I think I’ll stop by the rectory and take the priest’s big screen tv..thanks !
So because you take this action out of context, deliberately misinterpret it to suit your image of the action it means the same thing as theft.
Would a soldier taking an ammo pack off of a dead comrade be stealing?
How about a brother priest who was a personal friend and confessor who passed away? Taking up the cross is not the same thing as a television set, it is not the same as a car.
You judge wrongly, and too harshly by misinterpreting this.