The Secret History of the Protestant Reformation
A Revolt Against Papal-Fugger Usury
and Catholic Nominalism
Michael Hoffman
“The heathen were able, by the light of reason, to conclude that a usurer is a double-dyed thief and murderer. We Christians, however, hold them in such honor, that we fairly worship them for the sake of their money…Whoever eats up, robs and steals the nourishment of another, that man commits as great a murder...as he who starves a man or utterly undoes him. Such does a usurer, and sits the while safe on his stool, when he ought rather to be hanging on the gallows, and be eaten by as many ravens as he has stolen guilders…
"Meanwhile, we hang the small thieves...Little thieves are put in the stocks, great thieves go flaunting gold and silks...there is, on this earth, no greater enemy of man (after the devil), than a gripe-money and usurer, for he wants to be god over all men...a usurer and money glutton—such a one would would have the whole world perish from hunger and thirst, misery and want...so that he may have all to himself and every one may receive from him as from a god, and be his serf forever.
"To wear fine cloaks, golden chains...to be deemed and taken for a worthy, pious man...Usury is a great huge monster, like a werewolf, who lays waste all...and yet decks himself out and would be thought pious...”
"To wear fine cloaks, golden chains...to be deemed and taken for a worthy, pious man...Usury is a great huge monster, like a werewolf, who lays waste all...and yet decks himself out and would be thought pious...”
— Martin Luther
Luther’s views were a loyal reaffirmation of the immemorial Roman Catholic dogma of all of the popes prior to the Renaissance, all of the Fathers of the Early Church, of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Anthony of Padua. After Neoplatonic-Hermeticism invaded the hierarchy of the Church of Rome it succumbed to the modernism of the neo-Catholic Nominalist school, which made 5% usury respectable and fueled the Catholic Fugger usury empire (the Fuggers were the buccaneer-capitalists who banked the Renaissance papacy's indulgence loot).
Catholics excoriate John Calvin for supposedly pioneering the 5% interest rate in Christendom, but Calvin wasn’t even born when Nominalism and the “5% Fuggers" were first in the ascendant; and Calvin was a child when Medici Pope Leo X began the gradual derogation of the immutable Catholic law against profit on loans (which was sustained by all of his successors), beginning with his papal bull of May, 1515.
Martin Luther’s rage against the pope's incremental permission for profit on loans is one of the most tightly suppressed motivating factors of the early Protestant Reformation.
To this day, the world believes the propaganda that Rome stood against the money-gluttons, while it was the early Protestants who were the first to enable them. In fact, once the Medici put their “monte” usury banks into operation, the Money Power was in a position to buy ecclesiastical offices and choose personnel in the hierarchy of the Church. From the sixteenth century until now the Church of Rome has been under the suzerainty of money.
Many Catholics flee from these facts and our writings and videos on this subject are suppressed or ignored, eerily similar to Zionist tactics. No debate is undertaken (a lone, honorable exception was Anthony Santelli's review in Culture Wars).
We will not be silenced! The facts presented in our work on the roots of the Money Power in western civilization are not going to go away because papist thought-cops want it to be so. Modern-Catholic “silent treatment” methods will not extinguish the truth.
For further research:
Revisionist History Newsletter No. 65: Martin Luther and Zinskauf: The German Reformation in the Struggle over Usury. Luther’s early and later positions against greed and the Money Power, documented. So many lies have been told about Luther in this regard. No bull, just facts: where he erred and where he was right.
Order issue no. 65 here: http://revisionisthistorystore.blogspot.com/2010/03/hoffmans-revisionist-store-newsletters_31.html
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"History of Catholic and Protestant Usury" DVD
In this college-level lecture in the theology of money given at Lansing, Michigan in April, 2015, historian Michael Hoffman summarizes his book Usury in Christendom: The Mortal Sin that Was and Now is Not, and answers challenging questions from the audience. Digitally recorded in color in front of a live audience. Approx. two hours. All-region DVD.
Usury in Christendom: The Mortal Sin that Was and Now is Not by Michael Hoffman
Softcover book, 416 pages, illustrated.
Both the book and the DVD are available for purchase here:
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