Christianity and Islam, part IV
Again, I profusely apologize for my failure to do more with my Islam and Christianity series during Lent. I have been bogged down in other things, and this has been put on the back burner. I have a lot of blog entries in my head, but sadly, they continue to stay there. One of the main points that I wanted to make in this series on a topic that I think Islam gets right and Christianity, at least in the Western modern form, has completely and/or conveniently forgotten is the idea of social justice and usury. In fact, usury in Western society has become so accepted as "business is business" that to look at newer definitions of the term in a secular dictionary, usury is defined as "the illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest ( source here )." Notice how the definition is couched in terms of "unreasonably high" interest. If one goes back a few centuries and looks at definitions of the term before modern finance, on...