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'Usury System' and the Appeal to Debt-Ridden Farmers (From The 'Christian Identity' Movement: Analyzing Its Theological Rationalization for Racist and Anti-Semitic Violence, P 39-41, 1987 -- See NCJ-115439)

NCJ Number
115441
Author(s)
L Zeskind
Date Published
1987
Length
3 pages
Annotation
The economic theories of the Christian Identity movement are described.
Abstract
The Christian Identity movement contains several factions. One faction advocates biblical economics, which accuses the Federal Reserve system of causing economic problems in America by creating money and attacks Jews as participants in a money lenders' conspiracy. Biblical economics taps deep economic frustrations felt by farmers, and was used in 1986 in an unsuccessful attempt to cause a midwestern farmers' strike.

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