How to lose friends and alienate yourself 

 Preach the parable of Jesus and the tax collector...lol 

 Jesus said tax collectors are mentally ill,  and should quit:
https://peakd.com/religion/@creatr/sermons-you-ll-never-hear-in-church-tax-collectors-are-mentally-ill-and-ought-to-quit-jesus-christ 

 no actually those are the words of the author of the article.
Jesus words exactly were:  

“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”"

It says so right there in the article.
But the author tries to twist them  with his own interpretation lol

 

 Who, then, was Jesus applying his words to? In the context of the biblical story, who is Jesus pointing to as being sick, and who as being "righteous?" How do you interpret his words?🤔 

 its a metaphor.
He is comparing sinners to the sick and himself to a doctor.
 

 Exactly; Who, then, in this historical Bible account, are the sick sinners that need his doctoring? 

 The tax collectors.  But he is not calling them mentally ill.  He is calling them spiritually ill.

Big difference.  Often enough the mentally ill cannot control their compulsions.   Sinners can, we just dont WANT to.... 

 Debatable, but now at least I understand your point.👍

I would maintain that living in denial of the reality that tax collection is immoral (because it is theft) is clearly a form of insanity. 

 I guess some are in denial.
The others are simply ignorant.
Ignorance of life is the opposite of enlightenment. 

 that problem will stay theirs

theirs - theIRS - the IRS

fak 

 There are people out there with SERIOUS issues like I would bet satoshis that there are some individuals PROUD of the fact they work for the IRS and are like, “I made it, mom!” 

 well

let's say you come from full poverty and are born with your parents being immigrants

getting to the irs would be actually making it for them 

 Definitely. We’ve been brainwashed into being “used to” their consistent wrongdoings 

 Virtually ALL IRS employees go by psedonyms. Most of them are violating citizen rights, and would be personally subject to lawsuits for acting "under color of law."😠😡🤬 

 I know one who worked for our ATO for and is very proud of it. She now works on the other side, so i can still be her friend :D 

 Probably doesn't work well for a date