Usury

Date: 2002-11-25 06:11 am (UTC)
In the middle ages was used as an excuse at various times to exclude or persecute Jews - think Merchant of Venice.


Jewish people could go into the moneylending business, and lets be blunt here - peole borrow money when it suits them, regardless of belief. Even the crown. Then, maybe when everyone had run up a bit much debt or scapegoats were needed or something- well, whaddya know - let's burn the jews because they are evil usurers.

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