Priest in Britain Advances DNC & Socialist Ideology When He Advises Congregation to Shoplift

Fox News Report: A priest in Britain is under fire Monday for advising his congregation to shoplift in tough economic times, the Daily Mail reports.

Father Tim Jones, a 41-year-old clergyman at St. Lawrence Church in York, England, said that shoplifting — rather than prostitution or burglary — is sometimes the best option for poor people struggling to make ends meet, according to the Web site.

"My advice as a Christian priest is to shoplift," Jones reportedly told churchgoers during his Sunday sermon. "I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good thing, or because I think it is harmless, for it is neither."

"I would ask that they do not steal from small family businesses, but from large national businesses — knowing that the costs are ultimately passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices," he continued.

"I would ask them not to take any more than they need, for any longer than they need ... My advice does not contradict the Bible's eighth commandment because God's love for the poor and despised outweighs the property rights of the rich."

Jones' sermon, meanwhile, has been blasted by police, the British Retail Consortium and a local MP who all say that shoplifting is a crime regardless of circumstances.

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The Eighth Commandment is not a suggestion, it is God COMMANDING that humanity not engage in theft. God's edict to us that we are not to steal is quite clear. His will for us is that we are not to take from others that which does not belong to us. If God thought theft and stealing was not such a big deal, then there would not be an 8th Commandment.

Father Tim Jones' cavalier treatment of the 8th Commandment teaches people that the breaking of a law, when it serves their own self interest, is perfectly acceptable. Father Jones is teaching people that if it is OK to break God's laws and prohibitions, this in turn gives people the belief that if they are free to break God's laws, which then makes it's justifiable to break man's laws.

We are seeing the teaching and advancement of situational ethics from a cleric who claims to be a representative of Christ and the Christian church. He does not teach absolutes or in black and white. He teaches that lines and boundaries can be diluted, bent and changed when it makes achieving ones own agenda convenient. While doing this, Father Jones is also teaching class warfare and collectivist ideologies.

Father Jones is encouraging the breaking of laws which further contribute to the breakdown of society and civilization. He advocates an entitlement mindset where it is OK to 'stick it to the man', instead of encouraging civility, hard work and self reliance, Father Jones teaches that it is OK to hijack the fruits of the labor of someone else.

The good father is teaching his flock what the world's liberals, socialists, progressives and what the American democrat already does in practice; Take from those who work to earn and who have something. Then, redistribute those earnings and properties to those who believe they are entitled to that which they themselves have failed to earn. The good Father is simply applying these principles on a personal level.