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July 3, 2007
Sermon for June 17, Eminent Domain
Old First
Reverend Daniel Meeter of the Old First Reformed Church in Park Slope continues to meditate on the laws of Moses, in which "private property was sacred as a gift from God."
When one king felt that these laws were a "disincentive to development," God didn't stop him from using eminent domain. But what happens to us as individuals and a society when we fail to apply "the values of the laws of God?"
Read the tale of King Ahab, where the "application to the Atlantic Yards is inescapable" and the name Jezebel finds a new meaning when she is cast in the role of the Empire State Development Corporation.
Posted by lumi at July 3, 2007 8:07 AM