"Why should I pay for schools when I don't even have kids?"

Because you won't donate to charity, that's why. If there was a massive charity problem, where people were just donating so much money to charity we had nothing to do with it all, most of us could stop working.

But we don't have that problem, hence government services. I'm open to something else that doesn't lead to people hoarding their shit, but so far governments and taxation and social programs seem to be better than, at least, nothing, and certainly a damned sight better than charity.

"If we want to help people, we should rely on charity."

Yes, truly, until the woke socialist state took over, charity was solving all kinds of problems. You ever heard of the Great Depression? No you didn't, there was no such thing, because of all the fookin' charity.

It was the fucking Puritans, Mike. That's who you're thinking of. The Puritans. The ones who burned witches, Mike. They weren't the founding fathers. They were religious zealots that got kicked out for being assholes and ruining England. They weren't fleeing persecution. They were fleeing to a place without accountability so they could persecute.

That's the echo of history you're really yearning for.

Besides bans against murder and stealing, part of every code of law since the beginning of time, name how the remaining 8 Commandments are enforced by law. Coveting? Legal. Adultery? Legal. Having other gods? Legal. Bearing false witness... in a court of law, maybe. Making a graven image of things in Heaven? We can do that. Honoring father and mother? Required by law?

Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Have those things ever been laws? Is there a 'right to purity' that blockades court buildings, denying people the right to a divorce because Jesus said it's adultery?

Nope.

That said, "slaves, be obedient to your masters" is in the New Testament, and that horrible thing about an ear and an awl is in the OT, so if you're talking about slavery, yep, totally Judeo-Christian.

There's nothing worth celebrating there.

And this pervasive myth will be promoted by every fundy Christian nationalist until the end of time and it won't become more true for the repetition.