The history of debt forgiveness

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The history of debt forgiveness Christanon 12/18/18 (Tue) 03:09:25 ea7650 No.743051

Michael Hudson, in his new book “…And Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year,” shares with journalist Chris Hedges how Ancient cultures forgave debt cyclically to prevent debt peonage and the rise of an oligarch elite.

He cites Leviticus 25, which pretty much cancels debt obligations in a vast majority of cases before concluding:

“‘Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee, for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Hedges mentions at the 6.20 mark that the only act by Jesus that can be considered violent was when he overturned the tables of the Pharisees and the moneylenders in the temple (Matthiew 21-12):

"And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers".

Can a modern-day Christian look at our present situation without making a parallel? Debt peonage: check. Oligarchic power structure: check. Fake preachers getting rich through profane sermons: check. Man we really need a guy like Jesus right now. But he died (slightly less than) 2000 years ago. So it looks like we're gonna have to do it ourselves this time.

Is there anything in the Bible or elsewhere related to how he did it?

Christanon 12/18/18 (Tue) 03:16:36 1d9289 No.743054

>>743051

The problem with using anything from the Torah is that Jews were allowed to penalize outsiders (unless they converted).

But the Church is the new Israel and called to extend farther than itself. There is technically no "outsider" to the embrace of Christ. All are called to repentence.. and forgiveness.

While Jews still operate with the same insularity."Good rules for me and not for thee."

Any Westerners they've gotten on board with this are not Christians and wouldn't listen whatever you tell them. They're pirates… or rather, the offspring of pirates. There's a reason why

Skull and Bones names itself as such. It's really that petty and base. It's just a bunch of degenerate individuals in it for the phat l00tz. They work hand in hand with Jews in creating the current hells on Earth, but think they're both using each other as well.