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Last week a friend of mine found out that his local Council would charge between $250 and $500 (each) for him to clear some trees from his land. This fee was cutely termed a carbon offset! Note that the council does not remove the trees, but charges the land owner (?) a carbon offset to grant him permission to remove his trees off his land. This is simply governmental absurdity. Or is it? The underlying question is that of sovereignty and ownership. In other words, whose land is it? The owner's or the government's/council's? Scripture tells us that the sovereign Triune God owns all of His creation, the earth and its fullness ( Psalm 24:1-10). All land therefore belongs ultimately to God. He is the sovereign and has given us to be the stewards of His creation ( Genesis 1:28). Within this stewardship is the idea of private property. In fact it is an important component of the Ten Words, "thou shalt not steal" ( Exodus 20:15). Being able to steal something presupposes that the property (money, land, goods, services etc) actually and fully belonged to another person or entity in a private sense. Scripturally, if I purchase a property that property should entirely and privately belong to me, a steward under the sovereign ownership of God.

However, private property is ultimately non existent within the socialist/communist philosophy. Australia is truly quite far down this Socialist ideal. According to Marx and Engels land owners simply look after the land on behalf of the state (government) and her people! The state is the sovereign unto whom we ought to bow the knee and pay homage. Dear reader please think through the issues, we are to give unto Caesar that which belongs to him. Does our land, money, children's education, health and welfare, agricultural activities (etc) actually belong to the government? Do we democratically elect sovereigns every four years? 

Keep reading to enjoy a humorous Tim Hawkins video on government control, it is just as true for Australia.

First, let me remind you of the intent behind the socialist agenda (whether they be social democrats or hard-line communists or somewhere in between). It is expressed and hidden in numerous and sophisticated ways today, but the heart of socialism has not changed since Marx & Engels’ Manifesto of the Communist Party. Without employing rhetoric or trying to paint this position in the worst possible light what is the socialist agenda? In their own words (i.e. Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto - p.26), a well developed communist (socialist) society has the following top ten features:
 

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools."

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Keywords : Worldviews, Ethics, Godly government, Ethics, God and government, Christian Law, God and politics

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