2022 Student Loan Forgiveness / Pell Grants - Checkmate Christians

In the Old Testament's legal system for the Jewish people's theocratic ethnostate, interest was prohibited in loans to other Jews. Specifically, it prohibited applying interest to: "your brother".

It was possible for non Jews to become a part of the community, but that typically required 10 generations of residence.

Consequentially, religious Jews have not historically minded lending at interest to non Jews.

Catholic theologians later prohibited the charging of interest. Similarly, Muslims also prohibit interest. This usually doesn't work out well on a national scale, as seen by the historical trend of people's who prohibit interest developing foreign lender castes.

However, in Jesus parable of the Talents, he spoke of the unfaithful servant being reprimanded for not at least depositing his talent with the lender so it could gather interest.
Helping your brother is encouraged in the New Testament without any expectation of repayment, interest or no, but the idea that interest is inherently sinful in all circumstances is dubious even from a purely Old Testament reading.

All of this could be found with a 2 minute google search. Not that I would expect a Twitter hot take to bother checking sources.

More seriously, the specific examples Jesus used had some connotations in the society he lived. If you turned the other cheek they'd have to hit you with the filthy hand, they can't force you to go naked outside, and the Romans couldn't make you go more than a mile with them or something. So there was a shade of malicious compliance there on top of everything else. That I'd see working much better than simply trying to beat them up. I like malicious compliance.