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Debt Mirrors the Divine Contract
In ancient ritual systems:
The gods grant blessings (life, land, kingship)
In return, humans owe worship, sacrifice, loyalty.
This is the first debt: the soul in contract with heaven.
Later:
Kings rule “by divine right” you owe taxes (material worship)
Priests interpret god’s will you owe obedience (psychic debt)
So from the beginning:
All power structures are built on a premise that you owe something to a force you can’t see, touch, or fully understand.
Money Replaces God, Debt Replaces Sin
Faith in Currency = Worship of Invisible Law
Who Enforces This Law
Babylon: The Birthplace of Structured Debt
In ancient Babylon (ca. 1800 BCE), kings maintained rule via a dual system:
Gods give the king divine right.
The king issues loans—grain, land, livestock—to subjects.
But too much debt crushed farmers, soldiers, and citizens.
So came the mīšarum edict: a debt jubilee. Every so often, the king would:
Erase all personal debts
Free debt-slaves
Return seized lands
Why? Because if he didn’t, the system collapsed. Society only worked if debt was divine—but not eternal.
This “reset logic” is one of the first known state-scale magical balancing acts.
2. Torah Carries the Memory of Jubilee
Centuries later, the Hebrew Bible encoded this idea:
“At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts.”
—Deuteronomy 15:1
And more radically:
“You shall proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.”
—Leviticus 25:10 (used on the U.S. Liberty Bell)
The Yovel (Jubilee Year) was:
A divine reset every 49 years
All debts cancelled
Land returned to original families
Slaves freed
Why? Because YHWH owns the land, not bankers or kings.

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3. Jesus vs the Temple-Bankers
Now enter Jesus. Not soft messiah. Economic saboteur.
When he flips the tables of the moneylenders in the temple (Matthew 21), it’s not just moral outrage—it’s a strike against the economic arm of Rome's theocratic order.
The Temple wasn’t just a holy place—it was a bank.
Loans were issued in temple coin.
Sacrifices had to be purchased with converted currency.
The poor were trapped in a cycle of religious debt.
Jesus quotes Isaiah:
“You have made it a den of thieves.”
He’s calling them debt-priests.
He's invoking Jubilee, live.
This moment gets him targeted for death. Because what he’s doing is threatening both:
The spiritual economy
The imperial economy
4. Modern World: No More Jubilees
Unlike Babylon or Torah, our system has no divine release valve.
Debts are permanent
Interest is infinite
The economy must grow forever to avoid collapse
We live in a closed ritual where the god of debt must be fed continuously.
And if the offering (labor, time, assets) ever dries up?
Austerity
Bailouts for the priest class
Collapse for the commoner
There is no forgiveness in this faith. Only refinancing.
5. The Hidden Counter-Script
What Jesus offered was not just personal salvation. He was attempting a full magical rewrite:
Return the land.
Forgive the debts.
Free the slave.
Reset the grid.
This would have rebooted the system back to divine balance.
Rome didn’t crucify him because he was a spiritual teacher.
They crucified him because he attacked the logic of control.
Final Spell Fragment:
“Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.”
That's not a metaphor. That’s the ritual script of Jubilee hidden in a prayer.

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I'm not familiar with the game, can you elaborate a bit? I'll check it out sometime

>so like -- we've been doing evil for hundreds of years this will never backfire! Type deal?