Anglican Priest: Thou SHALT Steal... but only from the rich stores.

[Ninong]

Thou SHALT Steal...

...but only from the rich stores.

In his Sunday sermon Anglican priest tells congregation that it's okay for people in need to shoplift provided they take only what they really need to survive and only from large stores.

Thou SHALT Shoplift

Poor people who are desperate for cash have been advised to go forth and shoplift from major stores - by an Anglican priest.

The Rev Tim Jones said in his Sunday sermon that stealing from successful shops was preferable to burglary, robbery or prostitution.

He told parishioners it would not break the eighth commandment 'thou shalt not steal' because it 'is permissible for those who are in desperate situations to take food that they might not starve'.

But his advice was roundly condemned by police and the local Tory MP. Father Jones, 42, was discussing Mary and the birth of Jesus when he went on to the subject of how poor and vulnerable people cope in the run-up to Christmas.

'My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift,' he told his stunned congregation at St Lawrence and St Hilda in York.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1237470/Priest-advises-congregation-shoplift.html#ixzz0aRdns5Sz

[metalhead]

Makes perfect sense to me... Looks like I'll be sewing some pockets inside my trenchcoat and taking a trip to wally-world shortly... Too bad they don't sell skimmers!

[gregony]

Is it stealing if you just plan on borrowing it ... until you die? Oh, and metalhead, don't forget the foil for the greeters. (An obscure ref to Slapshot's Hansen Bro's). And I feel really, really, guilty for saying this, and I know I'll probably go to hell for thinking it, but sometimes I really want to just drop one of those Wally World greeters myself. Not because I'm stealing anything, but just because I feel like I'm losing a piece of my humanity everytime I enter that God-foresaken store. And as much as I hate it, I can't help but keep going back there. So every time one of those remnants of a proud civilization past "welcomes me" back to consumer Hell, I just have to bite my lip, say "thanks", grab a shopping cart and hold onto the bar as tight as I can so I don't end up being the subject of an hour long Nancy Grace special on why would any low life punch an 81 year old lady in the face.