Re: Money is a tool. A Message to Redistributionists

I hope there will be no mass reverse emigration of Americans to Europe, when they are dispossessed from their land!

Michael
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: D. F. Siemens, Jr.
  To: pimvanmeurs@yahoo.com
  Cc: asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 6:36 PM
  Subject: Re: Money is a tool. A Message to Redistributionists

  Are you overlooking the basis of the jubilee? It required that the land revert to the family originally owning it at the conquest of the Holy Land. No subsequent immigrant had any claim to it. Do we apply that to the aboriginal "owners," who did not have private ownership? to the first settlers at Jamestown and Plymouth? to the pioneers led by Boone and his ilk? Where does this leave the Boston Irish and the Cleveland Poles, and all Afro-Americans? Note that it was not money that was returned, but real estate.
  Dave

  On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 20:58:58 -0800 (PST) Pim van Meurs <pimvanmeurs@yahoo.com> writes:
    How sad. The wealth gap is real and I wonder why Christians seem to be unwilling to apply the concept of Jubilee to rectify these inequities. Money and tools are hardly an analogy.

    So why do you love it Janice since I find few redeeming Christian aspects in the message, other than perhaps 'apologetics'
Received on Thu Mar 9 17:15:30 2006