https://creationist.substack.com/p/christs-debt-reset-and-biblical-debt
The Lord’s prayer prays “forgive us our sins as we forgive our debtors”, asking for both a spiritual and economic clean-slate. This is of course because avoiding the temptation of sin would help prevent debt, and vice versa. This is also why constant warnings to “fear God only” are paired with this message, as fear could be a lure into debt.
Christ and the Prophet’s social-religious movement to erase debt and restore social-order then spread to Rome, who’s populist movements had already failed against a Roman oligarchy. Luke 24:47, Christ commands the message to be preached to all nations in his name. We could go on for days with examples from both the prophets and the gospels on all of this, but you’ll see it when you read it yourself now.
Picture: Liberty Bell, Leviticus 25 written on top, “Let Liberty Reign”
“Christendom” began with a debt reform in the 5th century, freeing the Roman debt-slaves from male-only barracks, letting them occupy farmland and have wives. The Byzantine Empire regularly managed and reset their debts, to guarantee the prosperity of their farmers and soldiers. Even America has done numerous land redistributions and debt defaults, like the homestead act of 1862 (only ended in the 1970’s).
The Liberty bell quotes Leviticus 25 referring to “let liberty reign”, liberty meaning freedom from debt in the verse. Over time debt resets were gradually forgotten or erased by aristocrats, only preserved in the Byzantine empire.
In the House of Representatives, a collection of 23 portraits of populist leaders who had erased debts hangs on the walls (Moses on the top left). The early American ideal was to maintain a state of “liberty” which meant low debt and self-sufficiency, modeled as a culmination of all of the populist ideas in one.
Debt & Natural Law
Giambattista Vico wrote in 1725, “class conflict” is a perennial conflict. I am not reducing the Bible to class-conflict, but highlighting the importance of material reality in The Bible, and to religion today. Hosea 4:2-3 states that society had “broken all bounds”, this is because debt extends beyond what is natural, it “cannot scale”. The reason for GMO fake food, is a scalable solution to feed an entire civilization in a debt economy, rather than a sensible agrarian solution with localized food supplies of real food.
The “breaking of all bounds” is to decouple from reality, and to raise up “idolatry” in reality’s place. Usury, sodomy, and idolatry were associated together in the Baal cult because the economic practices of debt, which is to create imaginary value out of exchange itself, leads to a decoupling from reality (idolatry). This is why mysticism and chaos magic often act as a shield to protect the illusions around economic mechanisms, “false structures of meaning” which can incentivize people to do things against the nature of creation.
