The official explanation for Jewish power and the counter-argument to the idea of a Jewish conspiracy. How does /pol/ look at it?

1. Right on the face of it, doesn't it sound like bullshit that Christians simply handed over control of money to Jews because of what was, in practice, a relatively minor sin?
2. Weren't most Jews religious themselves?
3. Lending money isn't even a sin. Usury may be but, contrary to what the argument implies, it's not like all lending was usury
4. And if you say nearly all lending was evil, exploitative usury and it was almost exclusively done by Jews century after century, isn't it then only reasonable to assume this, if nothing else, took some toll on Jews and their behavior and that it lends (no pun intended) some truth to the stereotypes?
5. Assuming Christians did put Jews in that position, how do you know those Christian lawmakers weren't already under Jewish influence or even Jews themselves? Doesn't this just sound like another plot? It's literally a Jewish religion anyway
6. And even if we accept this whole explanation, at best it shows that Jews weren't always conspiring; it doesn’t prove they aren't doing so today