Would Jesus Pay Taxes to Support War?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

How about an annual Peace Parade?

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

You are old, older than dirt. You remember when when wasn’t. You’ve seen it all, and most of it several times over.
Does it ever get old to you? The same patterns, the hurting one another, the aimlessness, the carelessness, the venial and mortal varieties of sin that appear and reappear. Do they test your patience? Or are you resigned to these reminders of human fallibility?
Perhaps you are more like the aged humans who delight in seeing the new expressions of life in their great-grand-children.
It does appear that experience teaches us to value new life, even with its imperfections. In time, the young might learn to respect their elders.
More that respect you, we worship you, the prime ancestor, the wise one, the great and grand mother-father of all life.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Good question. Does God want us to pay taxes to support Caesar’s wars? What do you think?”

[He didn’t say it like this, even if I think He could have.]

D. Blog: Crime in the City

ASHEVILLE – City police Tuesday charged a Leicester woman with robbing a man with a beer bottle.
Regina Felicia Davis, 23, is charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon, financial card theft and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. According to the arrest warrants, Davis struck a man in the head with a beer bottle. The man was taken to the hospital for his injuries.
Davis was released under a written promise to appear in court.

[There must be more to the story... I knew bottles of beer could be dangerous, but a weapon? Had she drunk what was in the bottle? If not, wasn't it a doubly dangerous weapon? Will she be required to pay for treatment of his serious injuries? Speaking of serious - how serious, if she was released?]