From: Randall Parker 

In <38d4c32f{at}w3.nls.net>, the sagacious richhong{at}hawksci.com Richard
Hong perspicated:
> There is no historical evidence that they did.  But that's not the point.
> My whole argument in this thread is that economic injustice is due to
> disobedience to God.

But the disobedience that creates poverty comes more often from people who
don't work hard or who do foolish things with their own money.

>You raised questions about whether we should give back
> our gains periodically; I cited Lev 25 to demonstrate that in fact this is
> exactly what God instructed us to do.  That we didn't do it only bolsters my
> argument that economic injustice is a condition created by man out of
> rebellion against God's laws.

Rich,

If we did obey these foolish Bible instructions our economy would be far
smaller and poverty would be far more widespread than it is today.

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