GOD, DEATH, AND TAXES

Benjamin Franklin once jokingly wrote that “in this world nothing is certain, but death and taxes.” In the context of my philosophical thinking on the necessity of the absolute authority of God by definition, I may paraphrase his famous quip by having this “metaphysical certitude” cover God as well, not with an intent of light-hearted irreverence, but in order to cement this fact’s importance in the most effective, proverbial form. Therefore, from now on, fiant “God, death, and taxes!”