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    6 months ago

    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

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        6 months ago

        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,