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Fred Clark<\/a> has a great blog post, pointing out that, in most cases, saying \u201cthe Bible says\u201d involves ignoring those places where the Bible says something else different from what it says in the passage you cited.<\/p>\n

But there seems to be one exception, which the Bible is consistent about: usury, i.e. the charging of interest on loans. Fred writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting, then, that this biblical clarity does not translate into Christian teaching, belief, practice or politics. \u201cThe Bible is really clear about usury,\u201d but nearly every Christian, church, denomination, etc., clearly takes the opposite position from what the Bible really clearly says.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also his follow-up post, \u201cHow I learned to stop clobber-texting and love George Bailey<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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