Christianity And the Social Rage

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III RELIGION AND TAXATION IT will doubtless be received with something like incredulity to be told that there is any religion in taxation but reflection will show that there is a connection between these things, which at first glance seem so unlikely to have any relation which is of the greatest possible importance both to the subject of religion and also to that of taxation. For let it be understood at the outset that a tax is itself the symbol of some sort of collectivism. Even when it takes the crudest and least attractive form of brute tribute, gathered by force, it nevertheless emphasizes a certain sort of relationship between the spoiler and the spoiled. For the despoiler who once enriches himself at the expense of some one else has within him the natural tendency to repeat the process and is