The Left Is Smarter On This

 

Christians will mock the Greens for this. In large part because the Spirit of the older brother in the parable of the prodigal son reigns strong in the Church. And because they forget 3 things:

1) Boomers and older Gen Xers actually got free university, though if I remember correctly it was subject to an aptitude or intelligence test, which is the right policy. It should be limited by ability, not income. Since HECS, or fee help, has been introduced the cost of education and the nonsensical state of higher education have both sky-rocketed, showing our current system is broken, badly. Introduce intelligence tests and you can't justify interpretive dance PhD's...but then how would anyone remember the 2024 Olympics, right?

2) It is a Christian imperative, not suggestion, to forgive debts. The New Testament gives two commands regarding debts: pay your debts, and forgive debts.

3) Society wide debt forgiveness is a biblical tradition, and was practiced by every successful ancient culture, and many Christian societies up until the late medieval era.

Wait till the Greens find out that countries as recently as the 1940's (Germany) have successfully forgiven debts society wide and their economies have boomed. They'll win every election in a landslide, rightly so. But Christians should have been far ahead of them. It's our Christian legacy in the New Testament, it's our biblical legacy from the Old Testament, and it's our historical legacy because it was Christian societies that continued this grand strategy for economic renewal of a society in the post Western Roman Empire era.

It's infuriating to me as both a pastor and historian that the Greens are so far ahead of the Church or Christian parties on such policies. But not surprising as I have long predicted they would be. The older brother gets angry when someone who was not as clever as him is relieved of their self-earned burdens. But if you forgave everyone's debts in the country, except mine I'd celebrate. The Christian political parties should run on a two part debt policy program: we want to forgive debts and tell everyone that Jesus forgave their sins. They'd win some seats that way. 

Because this goes beyond just personal responsibility, the system needs resets. If it does not get them, you end up having them forced by violent revolutions that reset everything anyway, but by force. If you don't want the so-called "Great Reset" to gain popularity, follow the original, the Jubilee.