JCT: I've just added some recent discoveries to my Bible Monetary
Reform page: http://johnturmel.com/poembibl.htm

I found on Buddhism:

"One discerns wrong livelihood as wrong livelihood, and right
livelihood as right livelihood. And what is wrong livelihood?
Scheming, persuading, hinting, belittling, and charging interest.
This is wrong livelihood."
--Siddharta Gautama Buddha in his sermon on the Eightfold Path
(Majjhima Nikaya Suttra 117)

JCT: To verse:

The Majjhima Nikaya Suttra 117 test:
Where Buddha says "Wrong livelihood is charging interest."

JCT: I've also found out that the great Hindu Brahmans were
Abolitionists too:

"Hinduism
A Brahmana and a Kshatriya shall not lend anything at interest...
'God weighed in the scales the crime of killing a learned
Brahmana against the crime of charging interest; the slayer of
the Brahmana remained at the top, the charger of interest sank
downwards.'
(Vasishtha, The Sacred Laws of the Aryas, Part II, Chptr 2, vs 40-42)
Note how the Hindu Sage Vasishtha considered charging interest a
crime worse han murder! Real and blatant slavery of men, women
and children, is rampant in India because of India's disregard
for her own Hindu principles.

JCT: So I put that to verse and added it to my poem:

HINDUISM
Vasishtha, Chapter 2, Part II, verse 40 of the laws,
Of Aryas say Brahmans don't take interest because:
God weighed in scales the crime of killing and of interest;
And found loansharking worst of crimes compared to all the rest.


JCT: And while I was at it, I decided to stress how Jesus' most
remembered phrase explained how a bank account works! I added the
next four verses to the chapter THIS WORLD'S LAW OF ABUNDANCE

"So Luke, Marc, Matthew, Thomas, Peter, seven times get right,
What most preoccupied the Christ: the Beast he had in sight.
Death-gamble mort-gage was oppression yoke of slavery,
To battle loansharks for the world was why his bravery."

JCT: Seven times he is quoted talking about taking interest from
the poor to pay interest to the rich! And almost no one knows
what the most cited quote in Christendom means yet. Har har har.