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On Aug 20, 7:44?am, Sanity <san...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ah, so now you should be noting that the love of
freedom is basically something we get from the Jews,
right, rather than being some "white race" thing?

However, it was not by any means an "exclusively"
Jewish occupation until two things happened in
Europe, both caused by the Christian church (and its
lay members) of the day:

1. Jews were increasingly shut out of other occupations
through restrictions placed upon them by the ruling
authorities, generally at the urging of the church, while
at the same time,

2. The Church issued strict prohibitions against its
members lending money at interest.

It is also of great importance to note that traditionally,
it was the JEWS who were prohibited, by their own teachings
and law, from lending money at interest; it was only when
the restrictions were placed upon them as noted in (1),
and they could not legally engage in other means of earning
a living, that the rabbis relaxed this restriction (at least in
dealing with Gentiles).  The alternative would have been to
let their people starve for lack of any ability to earn an
income, through strict enforcement of these traditional laws.

As usual, Krusty remembers only those bits of history which
support his own prejudices.

Bob M.