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The Bible isn't vague on this one https://www.openbible.info/topics/usury
Very clear:
This one gives mixed signals:
Unfortunately most of these are easy to argue against if you're a morally bankrupt right wing Christian.
"It says when you lend money to the poor, but the kids going to college aren't poor. Just look at the kids these days, they always have money for iPhones and marijuanas."
"Well it's the government lending money, that Bible verse is just meant for individual people, from brother to brother" (this is the response from my dad when I asked why he wasn't Communist when the Bible teaches sharing money and not being greedy)
"These kids have to learn how the real world works, I mean how else will these companies survive if they can't charge interest?"
"I believe that but, as much as I want to, we can't change the law just for my religion!" (Proceeds to ignore this before and after because they truly have no shame and aren't affected or concerned by hypocrisy)
"If you're a Christian, surely you know the verse 'Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's... ' so these kids should be rendering all that interest to the people it belongs to"
Probably some other batshit crazy arguments. Our government sucks
The last part is pretty clear if you assume brother isn’t blood, but your group of people.
Don’t shit where you eat, but if you don’t eat there, shit away.
I guess now we know why people from and in the Middle East insist on offering you food when you visit..
From the viewpoint of a banker or politician, students are not "their group" of people, but foreigners...
Right. They’re the prey.
Sounds like those rules are just between Jews. Kinda like how there are different slavery rules depending on if the slave is Jewish or not.
The language for the last one is interesting, but I can see some merit to it. If I'm loaning to someone across the border, the distance for travel is really what the interest is charging on. It's a way to support global work while promoting local collaboration first.
Then it gets all manifest destiny and I get kind of at a loss.
“Oh but most of those were from Old Testament, and those are more rough guidelines. Christ brought new commandments.”
I believe Christ would still be flipping tables in the square.
When the Evangelicals started calling the teachings of Christ "too weak" I really hoped there'd be some people doing double takes. Just like the GOP, they stand for nothing.
Yup. So end result:
Only some specific flavor of evangelical christian is eligible and people need to convert if they want to have their loans dropped.