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In Reply to: Re: Taking the money & running posted by Observer on August 24, 2004 at 18:15:24:
This guy isn't Robin Hood, and I don't believe Penn's confession was necessary for Ricky to gain support from his peers.
Penn can only justify taking that ill-gotten money for his own purposes if he uses his current resources to help the people who paid for the economic and social advantages he obtained at their expense. "To whom much is given, much is expected."
Penn was a PR worker with a more marketable set of job skills than the typical missionary member. If he's smart enough to extort money from thieves, could that have happened because he helped them figure out how to fleece the flock with all that propaganda he cranked out at their behest?
Taking money from thieves doesn't change the fact it was stolen money to begin with. If he's truly a person of courageous character, he'll find a way to redeem a stolen inheritance.
