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The 8th Commandment

6 March 2022 By David Trounce

The 8th Commandment - The Ten Commandments - Series

The eighth commandment, 'Thou shalt not steal" upholds the rights to private property since theft can only be theft if what you have stolen belongs to someone else. It also rules out collectivism and socialism as a means of forming a healthy society. What's mine is not … [Read more...] about The 8th Commandment

Filed Under: The Ten Commandments - Series Tagged With: Charity, Property, Theft

What’s Yours is Mine

24 January 2019 By David Trounce

Taxation as Fleecing - sermo humilis

The point of the biblical emphasis on God's ownership of the earth is that all property must be held in accordance with His commands. Property will always be owned and the commandment, "Thou shalt not steal", implies the right to private ownership. God's claim on the earth … [Read more...] about What’s Yours is Mine

Filed Under: Life in Christendom Tagged With: Government, Land, Money, Theft

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Thor's Oak

Around 723 AD, a missionary named Boniface entered Hesse in Germany. Upon finding a sacred tree named Thor’s Oak, he took an axe to it, cut it down and built a church. Many in the town, believing that the God of Boniface must be greater than Thor, left their paganism behind converted to Christianity.