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By: Queercents » Blog Archive » Religion and Money: A Brief History

Queercents » Blog Archive » Religion and Money: A Brief History — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:29:18 +0000

[...] ago, Nina posted commentary on a few other posts she’d read on religion and personal finance, much of the content of which [...]

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By: Nina

Nina — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:01:52 +0000

In this week's Carnival of the Insanities!

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By: Ellen

Ellen — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:18:34 +0000

We will all use our own values in ordering our lives. I think what's needed here is a call for clarity and integrity: are we using the values we say we are, the values we think we are? If we are paying honest attention to ourselves, the way we use money should have as much influence on our religion as vice-versa. It's a two-way flow of information telling us who we are.

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By: mapgirl

mapgirl — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:50:39 +0000

I loved living in the gay district in San Francisco and getting change back stamped with 'Gay Money'. It buys a coffee at any store in the country. Who's going to turn down gay money when it's fungible with straight money? No one.

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By: Larry Lennhoff

Larry Lennhoff — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:47:08 +0000

As a traditionally observant Jew, my religion certainly influences how I relate to money. The volume of the Talmud entitled Ethics of the Fathers quotes a rabbi as saying "Who is rich? He who is content with what he has." So some amount of my financial state is due to regulating my wants, as opposed to finding ways of satisfying them. Similarly, tzedakah (charity) is as standard a part of my monthly budget as the electric bill. The Jewish community to which I belong has several gemachs (specialized charity funds). My wife runs one - we loan out kosher kitchen sets to people who are trying to keep kosher until they can afford to buy two sets of dishes, pots, pans, etc. on their own. When I give personal loans to friends, I don't charge interest, as I can't charge interest on a loan to a Jew. More mundanely, the price of kosher meat is insanely high. The price of keeping up a kosher kitchen is high. It isn't easy for me to find kosher restaurants. All this things also impact my budget. I blog about this stuff occasionally, although personal finance is not one of the things that interests me. And I certainly don't think that non-Jews and atheists are lacking in either money skills or good intentions. It is just that the methods of implementing the latter are more open.

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