This paradigm of scarcity and insufficiency is the philosophy that undergirds our structures of systemic sin. We fear there won’t be enough land, water, food, oil, money, labor to go around, so we build evil structures of sinful force to guarantee that those we call “us” will have what we call “ours.” We call it security. We call it defense. We call it freedom. What we don’t call it is what it is...fear. Driven by our fear of scarcity we create an organized, large-scale, slow-motion version of anarchy. A mob on a looting and killing rampage is called anarchy. European colonists looting and
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