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re: #56 wrenchwench

Juice running everything especially the banks how are we going to get it away from them I have an idea….

You know that book I’m reading that I keep talking about, and the whole Juice & the Bilderburg/bankers/moneylenders thing? It turns out that after the pogroms in Europe around the early Crusades, the Jews that were left were marginalized and could no longer make money as they’d previously done by trading and supplying the upper classes/nobility with luxury items (those positions were taken over by Christians).

The thing was, charging interest was forbidden for all three Abrahamic religions, so the Christians pushed the Jews into becoming moneylenders in order to keep their own hands clean. The upper classes were stingy and would only pay extremely low interest rates that didn’t allow the Jews to make enough income to survive, so they ended up lending to the businessmen & craftsmen, etc.—who desperately needed the loans—at higher rates.

I was kinda gob-smacked. It was like, “Wait—what? You guys effectively forced the Jews into money lending to keep yourselves free of sin, then turned around and called them greedy, eventually creating conspiracy theories about cabals of evil Jewish bankers controlling the world?” *thud*