Render Unto Caesar

On this Sunday morning let's remember that St. Paul was a rug salesman named Saul of Tarsus until a bolt of lightning knocked him to the ground and turned him into a Christian. Like most major biblical events this one too is metaphorical. What really happened is that like a bolt out of the blue it occured to him that holy Hannah, there was money in this religion thing. St. Paul became the first fund raiser and PR guy in history, trooping around the countryside visiting Thessalonians, and Philippians and the like, and then writing them letters either thanking them for their money or asking for more. Little surprise he pissed off the Romans.