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I do not think that bankers are behind all wars.

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Let me explain why I think that way. Obvious answer is that there are wars in the ancient world (ancient enough where banks and money will not have existed) and in the parts of the world where banks do not have that much of an influence. I do not think banks are existent when the Hebrews conquered the promised land during the events of the Book of Joshua, for example. After all, people were still storing and preserving their wealth by burying it like pirate treasure, or carrying it around with them. Both are methods of storing wealth before any institution resembling banks existed.

In fact, banking and lending for interest is not especially prohibited in the Bible. One of Jesus's Parables (The Parable of Talents to be precise) have the master harshly condemned a lazy servant who did nothing with the modest sum of money (referred to as "talents") and just hide it away (which is what people used to do to protect their valuables and wealth before banks). Said master even have this suggestion to the condemned servant:

Matthew 25:26-28 “But his master answered and said to him, ‘You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed. Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.’

Luke 19:22-24 He said to him, ‘By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow? Then why did you not put my money in the bank, and having come, I would have collected it with interest?’ Then he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’

In this light, banking and lending with interest becomes a fact of life in a mature civilization with mature economies and mature societies.

Want my opinion on what causes wars?

My opinion is what cause wars and conflicts is politics. I have taken a training course in political campaigning a couple of years ago, and one of the first lessons is what is politics is really about: The proclamation of power and the process of figuring out who rules over whom. Sounds ugly, but the teacher tells us to count our blessings because, in other parts of the world, politics is carried out primarily with violence and thugs with guns (with a picture of a crying woman being executed by a Taliban goon to drive home that point).

When put into that perspective, war is an extension of politics to defeat and dominate one's enemies and opponents. War are not necessarily evil. God has used wars and invasion to correct and punish the wicked, from driving out the wicked tribes from the Promised Land to allowing foreign invasions to punish the fallen Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and causing said invaders to be defeated in warfare by the Israelites once the punishing is done. However, like all things earthly, wars have been repeatedly hijacked to serve the interests of evil, and no doubt evil will try to hijack these current wars too if they have not done so already.

The De Facto Mission Statement of the Great Awakening Movement is to have everyone expand their thinking beyond what they programmed to think in order to find the truth. To achieve this, we must be willing to put to the harshest tests our own beliefs; failure to do so means we are no better than the normies we mock constantly (in fact, we might be worse by then since we have the element of ungodly pride blinding us to our impending fall).