45 - Divine Property
Channel: Halting Toward Zion
Date: 2020-11-09

"Thou Shalt Not Steal" necessitates the concept of property, so we'll be lobbing some critiques at socialism today. But because we're equal-opportunity killjoys, we'll start with the hyper-individualism of Ayn Rand and her misconceptions regarding property, and in the middle of our criticism sandwich we'll spread some delicious Biblical truth.

This Episode Features: Ayn Rand vs. John Calvin; My Boots, My Dog, And My Wife; Human So-Called Rights And Values; Republicanism And Democratic...ness; The Cattle On A Thousand Hills; Questions Of Eminent Domain; Protestants Love Socialist Reforms!; Can't Stop The Signal; and A Tower So Ivory You Can't Look At It In Direct Sunlight.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/2GOEwWq-htz-45

Links:
The Virtue of Selfishness - Ayn Rand: https://amzn.to/3laG1gj
Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin: https://amzn.to/3n2nwLQ
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3mYS0hJ
2 Samuel 24: https://www.esv.org/2+Samuel+24/
1 Kings 21: https://www.esv.org/1+Kings+21/
Ezekiel 46: https://www.esv.org/Ezekiel+46/
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: https://amzn.to/3eBFpOl
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: https://amzn.to/2If9eZb
Ephesians 4: https://www.esv.org/Ephesians+4/
James 1: https://www.esv.org/James+1/

Recos:
Cheese Curds
My Family and Other Animals (2005): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482552/
The Black Book of Communism - Jean-Louis Panne, et al.: https://amzn.to/2GBEjFM
True Grit - Charles Portis: https://amzn.to/2I8P7M5