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165* entail violence and cruelty.:) But the true word of God says, "The earth is the Lord's and its fulness, that is, its mountains, and valleys, and all regions."God is the only rightful ruler of this earth.

(:And what title has the nobility to the land and people? It got it by tricks.:) Who is not God's, has no right to possess or to hold anything that belongs to God, unless he has taken possession of it illegally and by violence. Thus, contrary to the divine law, our fathers bought and established illegal claims for us and this is our natural heritage: poverty and shame and death, and after that hell. (:Shame, trickery, falsehood, cruelty these are the true signs of our coats-of-arms. But God shall regard all these unlawful property holders as traitors of the kingdom of God:)

And if you who are heavy and round with fat object, saying, "Our fathers have bought these people and those manors for our inheritance," then, indeed, they made an evil business and an expensive bargain! For who has the right to buy people, to enslave them and to treat them with indignities as if they were cattle led to slaughter? You prefer dogs to people whom you cuss, despise, beat, from whom you extort taxes and for whom you Psalm 24:1.