Re: [asa] Creation Care Magazine

At 05:48 PM 1/4/2008, j burg wrote:

>Janice wrote: "who knows that one of the "good things" they hate is
>private individual property rights."
>
>The Mexican statesman Colisimo once said: "We don't own land. We
>just lease it from our grandchildren." I always thought that was a
>good quote. That and similar statements got him assassinated, by the
>way. ~ Burgy

@ Let's see how that platitude -- I mean, "qood quote" works here:

Acts 5: Barnabas sells a piece of property he owns and voluntarily
gave all the money to the Apostles. Ananias and Saphira decided to
do the same - except they sold a property ...and lied about how much
they had been paid. Peter said, 'Ananias, why has Satan filled your
heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and pretend that you were giving all
the money you got from the sale to the church?... While it remained,
was it not your own? .."

Ananias and Saphira said, no it was not our own .. you know that we
don't really own the land, we just lease it from our
grandchildren. After all, we agree with the French socialist
Proudhon who said, "Property is theft."

~ Janice

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Received on Tue Jan 15 13:01:01 2008