The Morally Bankrupt Theology of Forced Redistribution
On Wednesday of this week, a Georgia family who had just lost their home of more than 20 years to foreclosure also lost almost everything else they owned. Not to a fire or a storm, but to Barack Obama’s theology of redistribution.
by Curtis Coleman, Contributing Author: A family in Woodstock, Georgia had lost their home of 20 years to foreclosure, so – like a lot of folks do – they decided to have a yard sale of the things they didn’t want to move. Except they decided to give away those items. So they put an ad on craigslist about their free yard sale that would begin at 10:00 a.m. on this past Wednesday.
People arrived well before 10:00 a.m., and by the time the owners arrived there from work to supervise the giveaway, their home was ransacked and ravaged. Almost everything inside was gone. Michael Vercher, the homeowner, said, “They came in and just tore the place up.”
And he couldn’t stop them. They took family keepsakes, all their clothes and shoes – everything but a few books left scattered across the carpet.
Scenes like this are the inevitable result of a culture that subscribes to the theology of the forced redistribution of wealth. Charity is a virtue. Stealing is not. The liberal’s theology of the forced redistribution of wealth stands in stark contrast to the “loving one’s neighbor as one loves himself” theology that Jesus taught. And this Georgia scene dramatically illustrates that difference. There was no loving one’s neighbor in this landscape. But there certainly was the redistribution of wealth.
“We don’t have much and now we have even less. You’d like to think there’s good people. I mean, I hope they would have a good enough heart to bring our stuff back,” Michael Vercher said. Me too Michael. Me too.
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Curtis Coleman is the President, Curtis Coleman's Institute for Constitutional Policy and contributing author to the ARRA News Service.
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by Curtis Coleman, Contributing Author: A family in Woodstock, Georgia had lost their home of 20 years to foreclosure, so – like a lot of folks do – they decided to have a yard sale of the things they didn’t want to move. Except they decided to give away those items. So they put an ad on craigslist about their free yard sale that would begin at 10:00 a.m. on this past Wednesday.
People arrived well before 10:00 a.m., and by the time the owners arrived there from work to supervise the giveaway, their home was ransacked and ravaged. Almost everything inside was gone. Michael Vercher, the homeowner, said, “They came in and just tore the place up.”
And he couldn’t stop them. They took family keepsakes, all their clothes and shoes – everything but a few books left scattered across the carpet.
Scenes like this are the inevitable result of a culture that subscribes to the theology of the forced redistribution of wealth. Charity is a virtue. Stealing is not. The liberal’s theology of the forced redistribution of wealth stands in stark contrast to the “loving one’s neighbor as one loves himself” theology that Jesus taught. And this Georgia scene dramatically illustrates that difference. There was no loving one’s neighbor in this landscape. But there certainly was the redistribution of wealth.
“We don’t have much and now we have even less. You’d like to think there’s good people. I mean, I hope they would have a good enough heart to bring our stuff back,” Michael Vercher said. Me too Michael. Me too.
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Curtis Coleman is the President, Curtis Coleman's Institute for Constitutional Policy and contributing author to the ARRA News Service.
Tags: Tags: charity, foreclosure, Michael Vercher, redistribution, redistribution of wealth, Curtis Coleman, American Culture, Coleman Commentary Podcasts, Socialism To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
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