Leviticus 25:8–22
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age of dueling economic insanities. On one side, you have the Marxists and their various socialist children who believe the State is the ultimate owner of all things. For them, private property is theft, and the solution to every problem is another layer of bureaucratic control, which is itself a form of organized, legalized theft. On the other side, you have a brand of rapacious, godless capitalism that believes the autonomous individual or corporation is the ultimate owner of all things. For them, property is absolute, and the pursuit of profit is the highest good, even if it means grinding the poor into the dust and creating a permanent debtor class. Both systems, when untethered from the fear of God, are idolatrous. One idol is the State, the other is Mammon. One is the slavery of the commissar, the other is the slavery of the crushing mortgage and the 28 percent interest rate on your credit card.