Hoffman: From Usury to Homosexuality

Self-confessed “Medieval Catholic” Michael Hoffman II is on again about how the church ‘took over & twisted’ the evil of usury (he’s dead right on that one). He has used this 300+ year subtle change to compare with the Catholic change that has only taken a decade or so to affect the same way with the acceptance of homosexuality. I summarise his most recent tome converting it into a shortened dialogue. In essence he shows the way that the devil works by using situational ethics to twist binary matters into non-binary.

Hoffman asks, “Who determines what is excessive rent on money?” then answers: ” In practice it is decided by the ethics of the times and the situation in which the borrower and lender find themselves. Should prostitution be permitted to Christians if the harlot does not charge an “excessive” fee? Once Christians are committing sin under official auspices, managed by arbitrary man-made boundaries, we have entered the devil’s kingdom, ruled by the kings of the hedge fund deals and the financialization of a once Christian society that inevitably arises when sins universally condemned for thousands of years are found to be allowable under certain “narrowly defined circumstances.” As history teaches, in time even those limits dissolve.”

When Google’s clearly overly aggressive and manipulated personalisation of their spam filter (clearly designed to kick him out) allows it, I receive prolific author Michael Hoffman’s newsletters.

His latest one shares a lot about 1515 and Pope Leo X who authorised usury for the first time in 1500 years. Participating in usury was a mortal sin up until that point. Michael then shares how the 300+ years they used to gain acceptance with usury has been shortened to only a decade or so with the same process with homosexuality.

Now while the has always been pressure on the black and white, bible-believers like me, the current day widespread acceptance of what he calls “situation ethics” means that his question, “who sets the values?” can never be answered by the infallible. This is the clear mark of the enemy at work – attempting to usurping God’s word. Much easier and more valuable it is to simply accept the Word of God. “In the beginning God … ” thus we have a creation event that took six days, not billions. “Usury (the charging of interest) and homosexuality (and a bunch of other ‘bad’ things like deceit, arrogance and so on) are also wrong”, well, according to the One who should be obeyed, anyway!

Ooough, this gets nasty in a hurry doesn’t it?

The bottom line is that 99.9% of the time Michael is dead right and where he isn’t it is simply because he, like many of us, simply lacks vision. It’s a good read, if a little wordy but that is Michael for ya!

https://michaelhoffman.substack.com/p/memo-to-pope-francis-god-cannot-and

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