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To: gitmo

Let’s see:
1 - Catholic Church bans its people from lending money but not from borrowing it
2 - So somebody needs to lend money to all these customers
3 - Jews step up
4 - Then they run all the banks
5 - Everybody hates them


11 posted on 02/25/2023 12:28:47 PM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu

I didn’t know the Catholic Church doesn’t allow lending.


12 posted on 02/25/2023 12:33:13 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: discostu

Thomas Sowell actually discusses this. Using the Jewish people for an example, ages ago it was considered loathsome to engage in the practice of money lending, banking, and so on. The Jews were more or less forced to go into that line of work because “good” people considered it beneath them. The Jews became great at it and so envy and hatred takes hold of the “good” people. They are forced to deal with who they consider the wretched members of society. It is the same with other races throughtout the years.


14 posted on 02/25/2023 12:41:49 PM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: discostu

That would have been real news to the devout Catholic banker Cosimo deMedici in the 1400s.


17 posted on 02/25/2023 12:49:28 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: discostu
A bit of hypocrisy there since Jewish bankers also employed usury on other Jews which is a no, no and people took notes. Coin clipping accusations did not help either and infuriated the populous. From a Christian POV they were grafted together as well, hence the Church's stance and cherry picking of the Law. A lot of Jewish people did not and that Christianity was counterfeit thus felt free to charge interest. Thus centuries of resentment took hold.
20 posted on 02/25/2023 12:54:18 PM PST by rollo tomasi
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To: discostu

You have posted erroneous claims.

1) You statement is incorrect. No, Jews do not run all the banks.

2) Historically, in Eastern Europe, Jews were barred from all the professions, so a small number of Jews became money lenders.

3)In Germany, in later centuries, for instance, Jews were required to convert to Christianity in order apply to enter a profession. Likely half of today’s Germans have some Jewish ancestors.

3) Christian hatred is rooted in Christian anti-Semitism and the claim of deicide.

4) Islamic hatred is likewise religious hatred - spelled out in the Koran.

5) Black anti-Semitism was incited, starting in the late 1960s, by the pushing of the Nation of Islam in the prisons. The Koran is filled with anti-Semitism.


32 posted on 02/25/2023 1:15:15 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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