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... Arguably Christianity had to "find" a way to reconcile itself with usury in order to usher in the modern world of material comfort. Arguably whenever Bible believers use their credit card, get paid interest on a cash bond or in a bank, they do a Thomas Jefferson and cut out those verses of the Bible which suggest it's sin. (Or do Bible believers repeatedly confess this as a sin?)
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/aquinas-usury.html
I think you'll find what we now call "opportunity cost" implicit in there.
Tom,
Many thanks for the link. I suspected that's where Aquinas came down.
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