Payday Loans Are Business; Scripture Has No Place (Pt. 5)

Badly conceived attack on freedom
This is the conclusion of my look at Lawrence Meyers’ critique of Graves and Peterson’s biased academic screed “Usury Law and the Christian Right: Faith Based Political Power and the Geography of the American Payday Loan Regulation.” CLICK HERE if you missed the last segment of [...]

Payday Loan | Christian Right and Usury in Theory and Practice (Part 2)

This is the conclusion of “Payday Loan | Christian Right and Usury in Theory and Practice.”
If you missed the beginning, CLICK HERE.
Yet as Peterson and Graves see it, there is some divergence. Some Old Testament passages appear to state that Hebrews were permitted to make interest-bearing payday loans to non-Jews, [...]

Jeremy Bentham

Payday Loan | Christian Right and Usury in Theory and Practice

In the academic study “Usury Law and the Christian Right: Faith Based Political Power and the Geography of the American Payday Loan Regulation,” Christopher Peterson of the University of Utah and Steven Graves of California State Northridge show via collected empirical data that there’s something quite surprising about the distribution [...]

Of Usury, from Brants Stultifera Navis