'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
• Sale Source: Democratic Renewal Education Fund
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

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.