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Old 05-16-14, 03:12 PM   #4
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They [jews] are creditors for millennia, as the Christian and Muslim religion prohibited to lend money for interest.
However what should they have done, since they were furthermore prohibited from other normal jobs, like blacksmith or whatever. They founded banks, and did take interest.

Banks are not very popular, especially if you lent money from them and have to pay it back. With interest.

Right, Christians were forbidden to take interest by their religion back then. But this has changed, if anyone did not recognize, every good capitalistic christian working for a bank nowadays, does not seem to care very much. As well jews are meanwhile allowed to practise any job they want.
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