Don't know much about the Bible, and too lazy to do the research. Perhaps some of you know off the top of your heads?
I could swear that bankruptcy--the merciful granting of debt relief--is to be found in the Old Testament. Leviticus or something, one of the books that does law after law after law.
I recall the Bible prescribed this relief to be granted every 7 years. And wondering, when I later studied bankruptcy law, if this was the origin of the statutory provision that one could use bankruptcy only once every 7 years.
Finally, I swear that this Old Testament provision read something like, "let freedom ring out through the land..."--meaning debt relief--and that's the quote on the Liberty Bell.
Assuming I'm not hallucinating all this, you see where I'm heading: the pending bankruptcy bill as one more example of these Holier than Thous not exactly following the Good Book.