Topic: Take a wild guess after this analogy, please?

Anonymous A started this discussion 7 years ago #84,499

Far back in time when catholics imposed all kinds of rules in Europe, Jewish people benefited greatly through one specific catholic rule, that you can't lend money with interests unless you're lending to a foreigner or a person of different faith. This meant that people who knew they could make a profit, if only they had some capital, could fortunately turn to the Jewish but nobody else and vice versa.

So a (catholic) rule which was meant to protect a certain (catholics) group, significantly disadvantaged them, in this case at finance. What rules are there today which do the same thing?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 14 minutes later[^] [v] #970,750

> So a (catholic) rule which was meant to protect a certain (catholics) group

You know that whole usury thing comes from the Old Testament, right? No one just decided to scribble it in there one day as a measure to protect Catholics.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 4 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #970,751

@previous (B)

That's not what I meant to say though. The point is that at a certain time period, it was suddenly a rule to impose.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 6 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #970,804

@OP
> So a (catholic) rule which was meant to protect a certain (catholics) group,
> What rules are there today

For the Catholics their rule has always been to allow clergy all the way up to the Pope, to practice pedophilia.

And of course to protect the clergy against public disclosure and prosecution.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 4 hours later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #970,867

> NB4 TG comes and gives a 2 hour lecture.

Minichan