Islam, Christianity and Judaism all basically forbid charging interest on capital that is lent to people.
During my career as a student I took a few economic classes and came to the opinion that money is a pretty stupid idea.
Money is an imaginary made up of thing that should represent real value but often it does not. Capital does not represent value or the real cost of doing business. Let me explain as quickly as I can with a quote from a hat that I love to wear, so much so that the hat is faded and pretty rough looking.
You can’t eat money
a quote on Johns favorite ball cap
The ball cap quote is part of a bigger quote that is more profound and really demonstrates how stupid money is as an idea.
When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money
Alanis Obomsawin
Humanity seems to have the worst priorities among all animals. Humans actually are animals so my previous statement should read that, “when it comes to life and the earth, Humans are the animals that, have the worst priories.” Humans have put an imaginary made up thing over a clean and sustainable earth, over the welfare of living beings and humans partake in decadent over consumption at a rate that is not seen in any other species.
You will almost never see another animal species hoard a resource the way that a human does even the beavers dams and the ant hill are nothing compared with how humans hoard and consume food, and other natural resources. It is the hoarding and over consumption that have thrown the world into what seems to be an ecological disaster that may not be recoverable, unless we as a species learn from the other animals to re prioritize and learn quickly.
We can do it! We have good examples of stewardship all around us.
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Jesus Christ
The Corrigan Encore 
I appreciate the quote of Jesus at the end, which is part of a larger discussion he had with his followers. Your comments about money also track really well with what he said in that section – no one can serve both God and money. We have a choice. He also specifically says that hoarding is a worthless endeavor. His reason is pretty simple: where your treasure is, there is your heart as well.
Also, I love how, in that passage, he gives encouragement, several times, with the words “do not be anxious” – but then says instead seek God first and everything else will fall into place.
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Thanks David.
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