An Open Letter to the New Pope
The new guy has big shoes - and big hats - to fill
Dear Robert,
The right thinks you’re too woke.
The left thinks you aren’t pro-gay enough.
So you’re probably the right guy for the job.
It isn’t the Pope’s job to be political, of course.
Partisanship is a masquerade for the hideous demons who hide behind the masks; the puppeteers who control the strings of the hapless marionettes.
Besides, politics is a downstream issue.
So are your other big worries:
Climate change.
Global migration.
Human rights.
The rapidly approaching AI takeover.
Think upstream.
Planetary degradation is the result of an economic system that mathematically requires cancer-like perpetual compounding growth.
Global migration is just a ploy by globalist shareholders to avoid paying to educate domestic workforces and then avoid paying them living wages.
Human rights only exist when the working class has enough power to defend itself against the asset-hoarding class.
The takeover by artificial intelligence is happening because techbro billionaires own the government and aren’t held accountable by anyone.
You need to go upstream of these issues.
You need to talk about economics.
Reverse the church’s stance on interest
The 1830s were a bad time for Catholic theology.
For centuries, the Medici bankster family and other Italian usurers had been drilling at the foundations of Catholic teaching on interest, desperate to breach a hole in the citadel.
In the 1830s, you propped the front gates wide open.
The word usury doesn’t mean “excessively high interest rates.”
Usury is simply the act of charging interest — any amount of interest.
The word usury doesn’t even appear in the original Bible.
Much-later Latin writers concocted the word usury, and money-lovers quickly twisted it to justify charging of interest by pretending the Bible was saying high interest rates, or interest on commercial loans.
But every time the word ‘interest’ appears in the Bible, it doesn’t say “a lot of interest” or “a little bit of interest”… under Jesus’s law of love, all interest on all lending is a sin.
Because let’s think about it for a moment — who defines “a lot” of interest?
Is 200% APR a lot of interest?
No… not if your country is experiencing 600% inflation.
Is 0.0001% a lot of interest?
Yeah… that’s brutally high if you’re in a time of hyper-deflation.
Interest rates of one-one-hundredth of a percent can be crushingly exploitative, depending on the economic circumstance.
Christians. don’t. do. moral. relativism.
It’s a sin to play God.
Just like Adam and Eve, we don’t get to pick and choose what’s right and what’s wrong.
Rise up and take a public stand against interest.
Ban it in the Vatican.
Christians lend to bless, not to profit.
Blow the horn of jubilee
Call for a global debt erasure.
We are long overdue.
The world is currently paying over $10 trillion per year in interest — an overwhelming wealth transfer from the bottom 90% to the top 10%.
The working poor need that money, not the passive rich.
Just do the math and compound this out for another 25 years.
Global debt will break the world if we don’t jubilee it now.
Demand land rights for all again
Declare God’s literal ownership of everything.
Call Catholics to renounce their false claims of ownership of God’s possessions and understand their identity as stewards.
And help them understand this truth:
People’s needs are met when they apply human work-time to God’s land.
So what happens if people are barred access to God’s land and His free resources because others are hoarding more than what they genuinely need? That gives landless people one of three choices. Everyone who needs resources to survive either has to:
Rent land at a profit to someone else
Borrow money to buy land at a profit to someone else
Sell your labour as a discount to create a profit margin for someone else
The current privatization and monopolization of land means that people have to submit to economic exploitation just to survive. Is that really God’s intention?
And it gets worse. Because these profiteers now have principal and profits to spend, thanks to the work of landless workers, the rich can outbid everyone else for other assets. Which is exactly what they do, which makes the problem worse and worse with each passing generation. Our current mammonomic system guarantees homelessness, ever-increasing prices, ever-increasing debt, ever-increasing rent, and way more work than is necessary for an ordinary person to have enough. It’s an unbelievably profitable treadmill that the establishment simply will not let human mice get off.
The entire Mammonomics economy is founded on exploitation.
When the Bible says “do justice,” how can there ever be justice if the entire economic system is founded on injustice?
Champion honest money
Rail against dishonest money.
Bankers must be once again forbidden to print debt-based interest-bearing money out of thin air.
In total, private banks have used this horrific money-creation scheme to plunge the world into $330 trillion in debt.
The Bible says that debtors are slaves to their lenders. In fact, bank shareholders have stolen 4 times more human time in the past 50 years than the entire transatlantic slave trade did in 400 years.
Raise up a generation of abolitionists like William Wilberforce to eradicate our generation’s slavery.
Teach your people Christian economics again
Interest.
Jubilee.
Land rights.
Honest money.
These are just four of hundreds of Christian economic principles.
It’s time to teach the world’s 1+ billion Catholics what it means to be a Christian economically.
Of course, you’ll need to lead by example
You’ll have no choice but to cleanse the Vatican Bank like Jesus cleansed the temple.
Out with the stocks and bonds and interest-based lending and landlording and land-hoarding and wealth accumulation.
True faith in Christ is proven by the good works it produces.
It is our active love and service to the least of these that proves real salvation.
If you want to legitimize the Catholic church, you need to make it act like a Christian one.
In conclusion
Economics is upstream of everything.
Literally everything.
Except for one thing.
The only thing upstream of resource allocation is spirituality.
Faith.
This is where you should (and I’m sure, will) invest most of your time.
Humans only matter because they are created in the image of God.
In a godless, humanist, materialist world, mass murder is just the rearrangement of atoms and molecules.
One could argue it’s actually better for the environment (fewer polluters) and better for the economy (less demand = less inflation).
Without God, there cannot be a real morality. Nothing is right or wrong without a source of absolute truth.
So, teach that God exists, and that humans are created in His image.
Teach that His word is true, and that His economics are brilliant.
After all, God’s economics reflect Christ’s character.
The more we study Christian economics, the more deeply we fall in love with Jesus.
And isn’t that ultimately the whole point of the Catholic church?
Do this, and the nations will rise up and call you blessed.
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