On 19/12/2002 2:51 PM, "Ian Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "andie nachgeborenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Does it call for driving the moneylenders out of the temple, giving > all that you have the poor and following Him, while (of course) > rendering under Caesar what is Caesar's? jks > > > ======================= > > Deuteronomy 8: "When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses > and live in them, and when your herds and flocks have multiplied, and > your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, > Do not say to yourself, 'My power and the might of my own hand have > gotten me this wealth.'" > > For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his servants and > entrusted his property to them. (Mark 13:34) > > There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug > a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants > and went to another country. (Matthew 21:33) > > All along the watchtower, princes kept the view. While all the women > came and went, barefoot servants, too. (Bob Dylan) > > St. Ambrose: "You are not making a gift of your possessions to the poor > person. You are handing over to him what is his. For what has been given > in common for the use of all...you have arrogated to yourself.... Thus > private property does not constitute for anyone an absolute right." > > > "When we administer any necessities to the poor, we give them their own; we do not bestow our goods upon them. We do not fulfill the works of mercy; we discharge the debt of justice . . . what is given to us by a common God is only rightly used when those who have received it use it in common." -- St. Gregory the Great "Nature produced common property. Robbery made private property." -- St. Ambrose "This was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride of wealth and food in plenty, comfort and ease, and yet she never helped the poor and the wretched." -- Ezekiel 16:49 I am sure you can find the contradictions of these somewhere... so why not join the Happy Free Lunch Apostolic Logical Atomist Church of St. Bertrand Russel! With the Principia in one hand and the Christian Cannon in the other, anything goes! Thiago Oppermann ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: www-mail.usyd.edu.au
