The Secret World by Abu Esa Al-Kanadi
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PROGRESS AND CHRISTIANITY<br />
Usury<br />
Usury according to Christianity is forbidden, so those figures<br />
exercising power in the economy had an interest in the<br />
deterioration of the Church’s authority. Those interested in the<br />
establishment of a banking system, to reap the profits of usury,<br />
needed to pick away at the power of the Church. By<br />
weakening the Church’s authority through its various<br />
methods of dispensing propaganda, the people’s growing<br />
desire for loans, the pressure to conform to an increasingly<br />
interest oriented business world, and the Church’s own<br />
corrupted tendencies, they managed to force the Church to<br />
yield on its stance against usury.<br />
Spiritual Influence<br />
It had been necessary to eliminate Christianity, not only<br />
because of its hindrance as a potent political body, but as well<br />
because of its influence over the mentalities of the Europeans.<br />
To create a citizen geared to optimum levels of production,<br />
citizens would have to be hard working. <strong>The</strong> best slave is the<br />
hard-working one. Secondly he would have to be motivated to<br />
spend everything he earns on products that manufacturers<br />
make to sell. <strong>The</strong>refore, it would be necessary to inculcate<br />
greed. <strong>The</strong> other-worldliness of Christianity stood in the way<br />
such indoctrination.<br />
Discrediting Christianity<br />
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