“Taxing the people in order to perform a function that God did not assign to the state is called theft . . . If Jezebel had taken Naboth’s vineyard in the name of ‘social justice,’ or ‘land reform,’ that would not have altered the prophet’s view of it. Neither would it have helped if Jim Wallis sincerely thought that Naboth was a fat cat plantation owner. Maybe he was. How does that make it somebody else’s plantation now” (Empires of Dirt, p. 212).
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