Thursday 7 October 2010

Comrade Isaiah - Part 1

I keep being told that Christian socialism is a theological oxymoron. These people spend time defending the acumination of asserts. However, Comrade Isaiah might disagree
Woe betide those who add house to house and join field to field, until everyone else is displaced, and you are left as sole inhabitants of the countryside.  In my hearing the Lord of Hosts made this solemn oath: “Great houses will be brought to ruin, five mansions left uninhabited. Five acres of vineyard will yield only a gallon and ten bushels of seed return only a peck” (Isaiah 5:8-10 - REB).
I wonder what that says about acumination private property?  I wounder how the religious right woud respond?