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People also use profanity, work on their rest days, drink alcohol, eat pork and shellfish, covet other people's things, and do lots of other things they're not
by kungtotte 7y ago
People also use profanity, work on their rest days, drink alcohol, eat pork and shellfish, covet other people's things, and do lots of other things they're not supposed to according to their religion.
- dpark 7y agoPeople do lots of things that they acknowledge are against their religion. However I’ve never heard a Christian (or Jew for that matter) tell me that their religion prohibits lending or that it’s a sin. It’s not that they simply do it anyway, but that they aren’t even supposed to avoid it. In this respect it seems that lending isn’t like consuming pork for Jews but like drinking caffeine for Christians.
- apta 7y agoIt could simply be that they are not aware that it's prohibited. If you look up early Christianity, they definitely loathed money lending due to interest.
- dpark 7y agoIf you look at modern Christianity, they don’t. You cannot hold a religion to an outdated set of beliefs they do not hold themselves to.
- apta 7y agoThere are Christians today that still uphold the rules in the Old Testament (e.g. not eating pork), as early Christianity still followed Judaic law before straying away from those teachings.