes for political gain is outrageous. In vain do they spout as the oracles of God, the commandments of men.

JOHN McMILLEN, Sikeston, Mo.