> news:9825515b-28b8-4a77-b931-8ef63cf554ce@j1g2000prb.googlegroups.com...
> On Aug 20, 7:44?am, Sanity <san...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Did you know that Jewish tax collectors used to stand outside the
> > > Catholic churches in Poland to collect tithes from the poor peasants
> > > and hand them over to the priests?
> > Russian authorities didn't want the stubborn Jews to mingle with their
> > obedient compliant peasants, who were basically slaves.

> 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?

> > Money changing has long been a Jewish occupation.

> 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.