Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "Rudolf Jung - the Karl Marx of Hitler's National Socialism?" video.

Shows how little grasp people like Jung and Hitler had on history that they blame the Jews for creating banking and capitalism. In actual fact, coinage did not appear in the Middle East until around 600BC in the area of Lydia, in modern Turkiye. At the time that coinage appeared the Jews were in the midst of the Babylonian Exile, and were actually slaves in Mesopotamia until 538BC. After that, they just had enough time to rebuild Jerusalem before being overrun by Alexander the Great. They were then suppressed by the Greeks until they fought a really nasty war against the Seleucid Empire to liberate themselves from a tyrannical regime (167BC to 160BC). Then the Romans invaded and set up Herod as their ruler. When Herod died the entire nation was split between Herod's sons. If Jung and Hitler really wanted to blame someone for capitalism, they should have been blaming the pagan Phoenicians and Carthaginians. They were the original capitalists. All the time the Jews were fighting for survival the Phoenicians and Carthaginians were trading with anyone and everyone in the Mediterranean. If you had a pulse, they would try to trade with you.
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TIK gets the whole issue with the money changers in the Temple all wrong. The issue was not the fact they were changing standard currency into temple money, but that they were ripping off people when they did this. The whole temple scam ran like this. If you brought a lamb to be sacrificed, you would have it examined by a priest. The priest would invariably find a blemish, so you would have to buy a temple lamb. But you could only buy a temple lamb using temple currency, so the money changers would change your denarii (or other coins) into Tyrian shekels, at an exorbitant exchange rate. You could then buy the temple-supplied lamb. Meanwhile, the lamb you brought was then likely used to gouge the next person coming to make a sacrifice at the temple. Is it any wonder that Jesus overturned the moneychangers' tables and chased the livestock out of the temple? I too would be mad at seeing poor people being taken advantage of in this manner. Also, if Jesus and early Christians were so dead set against money, why are so many parables ABOUT money and using it wisely?
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