A well-known pundit/huckster has created a new website called
Deliverance From Debt (I won't include a link as it's not worth visiting). The alleged purpose of the site is to help Christians with debt issues.

The basic theme of the site is, if you are in debt you are in a state of sin, and it's because you are not tithing to your church. Way to go, Gary, let's capitalize on the misery and suffering of the multitudes in this recession, depression, or whatever it is, by laying a judgmental guilt trip on people. Yep, that's all these poor people who are already in a stressful, difficult situation need.

Gary N. must be a believer in the theory that it's possible
for everyone to be a millionaire if you just follow the Bible:
believe in Jesus, tithe to the church, and sure enough, you
will become a mill-yun-aire, just like that.

Funny thing is, I have read the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, through several times. I don't recall a chapter on How to Get Rich by Following Jesus. What I do recall is Jesus' admonition that his followers will be persecuted because of him. That we should lay up treasures in heaven, not on earth. That is is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven. That the love of money is the root of all evil. That blessed are the poor, and the meek will inherit the earth.

I agree that debt is not a good thing, but is it a sin? If it is, then Jesus died for our sins, so that "debt" is paid. I suspect that most people who are in trouble with debt are not in that position because they went on wild spending sprees at luxury stores with credit cards, but rather because they have been suckered in by the credit card industry and then suffered some misfortune: job loss, business decline, medical problems, disability, etc. Also to blame are high taxes, inflation and other governmental policies that have made it more expensive to live than in any other time.

(By the way, the Old Testament does specify that usury is a sin, and provides the Jubilee as a periodic relief from debt. Hear that, credit card companies?)

A more appropriate, compassionate site run by a Christian would expound on the theme that bad things can happen to good people, often through no fault of their own.