Christian Aid in the Service of Caesar

Christian Aid is an organization that takes around 20% of its money from governmental organizations.
Last year it sent out a ‘Tax Bus’ around the country to encourage people to pay their taxes with a smiley face and to let people know that we’re all in this together with our caring sharing rulers. They also let us know who is to blame  - the tax dodgers!
Christian Aid is supported by many churches, so I had assumed that it was a Christian organization.
I do recall Jesus Christ telling us to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, but I was not aware that Jesus was a cheer leader for the state.
Jesus was crucified by the Roman state. Many of his followers were persecuted and murdered by the state.
The state, then as now, had an army, an army that killed, maimed, raped and tortured, the only difference being that the Roman state did not bomb people.
In Roman times, like in the fourteenth century, people did not consider the state to be some kind of Big Mother. No doubt there were advantages to living under Roman rule, as there were no doubt advantages for the people of India living under the British Empire, but they were incidental. 
According to Christian Aid there is something called ‘tax justice’. More tax means more money to give to the world’s poor, helping them get an education and health services, supposedly.
Or perhaps the poor will receive the present of a humanitarian bomb?
Perhaps they will receive the gift of depleted uranium, along with its cancers and birth defects.
Perhaps the ‘aid’ will go to the aid of local elites. Perhaps our ‘aid’ will reward them for their co-operation.
Perhaps the ‘aid’ game will continue to corrupt and demoralize the recipients, just another form of patronage, undercutting local industry and agriculture, creating destitution where once there was hope.
The state was not Christian when Jesus was alive and it is not Christian now.
The State is a hierarchical, authoritarian structure based on violence.
Christianity is based on love and freedom.
Caesar is forever the enemy of love and freedom.