Technically you could so long as you add rather than purely subtract value.
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Yeah, hypothetically it could be possible. Practically speaking, however, it's never going to likely ever happen even once.
Plenty of small landlords will rent out their homes at no profit margin, just enough to make mortgage payments and perform routine maintenance. It's the equity and inflation-resistant value retention they're banking on.
I mean... not at these prices...
Sure you could justify it. There are plenty of biblical verses backing up bondage, slavery, and debt coercion.
Is there a bible verse backing that up? First thing that comes to mind is "sell all you have and give to the poor" but not sure if there are others
Long but based. Matthew 21
33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. 34 When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
35 “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. 36 Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. 37 Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
38 “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ 39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”
42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:
“‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’
43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 44 Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
PS: Jesus coming up with a story where a guy sends his son and they kill him is very good foreshadowing. No notes. This could actually be a story about giving back what belongs to god by telling the Pharisees to fuck off, but I prefer my interpretation which is JC saying fuck landlords.
Matthew 19:24 "I'll say it again-it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of A needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!"
If you have extra homes, you are absolutely rich.
Some suggestions:
Jeremiah 22:13: “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages.”
Isaiah 5:8: “Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.”
If you want Jesus specifically, maybe the parable of the sheep the goats. Jesus emphasizes caring for the least of these, which includes feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, welcoming strangers, etc.
Based on Google not my own expertise. I think generally one needs to be equitable and compassionate.
James 5:1-6
1 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you.
2 Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.
3 Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days.
4 Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.
I don't know why not; Christianity has been about imperialism since the beginning. People forget that Revelations was written by a Jewish author, and the beast he described was Christianity