George Monbiot has been writing in a similar vein:The Book of Trespass, by Nick Hayes, is massively researched but lightly delivered, a remarkable and truly radical work, loaded with resonant truths and stunningly illustrated by the author.
"Primitive accumulation."It shows how the great estates, from which we are excluded, were created by a combination of theft from the people of Britain (the enclosure of our commons) and theft from the people of other nations, as profits from the slave trade, colonial looting and much of the £30tn bled from India were invested into grand houses and miles of wall: blood money translated into neoclassical architecture.
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Trespassing should certainly not be a criminal offence
Peter May
Trespassing should certainly not be a criminal offence Peter May
ReplyDeleteThe Bible agrees to a certain extent since the poor could glean agricultural fields for their own family needs.
However, trespassing into someone's home at night could be met with death with the homeowner held blameless in that event.
People really should read the Bible. Contrary to what Tom says, the Bible is MEANT by God to be understandable by ordinary people.
“ the Bible is MEANT by God to be understandable by ordinary people.”
ReplyDeleteThen how do you explain this statement:
“ He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”. Mat 11:15
"Ordinary" in the sense of intelligence or even sub-ordinary as a lesson to the proud of what God can do.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it was those who were well taught by the Old Testament who could "hear" what Jesus was saying; i.e. those who "had" received even more.