• SabinStargem
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    6 days ago

    Kinda like how Jews tended to be bankers and other financial staff, because other religions refused to handle moneylending. Many hypocrites hated the Jew’s acquisition of wealth, when said hypocrites refused to do the work.

    • teft@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      5 days ago

      They didn’t refuse to be money lenders. Christians were religiously prohibited from money lending as you needed to charge usury to make a living lending money and usury is forbidden in christianity but not in judaism.