Religion & Usury

[Anders Lindman]

In the past, over a thousand years ago, the elite accepted that religious texts spoke of usury as something bad even while they themselves used usury. That even helped them to keep competition for power away. But alas! By allowing that they sealed their own future destruction.

It's virtually impossible for the elite to change the religious texts today. For example, in the New Testament there is the story:

"Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. "It is written," he said to them, " 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a 'den of robbers.'" -- Matthew 21 (New International Version)

Today people are beginning to wake up to the fact that the central banks are just like the tables of the money changers, and the texts condemning usury in old religious scriptures now become like a gun by which the banking elite are shooting themselves in the foot.

[revolution 9]

Do enough people know, or even care, that usury is condemned in the Bible to make the elite quake?

[Anders Lindman]

Do enough people know, or even care, that usury is condemned in the Bible to make the elite quake?

I haven't heard fundamental Christians talking much about this. What would happen if they suddenly would do that? The Christian community is a strong force, and one not easily influenced by outside information.

[revolution 9]

Probably nothing.

[Anders Lindman]

But look at how the elite could have underestimated the power of religion. They probably thought that the introduction of science some hundreds of years ago would render religion obsolete. That's not what has happened. Religion is today still as strong as ever. And there are few things that have so strong traditional foundation as the major religions.