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Usury in Christendom: The Mortal Sin that Was and Now is Not Kindle Edition
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Usury in Christendom provides the reader with a detailed understanding of how a den of thieves robbed the followers of Christ of their patrimony. It is grounded in an extensive study of rare and primary sources and represents a landmark revisionist history of how the breeders of money gained dominion over the West.
For most of the first 1500 years of Christianity usury, the lending of money at interest, was unanimously condemned by the Fathers of the Early Church, and by popes, councils and saints, as a damnable sin equivalent to robbery and even murder. Any interest on loans of money, not just exorbitant interest, was defined de fide as a grave transgression against God and man.
Hoffman confronts the reader with a startling datum: the overthrow of magisterial dogma and the approval of scripture-twisting heresy occurred inside the Church centuries before the Enlightenment and the dawn of the modern era, culminating in the overthrow of divine truth; an epochal act of nullification.
Usury in Christendom: The Mortal Sin that Was and Now is Not resurrects the suppressed biblical, patristic and medieval Catholic doctrine on interest on money, provides new information on the record of early Protestant resistance to the usury revolution, and the discernment, by Dante and other visionaries, of the sub-rosa connection between usury and a host of abominations that continue to plague us today.
Western civilization was profoundly disfigured by the ecclesiastic exculpation of the charging of interest on debt. The result has been a pursuit of usurious profit unconstrained by the Word of God, the dogma of His true Church, and the consensus patrum of fifteen centuries.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 8, 2016
- File size3249 KB
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- ASIN : B01LW18GIU
- Publisher : Independent History and Research (September 8, 2016)
- Publication date : September 8, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 3249 KB
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- Print length : 379 pages
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Michael Hoffman is an independent scholar and the author of ten books of history and literature, three of which have been published overseas in French and Japanese translation. He studied political science and history under Faiz Abu-Jaber at the State University of New York at Oswego, and at Hobart College under Francis J.M. O'Laughlin. A former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated Press, Mr. Hoffman is the editor of Revisionist History® newsletter.
Michael Hoffman writes:
The gatekeepers are determined to demonize this writer with stigmas such as "holocaust denier" and "anti-semite." These scurrilous libels are devices for intimidating potential readers, colleagues and supporters, and limiting the exchange of knowledge between a scholar and fellow truth-seekers. My authentic views are as follows: Judaic people suffered severe and unconscionable persecution during World War II, including mass murder at the hands of the Nazis. I deplore these crimes and the criminal Nazi ideology which inspired and directed them. At the same time, it is necessary to have the courage to point out the many parallels between Nazi ideology and the Zionist ideology which is engaged in the on-going dispossession and killing of Palestinians.
Concerning "anti-semitism": this phrase is supposed to denote racial loathing of Judaic persons, but is often employed to stigmatize those who dare to offer a narrative of Judaism which challenges rabbinic narratives, or who dissent from the received opinion concerning Israeli actions in Palestine. Judaic dissent from Talmudism and Zionism has largely been omitted from the controversy. Consider that Norman Finkelstein, author of "Gaza: An Inquest," Noam Chomsky, and other Judaic dissidents, have been accused of "anti-semitism." This phrase is employed in many cases merely in order to gain advantage over political rivals by silencing them. My work is based on love and not hatred. My targets are ideologies and theologies, not people.
I am opposed to every form of hate with every fibre of my being. The movement to ban this writer's books and cancel my presence online should be seen for what it is: a partisan political effort to repress a legitimate opposing viewpoint and curtail the contribution my scholarship makes to the advancement of human knowledge.
My work transcends tribal atavisms and resentments. For example, in "Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare" I sought to deconstruct the command ideology of the Cryptocracy, while exploring an epistemology capable of inspiring higher consciousness by decoding the esoteric manipulation of thought patterns and the 'group mind' which impede our ability to transcend humanity's perpetual squabbles and simian warfare.
In the book "They Were White and They Were Slaves" I studied anew the circumstances surrounding so-called 'white indentured servitude' and discovered the prevalence of a far more onerous chattel enslavement of seventeenth century whites in America, and the dehumanized status of poor whites over the next two centuries.
In "Usury in Christendom: The Mortal Sin that Was and Now is Not," I argue that during the Renaissance, gentile usurers gained firm purchase inside the Roman Church by scapegoating rival Judaic usurers. I also demonstrate that early Puritans, far from being the stereotypical skinflints and shylocks of legend, denounced and opposed usury, even as Renaissance Catholic popes and prelates were granting permission for it and benefiting from its proceeds.
"The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome,” published in 2017, is a heavily documented revisionist history of the concealed Neoplatonic-Hermetic ideology of the popes of the early modern era.
My latest book “Adolf Hitler: Enemy of the German People” (2019), is intended as an antidote to the Hitler hologram, and the attraction of Hitler's model of murderous dictatorship which, tragically, has become something of a template for young radicals on the Far Right.
My non-conforming research and writing do not fit simplistic Left/Right political or denominational categories, and because I violate taboos enforced by hysterical ideologues, my name and reputation have been unfairly blackened.
Those who question any significant aspect of the Establishment's holy dogma suffer the imputation of being an "irredeemable." The subsequent demonization is the penalty imposed for doubting the sacred orthodoxies of the ruling class. Political correctness is a dictatorship that disfigures and smothers nearly every truth it encounters. It ought to be defied. I will not be silenced.
Truth-seekers with the curiosity and good will to look beyond the libelous opprobrium put forth by self-appointed thought police, will encounter in my books challenges to the consensus across a broad spectrum of revisionist history and Fortean epistemology.
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What this book by Mr. Hoffman shows is that long before the 1900s, the Church struggled with the Biblical prohibition on usury (earning interest on loans) in a campaign lasting nearly 1500 years. Finally, the Church compromised on this doctrine in the 1500s so the Catholic Church could set up its own bank(s) to loan money. What followed was the horrible Protestant Reformation and the wholesale slaughter of many that involved and the long slow decline of morals in the Church and wider world. Before the first struggled in recent times against evolution or ordination of women, the battle had already been lost.
Hoffman’s research shows where the Church - Catholic, Protestant and all modern denominations - went wrong and how we must reform our doctrine. Not only this, he shows how most of the economic ills of the present day spring forth from this terrible sin of usury and how capitalism has been allowed to throw off this important Biblical restraint.
Something needs to be done, and I think the FICO system is messed up. It was a refreshing read, and I think the church should preach more on anti usury.







