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Ammon Bundy: Bible Supports Militia's Seizure Of Federal Land

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Wednesday, 1/6/2016 1:50 pm

Yesterday on “The Liberty Roundtable” radio program, Ammon Bundy defended his seizure of a federal building in Oregon, claiming that the Bible supports his militia’s actions. He explained that the federal government is wrongly prohibiting economic development on the property he seized, insisting that God would rather have the land be developed: “We read in Genesis where God gives the earth to man, he did not give it to government, he gave it to man to care and to cultivate, and that means to take care of it and to use it. That is necessary and that is what the Lord has done.”

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[el_bryanto]

1. That's a belief I've encountered in Mormon Culture

It sort of ignores that the Government is made up of men who are trying to use the land appropriately, so as not to burn it out or waste it (through, say, overgrazing). (full disclosure, I am a Mormon myself).

Bryant

[L. Coyote]

7. Before the Ohio Company formed and they overthrew the King of England's laws:

Ben Franklin observed that rum should be regarded as the agent of Providence
"to extripate these savages in order to make room for the cultivators of the earth."

Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri:
"the whites should supplant the indian because Whites use the land according to the intentions of the Creator."

[L. Coyote]

8. And long before that even:

1637 - Following the burning of the Pequots by the Puritans Cotton Mather expressed gratefulness to the Lord that they had
"sent 600 heathen souls to hell."

1644 - Order from General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay:
"noe Indian shall come att any towne or howse of the English uppon the Lords day, except to attend the public meetings; neither shall they come att any English howse uppon any other day in the week, but shall first knocke att the dore, and after leave given, yo come in..."

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[2naSalit]

2. ...

jeebus H curist in a soggy cracker!

[lame54]

3. isn't taking care of the land the purpose of a reserve?

[Archae]

4. Two words...

"Wise use."

Same thing as Bundy and his brainwashed brood.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. Oh gawd

[Bluenorthwest]

6. It's not crazy, the 'religion' is the insulation from harm, and it distracts from the cold big money

interests of the LDS Church and these often wealthy interstate 'ranching interests'.