{"id":9681,"date":"2017-02-11T22:12:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T22:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/sadly-the-church-basically-lost-the-struggle\/"},"modified":"2017-02-11T22:12:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T22:12:15","slug":"sadly-the-church-basically-lost-the-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/sadly-the-church-basically-lost-the-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sadly, the Church basically lost the struggle against usury. This failure helped make the terrible cruelties of the conquistadors possible. And it also helped make possible the capitalist economic system which we have today, financed largely by interest bearing loans. Capitalism\u2019s ability to make Christian religion \u201cseem frivolous in comparison\u201d to the imperative of economic growth is one of the main sources of the secularization of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"https:\/\/sancrucensis.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/30\/david-graeber-on-usury-and-the-psychology-of-the-conquistadors\/\">David Graeber on Usury and the Psychology of the Conquistadors<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/azspot.net\/\">azspot<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, the Church basically lost the struggle against usury. This failure helped make the terrible cruelties of the conquistadors possible. And it also helped make possible the capitalist economic system which we have today, financed largely by interest bearing loans. Capitalism\u2019s ability to make Christian religion \u201cseem frivolous in comparison\u201d to the imperative of economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2w9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}