The Bible, Nagaland and Its Neighbouring States Situation

In the Bible, it is written:

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house;

you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife,

or his manservant,

or his maidservant

or his ox, or his ass,

or anything that is your neighbor’s

Exodus 20:17 (RSV)

Coveting and Consumerism

(from Brueggemann)

We must recognize that we live in a culture and society that encourages a type of coveting called consumerism

“the propensity to covet in our society is enacted through an unbridled consumerism that believes the main activity of human life is to accumulate, use, and enjoy more and more of the available resources of the earth.”

~ Brueggemann

This consumerism is based on an assumption of scarcity, which justifies accumulating all that one can.

“This commandment summons the faithful to break with the practice of acquisitive individualism and to reject the ideology of scarcity upon which it is based.”

~ Brueggemann

The rejection of the coveting of consumerism, which is an “activity of untrusting restlessness,” links the Tenth Commandment with the Fourth Commandment on the Sabbath.

In the case of Nagaland and Its neighbours:

The Naga people claim that be it Manipur, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh or any neighbouring states of Nagaland wherever they occupied since time immemorial belongs to the Naga people, they claim that they have the right to be integrated.

On the otherhand, the neighbouring states would never agreed to their claim.

Here is the the big question:

Is the Naga people coveting their neighbour’s properties or vice versa?


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