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From: wws@siemens.UUCP (William W Smith)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: Interest Rates. part 2
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Date: Fri, 27-Jul-84 11:09:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 27 11:09:45 1984
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> One event that I saw last fall on TV struck home to me. They were 
> interviewing farmers in the midwest who were loosing their farms to the 
> banks.  The banker said something like "It's too bad, but, THERE'S NOTHING 
> THAT CAN BE DONE."  

I just found a passage from the New Testament that is relevant to my claim
that the banker was misled when he said nothing could be done.


To wit: Luke 7, vs. 41-42


	"Two men owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five 
	hundred denarii [500 days wages] and the other fifty.  Neither of them 
	had the money to pay him back, so he cancelled the debts of both."


I can't imagine a more clear statement that it is possible to be just with 
those who owe us money, that it is a possible course to take a debt as
lost without ruining the lives of the debtor.

Bill Smith
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