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What if you are underpaid and there are no other jons you can do? Is that fair? No!

Enough to live on at least.

What if the farmer pays you only $2 an hour for your work? What if you 'agree' this because there are no peach-picking jobs which pay any higher wages? What if the reason for this is that the locak farmers have clubbed together to form a wage-fixing cartel? It is, to use your word...

Can you guarantee that the wage will be fair, though?

Amos is particularly ‘anti-rich’, attacking their lifestyles and their abuse of the poor, together with injustice and judicial bribery (Amos 2:6-7; 3:15; 5:7; 5:12-13; 6:4-5). This is unacceptable to God (Amos 5:21-24). Micah is equally critical: the rich appropriate others’ property and destroy...

Just a brief comment on what you've put as I have clients due in shortly. Concerning the difference in meaning of the use of ekklesia in Matthew's Gospel by Jesus -v- His use of it in Rev., I think that's easily explained by my earlier comment about Hebrew/ Aramaic -v- Greek-speaking worlds...

Darby was a schismatic and heretic: why should I pay any attention to his 'translation'? They are mistaken as to the usage of the term qahal.

So, Peter didn't call purgatory a 'damnable heresy' then. Thanks for the retraction. Here you are pushing at an open door: as a non-Catholic I have no truck with indulgences either. Official promulgation of the Assumption as dogma does not equate to belief or practice. I personally do not...

Total sequitur actually as you need to ask yourself what the term would have meant to eg: the Apostles when Jesus said to them in Matt 16:18, "I will build my ekklesia" (notice Jesus uses it in the singular; He doesn't say ekklesiai); the term would immediately have connected them to the...

What about enjoying the fruit of someone else's labour?

Ekklesia is also used in the LXX to translate the Hebrew qahal which is used to mean the whole community of Israel. Thus the Church (singular) is the new Israel (singular).

Depends which period of Israel's history is used as your yardstick. Property rights were limited under the Law eg: by the year of jubilee. If I may quote from one of our ministers, Robin Gamblin: [1] Gamblin, "The Irrelevant Church"., p.73. There's the potential for 'moral theft' in both...

And that means that corporations don't control the political-governmental system how, exactly? No party or candidate is going to commit electoral suicide by promising to abandon corporate welfare!

In theory I would agree with you. In practice however that has been tried and found to be wanting; it was one of the reasons the Welfare State was set up in this country (the UK) after the Beveridge Report (although quite what old William would have made of his creation today, particularly with...

Again, an observation and therefore evidently demonstrable. I'm not sure therefore what definition of the word 'proof' you are seeking to promulgate here...?

An investment banker, an Arizona voter and a Mexican immigrant are all sitting round a table on which there are 12 cookies. The banker takes 11, nudges the voter and points to the immigrant saying "I'd watch him - he's after your cookie."

It's a simple observation. And for the record I don't feel terribly controlled by my government. I am grateful for the fact that I live in a country where if one of my children injures him/herself, s/he can get free treatment without me having to worry about medical bills or insurance premiums...

So, to paraphrase Chesterton, what you're saying is not that Austrian economics has been tried and found wanting but that it has been found difficult and left untried? Hmmm....not sure I share that rosy view. The other point is that such a system inevitably creates winners and losers and yet...

Wow! Peter called Purgatory a 'damnable heresy'? Chapter and verse, please. Maybe not 'always believed' but believed for many mnay centuries prior to it being proclaimed as dogma in 1950. Again, please get your facts right before posting. An impartial observer could say and ask the same of...

But it was the failure of the Austrian school (boom and bust cycles culminating in the Great Depression) that led to Keynesian-style interventionism in the first place.