Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "" video.

  1. What I have found through study, is that there are bad people in every group and ethnicity, and one group is just as guilty as the other. People from one group vilifies the other, without looking at the history of their own group. People blame the group in question for communism, which is completely false. That actually had its origins in Protestant religion, where the group in concern later adopted those beliefs in the Pale of Settlement over the way they were being treated by the Czar. Christian communalism, which originated with the monasteries, was where the idea for the kibbutzim came from. It goes back to the old fight between Christianity and their religion, and especially about usury. It was the Christians that started the anti-capitalist movement over banking and usury, as capitalism is based upon banking, borrowing, and mercantilism.
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  2.  @mesolithicman164  Believe it or not, the entire fight hinged on interest rates. The Catholic Church finally obtained an edict about controlling interest rates, which I believe were set at around 5%. Before that, the rates could be anything, with some up to 50%. The Catholic Church was responsible for the reform with the Mount of Piety, which was a pawnbroker/bank that gave low interest loans to the poor. The borrowers offered valuables as collateral, making it more of a pawn shop than a bank. The church wasn't against banking as a whole, though some sects were. They were against high interest rates by lenders, and not making loans easily available to the poor. Though they did use usury as an excuse to remove a certain ethnicity who were lenders. "In 1462, the first recorded Monte di Pietà was founded in Perugia. Between 1462 and 1470, an estimated forty more were developed. The Franciscan Marco di Matteo Strozzi preached about the benefits of a Monte di Pietà in combating usury. He left a set of memoirs that outlined his goal to rid the city of J*** money lenders and to replace them with Christian pawn shops which allowed the poor to acquire cheap credit." In reality, a lender is a lender, no matter the religion, and both sides have been involved in it since that time.
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  3.  @samizdat113  I thought the same, myself.
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