Certainly Jesus did not stand for the dishonesty of the money changers, but he did say that Christians should pay due respect to the secular authority. He rallied His people against corruption, not against organized government in general. Now mind you, I’m sure Sierra Leone’s government is loaded with corruption, and the use of the verse supporting tax collection is manipulative, but in my mind, it is no more manipulative than the right wing Christian leaders in that country crying ultimate heresy to their congregation. Shut up, pay what taxes are due by just law, and hope that the government doesn’t say that Christian fathers should be willing to sacifice their first-born sons to show fealty to whatever type of Il Duce (individual or group) who sits on the proverbial throne there. THAT would be wrong.
Not So Fast 
Certainly Jesus did not stand for the dishonesty of the money changers, but he did say that Christians should pay due respect to the secular authority. He rallied His people against corruption, not against organized government in general. Now mind you, I’m sure Sierra Leone’s government is loaded with corruption, and the use of the verse supporting tax collection is manipulative, but in my mind, it is no more manipulative than the right wing Christian leaders in that country crying ultimate heresy to their congregation. Shut up, pay what taxes are due by just law, and hope that the government doesn’t say that Christian fathers should be willing to sacifice their first-born sons to show fealty to whatever type of Il Duce (individual or group) who sits on the proverbial throne there. THAT would be wrong.