Back in Jesus' day, Palestine was occupied by the Romans and the job of collecting taxes was — to use a 20th-century word to describe a 1st century practice — outsourced to locals rather than managed themselves. As BBC News explains, these tac collectors didn't receive a salary but rather were expected to take some extra from their victims as their payment.
This was problematic for two reasons. First, Jews who engaged in tax collection -– like Zacchaeus –- were seen as traitors, effectively impoverishing their own people for the sake of an occupying foreign government. Read More...
All 50 DC Comics Movies Ranked Worst to Best Though DC comic books yielded beloved big-screen adaptations decades before the competition at Marvel, corporate decisionmakers have failed so far to establish a satisfying “cinematic universe” (ugh) the way the other guys have. Judging the merits of one DC movie against the rest is more like judging individual creative works than ranking contemporary Marvel movies, […]
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Celebrated Name: JWoww Real Name/Full Name: Jennifer Lynn Farley Gender: Female Age: 38 years old Birth Date: 27 February 1986 Birth Place: East Greenbush, New York, United States Nationality: American Height: 1.7 m Weight: 58 kg Sexual Orientation: Straight Marital Status: Divorced Husband/Spouse
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