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Written by Richard Tan

Wednesday, 23 December 2009 09:33

What do you do when you meet hard times? Go to church and pray. What do you do when that still doesn't put bread on your plate? Steal.

Yeap, that's the very practical advise dished out by Reverend Tim Jones, Parish priest of St Lawrence and St Hilda in York. He said society's attitude to those in need "leaves some people little option but crime".

Speaking to his congregation on Sunday, Father Jones said: "My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift.

"I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good thing, or because I think it is harmless, for it is neither.

"I would ask that they do not steal from small, family businesses, but from national businesses, knowing that the costs are ultimately passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices.

Speaking later on BBC Radio York, Father Jones said his intention had not been to rally people to shoplifting, but to encourage people to give more to charity to avoid those in need from becoming so desperate.

"If one has exhausted every legal opportunity to get money and you're still in a desperate situation it is a better moral thing to do to take absolutely no more than you need for no longer than you need," he said.

However the Archdeacon of York, the Venerable Richard Seed, said: "Father Tim Jones is raising important issues about the difficulties people face when benefits are not forthcoming, but shoplifting is not the way to overcome these difficulties."

What, do these people not have prior meetings to align their brainwashing speeches/sermons? How to achieve world domination with contrasting ideas?

Article from BBC via Derren Brown