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May 11, 2009

Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us ...

Does this mean that we ought to permit others to trespass against us in a systematic way, in exchange for forgiveness of our own trespasses against other individuals? 

Does it mean we ought not to act to end structural trespassing against the basic rights of others: the right to one's fair share of the world's natural resources, including access to land on which to labor?

I wonder how enslaved people viewed this prayer in 18th and 19th century America.

Posted on May 11, 2009 at 05:17 PM in commons, connect the dots, cui bono?, economic justice, economic rent, ending poverty, income concentration, land includes, land, labor and capital, landed gentry, Landlord's Prayer, landlordism, little people pay taxes, location, location, location, monopoly -- not the game, natural resource revenues, natural resources, oil, playing by the rules, poverty machine, poverty's cause, privilege, sharecropping, user fees, wealth distribution or concentration |

Tags: economic justice, Lord's Prayer, poverty machine, social justice, structural causes of poverty

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