Usura

Ringrazi a emergente come melma per precisare questo articolo dal lettore di UTNE su usura. È corto, in modo da controllilo fuori. Qui è un campione:

La morale di gran lunga più grande
la malvagità del nostro tempo è che cosa la bibbia denomina il sin dell'usura. È
molto base del sistema del capitalista. Ha fatto gli schiavi di debito di non
soltanto intero terzo mondo, ma anche la maggior parte del primo mondo, dove
i consumatori cercano ardentemente di ostacolarsi con il debito con accreditamento
schede ed ipoteche. Contemporaneamente la chiesa ha denominato l'usura “la regina di
sins " e rifiutato il sacrament ai relativi professionisti. Benchè abbia
ha abbandonato mai ufficialmente questa posizione morale, molto pochi cristiani
fuori del movimento di operaio cattolico abbia tutta l'idea che tale a
l'istruzione persino esiste.

Che cosa è l'usura? L'usura sta prestando qualcuno soldi e sta caricandoli interessare. Durante molta di storia della chiesa, l'usura è stata considerata sinful. Sembra che i protestants generalmente hanno non riescono a trattare l'usura con molta serietà, affidandola ai cattolici e ai neo-cattolici come C.S. Lewis per richiamare la materia.

Qui è alcuni riferimenti biblici all'usura (questo è giusto una sezione trasversale rapida):

Exodus 22:25 Se prestate i soldi ad uno della mia gente fra voi che sono needy, non sia come un chi presta denaro; carichilo nessun interesse.

Leviticus 25:36 - 37 Non prenda l'interesse affatto del genere da lui, ma temi il vostro dio, di modo che il vostro countryman può continuare a vivere fra voi. Non dovete prestarli soldi ad interesse o venderli alimento ad un profitto.

Deuteronomy 23:19 - 20 Non carichi il vostro interesse del fratello, se su soldi o alimento o niente altro che possono guadagnare l'interesse. You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a brother Israelite, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.

Nehemiah 5:6-11 When I heard their outcry and these charges, I was very angry. I pondered them in my mind and then accused the nobles and officials. I told them, "You are exacting usury from your own countrymen!" So I called together a large meeting to deal with them and said: "As far as possible, we have bought back our Jewish brothers who were sold to the Gentiles. Now you are selling your brothers, only for them to be sold back to us!" They kept quiet, because they could find nothing to say.
So I continued, "What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our Gentile enemies? I and my brothers and my men are also lending the people money and grain. But let the exacting of usury stop! Give back to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves and houses, and also the usury you are charging them-the hundredth part of the money, grain, new wine and oil."

Psalm 15

LORD , who may dwell in your sanctuary?
Who may live on your holy hill?

He whose walk is blameless
and who does what is righteous,
who speaks the truth from his heart
and has no slander on his tongue,
who does his neighbor no wrong
and casts no slur on his fellowman,
who despises a vile man
but honors those who fear the LORD ,
who keeps his oath
even when it hurts,
who lends his money without usury
and does not accept a bribe against the innocent.

He who does these things
will never be shaken.

Ezekiel 16:5-8

"Suppose there is a righteous man
who does what is just and right.
He does not eat at the mountain shrines
or look to the idols of the house of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor’s wife
or lie with a woman during her period.
He does not oppress anyone,
but returns what he took in pledge for a loan.
He does not commit robbery
but gives his food to the hungry
and provides clothing for the naked.
He does not lend at usury
or take excessive interest.
He withholds his hand from doing wrong
and judges fairly between man and man.

Can anyone tell me a good reason why Christians practice usury? It seems that most people assume that capitalism is a good, and since it depends upon things like usury, we shouldn’t be critical of usury. Though the passages above are dealing with Israel, it seems, at the very least, Christians shouldn’t charge interest to one another. I would also argue that we shouldn’t charge interest for others. It is an oppressive system that the church should alleviate. Some churches that have started credit unions. Some churches help people buy homes or pay for college with no interest loans. But the Church should no longer blindly accept a practice that is clearly non-Christian.

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