It was not illegal in Christendom. The Catholic schoolmen created a...
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Mar 22, 2025
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It was not illegal in Christendom. The Catholic schoolmen created a legalistic distinction between usury & “charing interest on debts” & sanctioned the latter. To this day this casuistry persists in the Church.
RyanD ♠️@Ryavery73
@Logo_Daedalus Wait… you’re saying humans have always schemed for profit and isn’t just the Jews? Bold and brave. Lol It was illegal in Christiandom for over a millenia and it’s illegal for Jews to charge interest to one another. No idea what point your trying to make
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Whoever told you that usury was illegal in christendom lied to you. The Catholic Church has sanctioned usury & protected usurers since the persecution of the Donatists.
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“The popes recognized that if they were going to go to war, they needed to organize war financing (as explained above), and that called for reversing the most basic teaching of Jesus and his early Christian followers. Rome had to change the Christian opposition to usury because the merchant families who became bankers financing the papacy’s wars insisted on charging it. The Schoolmen, Christian academics, created a scholastic difference between interest and usury. Usury was redefined as “interest” when Christians charged it, at least for purposes blessed by Rome, headed by war loans.
The popes recognized that if they were going to go to war, they needed to organize war financing (as explained above), and that called for reversing the most basic teaching of Jesus and his early Christian followers. Rome had to change the Christian opposition to usury because the merchant families who became bankers financing the papacy’s wars insisted on charging it. The Schoolmen, Christian academics, created a scholastic difference between interest and usury. Usury was redefined as “interest” when Christians charged it, at least for purposes blessed by Rome, headed by war loans.”
-Hudson
The popes recognized that if they were going to go to war, they needed to organize war financing (as explained above), and that called for reversing the most basic teaching of Jesus and his early Christian followers. Rome had to change the Christian opposition to usury because the merchant families who became bankers financing the papacy’s wars insisted on charging it. The Schoolmen, Christian academics, created a scholastic difference between interest and usury. Usury was redefined as “interest” when Christians charged it, at least for purposes blessed by Rome, headed by war loans.”
-Hudson