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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

If you want to understand why Europe didn’t like Jewish populations, it’s because for centuries Christianity didn’t allow charging another Christian interest.

The lords would borrow money from Jewish lenders to pay for wars since Christians couldn't loan with interest, and when the lenders wanted repayment the lords would declare a pogrom.

Graeber's "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" goes into this in a bit of detail about 2/3 of the way through.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's a book I recommend to people, "Debt: The First 5,000 Years”. 👍 https://bookwyrm.social/book/106743/s/debt-tenth-anniversary-edition

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The lords would borrow money from Jewish lenders to pay for wars since Christians wouldn’t loan without interest,

Literally the opposite....

The taking of interest was forbidden to clerics from AD 314. It was strictly forbidden for laymen in 1179. The beginning of the end as far as the total ban on interest was concerned came in the sixteenth century.

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1030,00.html

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's what I said, the Christians wouldn't loan because they couldn't charge interest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Christians wouldn’t loan without interest,

You used a double negative dawg...

What you said was:

Christians would loan with interest

That might not be what you meant to type, but that's what was typed.

Or you could have said:

since Christians wouldn’t loan because they couldn't loan without interest,

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

While that statement could be interpreted either way, I thought the context made it pretty clear what they meant

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My bad. Thanks for the correction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

No worries

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Wipe out your debt with this one weird trick!