• FreeBeard@slrpnk.net
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    22 hours ago

    One of the proposed reasons the Romans adopted Christianity was because the church would help collect taxes. For all of the middle ages the church would be one of 3 instances that “run” a state (estates). Taxes were a big part of that job.

    That means the answer to your question was just roughly 1700 years ago.