[miss marmelstein]

Indeed I do. And I am NOT ok with usuary unless, like everything else, the word has been dumbed down to mean paying interest rates at all.

[mlo]

"Indeed I do. And I am NOT ok with usuary unless, like everything else, the word has been dumbed down to mean paying interest rates at all."

It's the opposite. The biblical sense of "usuary" is simply charging interest. It has been "dumbed down" to mean unreasonable interest in modern times because a total prohibition against interest is incredibly backwards.